For the third year in a row, NBC News hosted a national Education Nation Summit in New York City. The three-day event brought together more than 300 of the country's thought leaders in education, ...

In an otherwise austere federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2012, President Barack Obama last week singled out education as an area crucial to the country’s economic future. He called for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover education as a sector and as the bedrock of all sectors. In most discussions of education reform, teachers receive the ...

Abstract: In August 2012, the White House released the report “Investing in Our Future: Returning Teachers to the Classroom” to bolster President Obama’s call for massive new education spending. The ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In 2012, new ...

This year saw a boom of innovation in education on both the K-12 and post-secondary fronts and also welcomed a host of new initiatives from the Obama administration to usher in improvements and ...

Five big trends that will shape education for the next decade became fully evident this year. 1. State policy matters more. With federal devolution (e.g., ESEA waivers) and state aggregation of ...

Last year when I wrote about the top 10 trends in ed-tech, I saved “The Business of Ed-Tech” for the penultimate post. I’m starting my series there this time around. There’ll be plenty of opportunity ...

A Columbus charter school already strained because of poor fiscal management now is under state scrutiny for its work with special-needs children. Ohio Department of Education officials made an ...

Oregon Chief Education Officer Rudy Crew has hired two deputies, one the longtime dean of Western Oregon University's college of education and the other a former Washington school superintendent, he ...

Gov. John Kitzhaber responded a bit testily Wednesday when he was reminded that parents, educators and students all are clamoring for smaller class sizes, a full school year, lower college tuition and ...

LANSING, MI - Michigan lawmakers are beginning to wrestle with sweeping proposals that could dramatically affect finances and control of public K-12 schools. Should parents have broader choices when ...