About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement. By Sarah Mervosh Michael C.

The Education Department is trying to use the government shutdown to further push for its own elimination. From an effort to lay off almost 500 more employees to messaging from Secretary Linda McMahon ...

Announced layoffs threatening to decimate a weakened US Education Department are stoking fears among special education advocates, families, and school leaders over the potential fallout for more than ...

The shutdown means there is, essentially, no Education Department. The latest round of layoffs would leave few workers to enforce special education and civil rights laws. By Sarah Mervosh and Michael ...

Sarah D. Sparks is a reporter and data journalist for Education Week who covers the teaching profession and pedagogy for Education Week. She has covered education research and the science of learning ...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education has condemned a serious case of bullying at Mount View Secondary School in Verulam, calling it a deeply concerning incident that violates the department’s ...

If we think of intelligence as not only contained inside individual minds but as also emerging between people, then dialogue can be seen as key to collective intelligence. Traditional approaches to ...

The school district is considering consolidating Cape View Elementary with Roosevelt Elementary due to a shrinking school-aged population. Cape View Elementary is currently at less than half its ...

Kalkar said that despite policy support, the dropout rate among university students continues to rise as living costs become unaffordable for many “Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) may be ...

PROVIDENCE — The Trump administration has canceled a grant being used to train special educators in Rhode Island, part of an ongoing effort to root out spending that may be in any way connected to ...