A social science teacher says his high school students debate topics from the relevance of the Electoral College to the reality of police brutality — and offers advice on how we can foster civic engagement.

Unions and education activists urged Lisa Murkowski to oppose Trump’s education pick. On Tuesday, in a testament to the power of grass-roots resistance, Murkowski switched.

Communities — from urban, mostly black and brown districts, to conservative, rural areas — are rising up against budget cuts and the threat of school closures.

For the first time in at least 50 years, low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation’s public schools.

Some charters pass along nearly all their money to for-profit companies hired to manage the schools. It’s an arrangement that’s raising eyebrows.

What justifies so much government spending per student in private elite universities relative to public ones?

Every year millions of public education dollars flow through a North Carolina businessman's chain of nonprofit charters to his for-profit companies.

A former teaching fellow writes that reforms meant to help our most disadvantaged kids sometimes end up exacerbating inequality and depriving them of fundamental basics.

A new report reveals serious problems in our under-regulated charter schools.

After following the money trail behind the charter school movement, Diane Ravitch -- a former assistant secretary of education who once advocated for charters -- changed her mind.