The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in post-pandemic recovery. In a decade, Mississippi moved from 49th to seventh ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at closing the Education Department at the White House in March. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

In 2021, a Tennessee high school teacher named Matthew Hawn was fired after assigning readings about white privilege and discussing race in his class—topics some parents said violated the state’s new ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. It ...

Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies. By Michael C. Bender The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue ...

The Department of Education on Tuesday announced a further dismantling of the agency by transferring much of its remaining workload to other federal agencies in a bid to convince Congress the ...

WASHINGTON – Families and educators across the country were plunged into a state of uncertainty over the weekend after the federal Education Department laid off practically every staffer in the ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union ...

The U.S. Department of Education announced a partnership Wednesday with more than 40 conservative organizations to create programming around civics aimed at the celebration of the 250th anniversary of ...

Education has been and can continue to be at the center of global poverty reduction The world economy has experienced a remarkable transformation over the past four decades. Global GDP per capita ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nick Ladany writes about reimagining higher education. From the printing press to typewriters to personal computers to the ...

Public education in the U.S. is under attack. Whether at the local, state or federal level, political and religious groups have pushed for funding cuts while diverting more money to private-school ...