Just days after Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed the state's budget with massive cuts to education funding, Wisconsin's teachers are on the chop...
Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump has identified criminal wrongdoing in the investigation of John B. Barranco, the Merrimack Special Educati...
We all want students to get great jobs and lead happy lives. But pretending that a piece of paper is all that's needed to do this is something we can no longer do. We need to stop telling students they've got to have a degree and instead tell them they've got to learn.
As Texas lawmakers prepare to cut billions in education funding and give school districts a heavier hand in determining teacher pay, the state's educa...
In one English classroom here, Delcastle Technical High School teacher Nicole Irani experimented over the past few weeks with open- and closed-book q...
In a state with one of the largest achievement gaps, Democrats say Minnesota's education funding bill ostensibly takes aim at programs for disadvantag...
The conjunction of the American right's cultural and budgetary crusades created traps into which middle class voters and higher education officials have fallen again and again.
Last year Mark Zuckerberg invited four hundred of his closest friends, many of them Silicon Valley's movers and shakers, for a screening of "Waiting f...
Predicating education financing on California's legislators busy posturing on the budget for re-election or on voter emotions in June of 2011 is looking more and more like a bad bet.
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans filed a bill Friday evening proposing $60 billion in spending cuts for current levels and hundreds of millions of doll...
Prince is moving into arts philanthropy in a big way, with a particular focus on arts programs for the younger generation. Before he performed at New ...
There was no good news about the future of state support for K-12 schools at the Joint Budget Committee's Friday briefing on the Department of Educa...
We hear politicians talk about priorities all the time, especially leading up to elections, but once elected, the priorities suddenly shift and I wonder if they were ever really there in the first place.
Recently Teresa Lubbers, Indiana's Higher Education Commissioner announced that colleges and universities should expect more funding to be tied to per...
As Republican candidates gain dozens of seats in the House, claiming a majority over Democrats, education leaders wonder how the shift will impact fed...
As millions of Americans filled out their midterm ballots, they had difficult decisions to make about K-12 education policy in their respective states...
The results of today's midterm elections -- which are expected to reflect voters' frustration with the protracted economic downturn and wariness in ma...