By Katie Ash, Edweek, June 16, 2010

After watching her son struggle in traditional and alternative public school settings, Ladona Strouse decided to try something new for the 11th grader: cyber schooling.

“To be honest, it was not our first choice,” she says, but Kyle, who struggles with bipolar disorder as well as a brain injury, was disruptive in school and was not getting the support he needed to be successful in a traditional education setting.

By Lawrence Messina, Bloomberg Business Week, May 25, 2010

West Virginia's metropolitan areas could pump up their economies by millions of dollars if they drive down the dropout rates at their public schools, new research suggests.

The Washington, D.C. based Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that keeping half those children in school would increase annual incomes by a combined $17.3 million for the Charleston, Huntington, Morgantown, Weirton and Wheeling metro areas.

By Greg Toppo, USA Today, May 21, 2010

PHILADELPHIA — The day has barely begun here at Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, a middle school in the city's northeast corner, and Adam Jackson already is using his cellphone, hoping to get a parent on the other end.

The north Philadelphia native, 22, is an unlikely truant officer in an experiment to get more city kids to graduate from high school.

By Madhulika Sikka, NPR, May 19, 2010

In a small Pakistani village, near the Grand Trunk Road, a group of women is gathered in the home of their teacher.  The women are shy and clearly a little overwhelmed as we enter the room.  Their heads, covered of course, look down, and they are all nervously clutching a white rolled-up piece of paper.