Alumni and other supporters created a foundation to help save Xavier Prep after it was announced that it would close at the end of the 2012-2013 school year.The Xavier Prep Foundation Fund hopes to ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest some $34 million in cooperative initiatives designed to improve teacher-preparation programs’ overall effectiveness. The Seattle-based philanthropy ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching unveiled a 5-year, $3- million initiative this month that will bring together some of the nation’s top scholars to examine how teacher education ...

John Palfrey, who has led Phillips Academy Andover for the past seven years, will become president of the $7 billion grant maker on September 1. He also serves as chairman of the board at the John S.