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Mikey Peterson didn’t care about class for most of his time in school. And he felt that his teachers, for the most part, did nothing to help....
Nick Anderson didn’t have to be asked twice to get on a train to New York City....
To some, Head Start is an essential yet underfunded part of the education system. To others, it’s a classic example of a bloated federal program...
With President Trump’s proposed federal budget calling for cuts in after-school programing, the nonprofit advocacy group Afterschool Alliance released an issu...
Kentucky Commissioner of Education Stephen Pruitt recently said his state is developing a system that “blurs the lines between career and technical education ...
The rapid improvement over the past decade in Washington, D.C.’s district-run schools — as measured by rising test scores and graduation rates — has drawn...
Free speech has once again become a highly charged issue on college campuses....
Plans to expand school choice from President Donald Trump may be generating a lot of attention — but they should be taken with a dose of political reality, an...
The first education secretary, former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Shirley Hufstedler, was appointed by President Carter in the fall of 1979 and addressed EWA me...
