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| Jun 30, 2026 | Trump administration expands list of graduate degrees subject to higher borrowing limits | Many graduate students will be subject to higher federal student loan caps than previously expected, after a court ruling last week.
On Monday, the Education Department published the updated and longer list of over 20 professional degrees t... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Trump ramps up Education Department’s dismantling with changes on special education and civil rights | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By ANNIE MA, AP Education Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday accelerated its dismantling of the Education Department, delegating much of its work to protect... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Head Start will be cut off for immigrants without legal status, Trump administration says | Requiring proof of immigration status would likely create fear and confusion among families seeking to enroll their children, said Yasmina Vinci, executive director of the National Head Start Association.
“This decision undermines the funda... |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Housing Crisis: A Legacy Unfulfilled | The echoes of history resonate in today’s housing landscape. The Fair Housing Act, signed into law shortly after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, was meant to be a beacon of hope. It aimed to dismantle the walls of discrimination tha... |
| Apr 11, 2025 | The Math Crisis: A Call for Change in Teacher Preparation Programs | Math is the backbone of education. Yet, many students are stumbling at its base. Recent assessments reveal a troubling trend: 24% of fourth graders are failing to grasp basic math skills. This isn’t just a number; it’s a wake-up call. The g... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Looming Pell Grant shortfall could impact students’ ability to cover college costs | How Pell Grant funding works — and why it’s short
The Pell has a complex funding model, Zampini explains. Like Social Security or Medicare, it’s an “entitlement program,” which means all students who are eligible for the Pell Grant receive ... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | The Future of Education Funding: A Tug of War Between States and the Federal Government | The landscape of education funding in the United States is shifting. A battle is brewing between GOP-led states and the federal government over how to allocate billions of dollars meant for public schools. The stakes are high, and the impli... |
| Mar 25, 2025 | GOP-led states push for unfettered school aid as Trump promises a smaller federal role in education | The Education Department channels billions of dollars a year to America’s public schools, but it’s divided into dozens of grants with different targets. The biggest is Title I, which uses a formula to direct more money to schools with high ... |
| Mar 13, 2025 | The Tug of War: Trump’s Agenda Meets the Judiciary and Education Policy | In the ever-shifting landscape of American politics, the battle lines are drawn. On one side, the Trump administration, emboldened by a conservative Supreme Court and a desire to reshape the nation’s policies. On the other, a judiciary grap... |
| Mar 12, 2025 | National Politics | The Education Department was created to ensure equal access. Who would do that in its absence? | The equity goal of the Education Department, which was founded in 1980, emerged partly from the anti-poverty and civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The act creating the department described its mission, in part, as: “To strength... |
| Feb 14, 2025 | The Education Department in the Crosshairs: A Battle for America's Future | The landscape of American education is shifting. A storm brews as the Department of Education faces unprecedented cuts. The new administration, led by a billionaire with a boardroom background, is poised to dismantle a vital institution. Th... |
| Feb 11, 2025 | Education | DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students’ academic progress | “Cutting out at the knees the one independent agency that helps improve student outcomes is ridiculous,” Dinkes said. “Education is the economic engine that fuels the U.S. economy, and everything they cut is what helps make our education sy... |
| Nov 17, 2024 | The Education Battlefield: Trump’s War on Wokeness and Trans Rights | The landscape of American education is shifting. With Donald Trump’s return to power, a new wave of policies threatens to reshape the classroom. His agenda targets what he calls “wokeness” in education, promising to leverage federal funding... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | National Politics | Trump wants to end ‘wokeness’ in education. He has vowed to use federal money as leverage | He said it would be done through executive action, though even some of his supporters say he lacks the authority to make such swift and sweeping changes.
Trump’s opponents say his vision of America’s schools is warped by politics — that the... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | Renowned Educator Dr. Irvin Scott to Launch His New Book “Leading with Heart and Soul” at Harvard Event Tuesday, April 9 | Renowned Harvard educator Dr. Irvin Scott is the author of the new book “Leading with Heart and Soul 30 Inspiring Lessons for Educational Leaders,” published by Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Brand.
The new book “Leading with Heart and Soul 30 Inspir... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Algebra to return to San Francisco middle schools this fall | San Francisco middle schools will teach Algebra I again this fall — though concerns about implementation continue amid a shortage of qualified teachers.
Why it matters: The 6-1 vote by the San Francisco Unified School District board Tuesday... |
| Sep 6, 2023 | When Affordable Housing Is Scarce, So Are Educators | EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. — Carrie Rodgers gestures toward the silver medallion sitting atop her fridge, then waves it off.
It’s nothing really, she shrugs.
Still, she reaches for the disc and sets it on the kitchen counter for a closer look.
