Why revisit John Dewey’s philosophy on education and democracy now? I think it is time to revisit Dewey’s philosophy about the value of field trips, classroom experiments, music instruction and ...

As senior fellow at UPCEA, the online and professional education association, and professor emeritus from the University of Illinois Springfield, I am fortunate to devote recent efforts to track, ...

Outer Coast students on the Sitka Cross Trail. The three mountains are known as the Three Sisters. For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding ...

Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “wokeness” and “left-wing indoctrination.” The president-elect wants to forbid classroom ...

Rarely if ever have visions of education offered by the two major party tickets in a presidential campaign been so radically different. Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Gov. Tim ...

The Alaska Legislature opened an 18-month study of the state’s troubled public education system on Tuesday as lawmakers convened the first meeting of their Task Force on Education Funding, established ...

As I walked towards the State House on Monday, I passed the statue of a smiling Christa McAuliffe as I entered the building. I smiled, too, as I remembered the unveiling of the statue last year and ...

One day historians of higher education or American politics will come across the document you see below. It’s an address Linda McMahon, the U.S. secretary of education, gave Monday at Hillsdale ...

Salman Khan’s “Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)” presents an invigorating and forward-looking vision of the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Ohio Republican gubernatorial Vivek Ramaswamy wants to bring back "standards" to Ohio public education, implement artificial intelligence into the curriculum, switch teacher pay to a merit-based raise ...

School privatization efforts are making dangerous advances in states like Florida and Arizona. Neoliberal education reforms that have degraded public schools, from high-stakes testing to corporatized ...

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