Education Archives

Avoiding Teacher Layoffs With an Education Bailout

As hundreds of thousands of teachers and staffers brace for layoffs, there might be a federal bailout in their future, too.

A U.S. immigration court creates a new persecuted group in Europe: Christian home-schoolers.

How do you get kids to do their homework? Help them shape a positive but realistic image of themselves as successful adults.

The U.S. Library of Congress is blazing a trail in determining how to store an ever-expanding trove of information that never had physical form.

Will your child finish college? The answer may be as close as your bookshelves, or lack thereof.

Post 9/11, the United States has been chasing foreign-born scholars away, much to the nation's detriment.

While being involved in your children’s lives and studies is intuitively (and statistically) smart, some techniques are better than others.

Ethical quandaries at the nexus of science, technology and society are making it into high school curricula.

Without instituting a fifth-period forestry class, federal officials want school kids to get outside and observe what's there.

A coalition of major public universities has promised to halve the minority achievement gap in enrollment and graduation — and they set a deadline.