Education won’t be any more prominent in the general-election campaign than it has been during the presidential primaries, said two of the three panelists at a symposium at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington last week...
Minnesotans long have made education a top priority, so much so that taxpayers have been willing to dedicate close to half of the state’s $34 billion, two-year budget to schools...
Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig will not be running for a seat in the House of Representatives, but that does not mean that he is slowing down his campaign to change Congress...
Increased years of education boost economic growth -- but only if students' cognitive skills, as measured by math and science tests, are improved as a result, a new study says...
New research published in the spring 2008 issue of Education Next shows that the cognitive skills of a nation’s students have a large impact on its economic growth...
For most people, the popular culture is far more influential via movies, television, the Internet, radio, and other forms of mass media than what is taught in school...
Until the mid 1960's, female high school graduates were less likely than male graduates to go to college, and female college students were far more likely to drop out than were male students...