Nation Topics - Education | The Nation

Like her brother, President Obama, Soetoro-Ng wants to revamp school systems and broaden test-focused curriculums.

Proposed budget cuts and threats to collective bargaining are already damaging public education in Wisconsin.

A Palestinian's odyssey in a Middle East ablaze.

Whether you're a tiger mother, a soccer mom, a helicopter parent or something else, if you're not in poverty, then your kids will probably end up okay.

As a mentoring program shows, the arc of a child’s life can be altered by a single stable adult.

The real dilemma in Amy Chua's book is how to survive in a world in which the slightest nonconformity risks landing you out of a job, a home, a life.

What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out.

Why won't Facebook philanthropist Mark Zuckerberg use his gift to build on progress already being made?

The problems facing our schools demand solutions, not slogans.