The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will for the first time force underperforming Head Start grantees to compete for funding...
At first glance, it would appear there is little to cheer about with America’s urban schools. Results from the “Nation’s Report card,”...
Note: This story was corrected to reflect an accurate figure for the Corporation for National and Community Service Head Start is poised...
Center on Education Policy A letter from Jack Jennings, CEO of the Center on Education Policy, analyzes a recent book by Marc...
U.S. Department of Education The department examined the extent to which states legislatively required schools to address bullying and what model policies...
National Education Policy Center Broken up into three sections – Effects size, monetary benefits and costs – the report analyzes three education...
The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce met today to discuss college...
Justice Policy Institute The number of school resource officers in schools rose 38 percent between 1997 and 2007, according to the U.S....
President Barack Obama will announce Wednesday that beginning in January students who take out federal college loans will be able to repay...
Note: This column is reprinted with permission from Represent Magazine. A.L.’s heartfelt words are particularly timely this week after a Senate committee passed...
American Institutes for Research As more and more students are gravitating to community colleges, more attention is being put on how well...
***Day number 1,002 of the Obama administration and still no nominee to serve as administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education bill last night, which...
A Senate committee’s markup of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was stopped abruptly early this afternoon when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.),...
As Senate work stalled today on overhauling the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, a group of child welfare advocates hosted a webcast...
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will begin work tomorrow on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, two...
A comprehensive new Elementary and Secondary Education Act draft, filed today by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin...
I read about a horror story last month. It wasn’t one of those cases where a child died even though the case...
The College Completion Agenda – Latino Edition College Board This new reports looks at what can be done to increase the number...
The College Completion Agenda – Latino Edition College Board This new reports looks at what can be done to increase the number...