“America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure.” So wrote a high school student from ...

Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes in the past six months since President Trump's inauguration. There's the Department of Education itself, which Trump has vowed to close. (SOUNDBITE ...

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Northeastern University’s president Joseph Aoun has some tough words for higher education in America. Having authored books like Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ...

For more than 40 years, education in America has been bouncing from one reform to another, driven by political ideologies, competing interests, and changing trends. From the No Child Left Behind Act ...

(The Center Square) - The U.S. Department of Education, along with private organizations, launched this week the America 250 Civics Education Coalition, in an effort to revive civic education in ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Ideology, tools, and perspective -- What is eugenics? -- Fear of the "other" -- The dilution ...

Fifty years ago, special education in America was born. In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed the landmark law known today as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA. It guaranteed ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Last winter, the federal government released the results of its semi-annual reading and math tests of fourth- and ...

"The Educational policies commission here republishes in one volume the essentials of three of itsprevious publications...The unique function of education in America (1937), The education of free m en ...