Nation Topics - Education | The Nation

Is AmeriCorps a lifeline for debt-burdened young Americans—or one more example of relentless government cost-cutting?

Progressives supported Prop 30 to send more money to schools but now the funds are headed to prisons. How could this happen—and can it be stopped?

A new exhibit, The ABC of It, asks grown-up questions about literature for kids.

The latest “school reform” silver bullet fails to address how children learn.

Are MOOCs—massive open online courses—the utopia of affordable higher education, or just the latest fad?

The company has attracted tens of millions in venture capital—but if you're looking for the Amazon of online higher ed, try iTunes U.

Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Rambo, Red Dawn and how a tale of American triumphalism was returned to the child’s world.

Barbie, Joe, Darth Vader and making war in children’s culture.

Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States.

Showdowns in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City and beyond have turned out parents and teachers in droves—and revealed how out of touch education reformers really are.