Russ” Whitehurst, the first head of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) who initiated studies for private school ...

For generations, libraries have been hubs of information in their communities. Your public library, the library in your school and at your college, even those in hospitals and law firms, are centers ...

For the last four years, school and public libraries have been drawn into a culture war that seeks to censor, limit and discredit diverse perspectives. Yet time and time again, as librarians have been ...

As the nation plunges deeper into chaos, this moment is testing the values, fortitude and courage of California’s leaders.

The world-class universities that have made California higher education home to innovation are caught in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. We need a vociferous defense of the fundamental ...

Federal DOGE cuts have already hit higher ed. Now some state leaders are cutting higher education budgets, too, emulating the ...

The Trump administration has restarted collections on all student loans that are in default, ending the pandemic-era pause ...

In Kansas, Panasonic and two community colleges scaled up training fast, through apprenticeships and other courses.

American higher education is approaching a sharp drop in the number of college-aged students — a trend known as the demographic cliff. At the same time, following decades of declining enrollment, ...

In the rural Methow Valley in northeast Washington state, parents have few options for child care. There are only two licensed programs in the community — one of which is a Head Start center. About 40 ...

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