Most of the states that first endorsed the Common Core academic standards are still using them in some form, despite continued debate over... Read More

These days, it doesn't seem like there's much our politicians agree on. Partisanship in Washington has reached the highest levels in decades.... Read More

Teachers in traditional district schools are three times more likely to be chronically absent from the classroom than those in charters... Read More

Last Month, Illinois passed a new school funding formula that would dramatically alter the state's education finance system, and gave... Read More

There are more nonwhite teachers than there used to be. But the nation's teaching force still doesn't look like America. One former education... Read More

Last month, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Justice Department was preparing to begin “investigating and suing universities... Read More

Let's take a bicoastal tour of one week in campus insanity. Out west, Berkeley had to spend approximately $600,000 to guarantee the safety of... Read More

Lipscomb University President Randy Lowry apologized again Monday after discussion over a dinner he hosted for African-American students last... Read More

For debt-ridden Americans in federal student loan forgiveness programs, October is a month of hope and trepidation. The first wave of college... Read More

With its recent adoption of a tax credit scholarship program, Illinois became the 18th state to adopt an innocuously named — but highly... Read More

In school choice circles, a lot of people don't much care for actor Matt Damon, at least his education politics. (I'm not sure where they... Read More

Supporters of school vouchers had hoped that the time was ripe for the Supreme Court to deliver a death blow to Blaine Amendments—the... Read More

Here's the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants “safe spaces,” or otherwise conflating mere words with physical... Read More

To the list of forbidden ideas on American college campuses, add “bourgeois norms”—hard work, self-discipline, marriage and... Read More

An estimated 250 million children around the world cannot read, write, or demonstrate basic arithmetic skills. UNESCO estimates that the... Read More

When President Trump nominated Betsy DeVos, a woman with no degree or experience in education, as U.S. Secretary of Education, defenders of... Read More

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has faced some big challenges in her more-than six months in office—setbacks in Congress on her... Read More

The Education Department has offered its stamp of approval for the controversial sale of two massive for-profit colleges, Kaplan University... Read More

Monday marks the final deadline by which nearly all states must have submitted a K-12 accountability plan to the Department of Education,... Read More

The top Democrats on education issues in Congress say that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' oversight of states' new plans for... Read More

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos supports vouchers that allow parents to use taxpayer funds to help pay private-school tuition for their... Read More

When the first Cristo Rey high school opened in Chicago's low-income, Latino neighborhood of Pilsen, in 1996, it included a work-study... Read More

For families across the country, child care is now an expense that rivals rent or mortgage payments. Democrats want to make it an... Read More

These days, the news is full of sensational stories of violent campus mobs shutting down conservative speakers and freaked-out college... Read More

The world's developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to... Read More