Why is the Obama administration pushing testing on our schools?

Trina Garnett accidentally set a fatal fire when she was 14. That was in 1976. Could today’s Supreme Court ruling against juvenile life without parole finally bring her home?

The state’s top number-cruncher discusses taxes, education and the consequences of drowning government in the bathtub.

Total debt now exceeds $1 trillion. We should write off existing debt and make public college free.

In College, Andrew Delbanco explains the reversal of the postwar project of democratic expansion in higher education.

Education and schools have failed to live up to their full potential for the communities they serve.

New studies show that many teachers are unhappy in their jobs—and in this climate of austerity, it's no wonder.

Already facing crippling debt and a rocky job market, students in default can't even get access to the grades they've already earned.

From William Kristol to Condi Rice to Joel Klein, conservatives turn disastrous decisions into fabulous careers. How do they do it?

Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Welcome to Repress U, class of 2012.