Even if the department isn’t getting abolished, Trump has moved key programs to other agencies. The day after Trump signed ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for ...

At the end of the day, reinvention is the work of solving problems, not dreaming up cool-sounding ideas or marketable ...

Michael Thomas Duffy is the President of the GO Tutor Corps, a non-profit organization that envisions an America where every ...

In contrast, hardly anyone thinks ESSA’s accountability provisions are doing much to drive school improvement. This is in ...

Paul E. Peterson interviews Steven Wilson, author of The Lost Decade: Returning to the Fight for Better Schools in America ...

The latest Nation’s Report Card dashed hopes that U.S. students might have finally closed pandemic learning gaps. The results show reading scores are down nationally in both 4th and 8th grade, ...

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Last Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education launched historic, unprecedented layoffs. While the specifics remained murky at week’s end, reports suggest that the cuts will eliminate close to half of ...

Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now under legal scrutiny in a suit by parents. At the beginning of the 2023–24 ...

Trump administration officials announced on Tuesday evening that it is laying off 1,300 employees at the U.S. Department of Education. This is on top of nearly 600 people who had already taken early ...