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 ...

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

Historically, student protest has been a vital force for change in America — whether against segregation, the Vietnam War or apartheid in South Africa. As Nihad Awad, national executive director of ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump fulfilled a key campaign promise when he signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Department ...

We blame all this on cellphones and TikTok. Such a system is the opposite of “world class education.” For over 30 years American education has stagnated. That public education has not ...

This will not end education as we know it in America. The department has been a Republican bugbear ever since it was created ...

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