One young woman, who confessed she is majoring in elementary education, suggested the US won independence from Spain during ...

President Donald Trump’s bold plan to eliminate the Department of Education bureaucracy and return education policy to the ...

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The federal government has often led the way in reform, and only some states have shown the capacity to take over.

The book under review, by Dr. Eve Ewing of the University of Chicago, is a manifesto arguing for educational abolitionism: ...

Sociologist Eve L. Ewing joins The Excerpt to discuss her new book “Original Sins,” which argues that schools enforce racial hierarchies.

While big questions about the agency’s future remain unanswered, here is everything to know about its history, and some of ...

Without the department, advocates worry the federal government would not look out in the same way for poor students, those ...

the president stripped apart the centralized authority overseeing the American educational system on Thursday, marking the end of a 45-year-old institution. “Today we take a very historic action ...

Parents have been demanding more control over their children’s education, leading to a surge in school choice programs, ...

Many in higher education worry Trump’s efforts to bend academia to his will could end American leadership in research and ...