President Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Jan.

With the Obama administration waiving New Jersey from No Child Left Behind, the state was in effect given the green light for its own plan for how public schools will be monitored, assisted, and in the case of those that don't improve, overhauled and potentially shut down.

There is an interesting and alarming New York Times story on the growing educational divide between rich and poor kids.

Duke admits black students with SAT scores on average over one standard deviation below those of whites and Asians .

West Virginia is considering expanding a teacher evaluation pilot program in order to seek a waiver from the constraints of a federal education law.