Two... |
| Aug 21, 2023 | With FAFSA Delayed, Advocates Want Later Financial Aid Deadlines | College student entering a Financial Aid Services Officegetty |
| Jul 12, 2023 | Moving Beyond the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Rulings | At the end of its term, the Supreme Court upended established equal protection law with its decision in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, effectively eliminating the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court’s decision disre... |
| Sep 27, 2022 | FEV Tutor Releases White Paper on the Efficacy of High Impact Tutoring as a Tier 2 and Tier 3 Math Intervention | “One of the interesting findings from third-party researchers as well as in our own studies with NWEA Math data is that fitting tutoring into the instructional day has much more impact on student learning than after-school or home tutoring ... |
| Apr 3, 2022 | Giving Colleges an Incentive to Do Better for Students | While it is true that with federal Pell grants, colleges “have no incentive to improve graduation rates because the subsidies flow no matter how students fare” (“The Biden Plan to Raise College Tuition,” Review & Outlook, March 30), sta... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | How Canceling $15 Billion In Student Loans Impacts The Racial Wealth Gap | Portrait of a young African American male student wearing a protective face mask and his headphones ... [+] around his neck, walking trough the city in a yellow shirt with a backpack, a book and a smart phone in his hand getty |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Higher Ed Groups Call On U.S. News To Stop Using SAT/ACT Scores In Its College Rankings | There are new calls for ending the use of standardized admission test scores in the ranking of ... [+] colleges. They should be heeded. getty |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Biden Administration Rightly Holds The Line On Statewide Academic Assessments | The results from statewide annual assessments this year will help teachers, parents, and education ... [+] leaders know how to target supports to meet the needs of students – no matter their race, income, disability or where they live. Mary... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | CISCO SYSTEMS, INC.
The social justice of education: An interview with the CEO of New Teacher Center | Social justice in education is about making sure there is equity in every classroom - and that type of environment starts with the teacher. New Teacher Center (NTC) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student learnin... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Meet the 35 healthcare startups VCs say will take off in 2021 | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Healthcare startups that had a breakout year in 2020 are poised to have an even better 2021, investors told Business Insider.
Startups, esp... |
| Dec 21, 2020 | How Reimagining Employment Practices Can Advance Racial Justice | Gerald Chertavian, CEO of Year Up, and Elyse Rosenblum, Founder and Managing Director at Grads of Life, reflect on the newly announced OneTen coalition and the power of advancing racial equity through employment. |
| Aug 7, 2020 | San Diego Blacks and Latinos most likely to lose jobs and live in COVID hot spots, data shows | The coronavirus pandemic has upended San Diego County’s once robust job market but the pain is not evenly spread across the region with Black and Latino communities hit the hardest.
New data from the San Diego Association of Governments, or... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | The Urgency Of Reopening Schools Safely | This photo taken on June 17, 2020 shows a teacher attending to students in a classroom equipped with ... [+] tables with plastic dividers to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus at the International Pioneers School in Bangko... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Obama Education Secretary: Cancel Student Loans In Next Stimulus | John King Jr., former Secretary of Education, told the House Committee on Education and Labor that ... [+] targetted loan forgiveness would help struggling student borrowers. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** John ... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Illinois nonprofits hope mentors and real-world projects will improve diversity in STEM classes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Illinois has the unique distinction of producing ... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Illinois nonprofits hope mentors and real-world projects will improve diversity in STEM classes | Illinois has the unique distinction of producing more top STEM talent than almost any other state, and it continues to produce a record number of STEM degrees each year. But when it comes to the diversity of STEM talent, it’s a different st... |
| Apr 5, 2018 | Illinois nonprofits hope mentors and real-world projects will improve diversity in STEM classes | Illinois has the unique distinction of producing more top STEM talent than almost any other state, and it continues to produce a record number of STEM degrees each year. But when it comes to the diversity of STEM talent, it’s a different st... |
| May 17, 2017 | Why Education Power Trumps Voice | Parents and kids. When was the last time you attended an education policy conference that put both kids and parents into the spotlight? Or tried to confront not-so-politically correct topics of race and politics in a way that stayed civil t... |
| Mar 2, 2015 | What Educators Can Learn From House of Cards | In 2011, Netflix made a reported $100 million bet and bought two full seasons of House of Cards, sight unseen.
While Netflix executives hadn’t seen the show, what they had seen was data. Tons of data. Data from 29 million customers about wh... |
| Dec 30, 2014 | Improve Education with Great Expectations for All Students | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If I could change one thing about our K-12 education system, it would be to end the curse of low expectations in Washington’s public schools.
Numerous studies have shown that ... |
| Sep 30, 2013 | Call a special session to improve education in Hawaii | Recently, a person I met told me his greatest fear.
He is 60 years old, attended public school and was later a graduate of one of Hawaii’s most exclusive private schools, then went to a mainland university as well as the University of Hawai... |
| I was paying off school loans while I was the secretary of education under Obama. Here's why Biden needs to cancel student debt. | John B. King Jr. John B. King Jr.
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| Obama’s former Education secretary is calling on Biden to cancel student debt | CNBC interviewed John King, who served as Education secretary in the Obama administration, about why he’s come to believe student loans must be forgiven.
“Looking back, those plans weren’t enough,” King said about efforts to combat the cris... |