The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy and its ...

A recent report from the American Enterprise Institute summarizes results from the most recent National Assessment of ...

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

Aldeman: Knowledge is good; education is better. Teachers & tests are important. Parents deserve honest info. School choice ...

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

Actually eliminating the U.S. Department of Education — which administers billions of dollars in funding to schools — would ...

Last week, the U.S. education system was upended — and it all began with a scoop from Jake Offenhartz. The week prior, ...

“Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them. Today, American reading and math scores are near ...

Advocates for public schools and teachers said eliminating the DOE would be a disaster that would leave children behind in an American education system that’s fundamentally unequal.

The NAEP results make clear that American students have failed to bounce back despite the infusion of over $180 billion in federal money aimed at “rescuing” our education system from the ...

The Civil War—the Second American Revolution—was necessary to secure education rights for black people and many poor whites while expanding the system nationwide. After the defeat of the ...