To live near a school on the Peninsula with tip-top test scores, home buyers are paying $200,000 or more than they would for a similar house in a nearby neighborhood or city with good, but perhaps not ...

First, a brief refresher on what a credit score is: It’s an algorithm designed to predict your likelihood of repaying debt. Lenders use your score to determine whether to approve you for loans and ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Waving a yardstick in the air to get everyone's attention, Sophelia Sykes began a review with her kindergarten students. “Letters and sounds now,” Sykes said, adding with a smile, ...

LESSON.LY: $5 million to Indianapolis-based Lesson.ly in a Series A round led by OpenView Venture Partners. The startup, founded in 2012, offers “bite-size” lessons and assessments aimed at helping ...

The world of education is a fuzzy one, with some declaring that teaching is more art than science. But then the National Assessment of Educational Progress is issued. “The Nation’s Report Card” is ...

Want to improve your credit score? Try taking a page from the best. Credit scorer FICO recently reviewed the profiles of consumers it calls high achievers—those with scores in the 750-to-850 range.

CAUGHT UP IN ANOTHER round of saber-rattling with City Hall, schools Chancellor Ramon Cortines need only read his own press to see where he must focus his energy and effort: Not in hapless turf ...