Education

Students line up to vote at a campus polling place at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.

How House Democrats revamped their college outreach in a bid to win back youth voters

Ramsey Touchberry · October 28, 2026 12:50 pm

education teachers public schools

Divisive concepts and those who teach them

Pete Hegseth

Hegseth announces dismantling of Chinese ‘sleeper organizations’ at universities

Debt Collective student loan borrowers lead chants in protest outside of the Department of Education.

DOJ drops appeal of student loan forgiveness ruling

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Hochul voices support for Mamdani’s universal childcare effort: ‘Whatever it takes’

Officials at the liberal University of California, Berkeley again asked conservative author Ann Coulter to speak at the school after initially canceling the April 27 event, both parties confirmed in statements Thursday evening. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives hold campus lectures to educate, not provoke

Emily Jashinsky April 20, 2017 11:05 pm

The Education Department announced that former Bush aide Josh Venable has been hired as DeVos's chief of staff. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Former Jeb Bush staffers taking over the Education Department

Daniel Chaitin April 12, 2017 10:16 pm

Clinton's speech boosted Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to offer tuition-free scholarship for middle-class New Yorkers. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Hillary Clinton urges students and businesses to move to New York

Daniel Chaitin April 12, 2017 4:12 pm

Stand up for free speech even when you disagree with the speech. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Free speech on college campuses continues to fall victim to politically correct craziness

Cliff Maloney April 12, 2017 12:00 am

The just-released 17th edition of the Center for Education Reform's yearly scorecard of state charter school laws once again finds the Arizona charter law right up there at the top of the list, one of only two states (plus the District of Columbia) to receive an —œA—? this year. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

Arizona is leading the nation with great charter schools, but for how much longer?

Jeanne Allen April 11, 2017 8:19 pm

New York keeps losing people in spite of multiple special tax breaks and other corporate welfare initiatives by Cuomo. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

New York’s ‘indentured servitude’ model of free tuition

David Freddoso April 11, 2017 5:17 pm

There is no meaningful evidence that PBS gives preference to libertarian or conservative programming. (Flickr)

Why shouldn’t PBS air a documentary series on educational freedom?

Neal McCluskey April 10, 2017 4:01 pm

"Let's celebrate New York State getting something important done that we wanted to do nationally." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Hillary Clinton cheers ‘a great step for progressives’ with New York’s tuition-free college program

Madeleine Morgenstern April 8, 2017 4:51 pm

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey talks with a 6th grader at a school choice event. Ducey signed "a major school voucher expansion bill" on Friday. (AP Photo/Bob Christie)

Arizona didn’t pass school vouchers, but it did go bold on school choice

Jason Russell April 7, 2017 3:56 pm

Education secretary Betsy DeVos visits Pitbull’s charter school

Education secretary Betsy DeVos visits Pitbull’s charter school

Caitlin Yilek April 6, 2017 6:47 pm

At two-thirds of "top" ranked schools, even history majors are not required to take a course in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Academic amnesia: Why Is WWI disappearing in higher education?

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill April 6, 2017 4:06 am

Regrettably for DeVos, the secretary of education cannot directly implement the president's education policies. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Teachers’ union contracts likely to tie hands of new education secretary

Terry Pell April 5, 2017 5:58 pm