Last week in Obama’s Higher-Education Agenda I said I would in a series of posts examine the eight majors components of that agenda, and then try to put them together as a whole. His dream of ...

Obama fights for female and independent votes in battleground states. LEBANON, Va., Sept. 9, 2008— -- With recent polls showing a 20-point swing among white women voters to John McCain, Barack ...

In the safe confines of a gathering of Jewish fundraising and communal professionals, Sarah Hurwitz’s remarks about ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up (blackamericaweb.com) Sen. Barack Obama offered a detailed plan ...

Arne Duncan, former President Obama’s Education secretary, said Wednesday that President-elect Trump’s campaign promise to close the Department of Education is “empty.” “Trump promising to eliminate ...

When the bare-knuckled brawl over health care reform finally wraps up and the Obama Administration pivots to less divisive topics, education reform may be one of the few issues capable of drawing ...

Under the new rules, for-profit colleges must show that loan payments for average graduates don’t surpass 20 percent of their discretionary earnings or 8 percent of their total earnings — and the ...

President Obama has announced a program to improve the nation's lowest-performing schools using $900 million in grants. To receive the money, states and school districts must agree to one of four ...

As Barack Obama begins to assess his potential picks for his cabinet, Secretary of Education is not one of the positions you would necessarily expect him to focus on first. But American parents ...

HAMPTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told college graduates on Sunday the era of the iPod and the Xbox has not always been good for the cause of a strong education. Obama made the ...