Is it cheating if you use artificial intelligence (AI) while completing your homework? It depends. How are you using the AI tool? What role does it play in your thinking — and why are you turning to ...

WASHINGTON – Over the past year, congressional Republicans have cheered on President Donald Trump's quest to dismantle the Education Department. Yet those same lawmakers just reached a deal with ...

The education story of the year has been the “Southern Surge.” An intrepid group of southern states have led the nation in post-pandemic recovery. In a decade, Mississippi moved from 49th to seventh ...

President Donald Trump signs an executive order aimed at closing the Education Department at the White House in March. Credit: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Hechinger Report ...

In 2021, a Tennessee high school teacher named Matthew Hawn was fired after assigning readings about white privilege and discussing race in his class—topics some parents said violated the state’s new ...

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will transfer much of the U.S. Department of Education's programs to other agencies. Currently, the agency oversees the country's $1.6 trillion ...

Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to other federal agencies. By Michael C. Bender The Trump administration announced on Tuesday an aggressive plan to continue ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union ...

While federal law requires schools to provide language services for students classified as English learners, states and local districts have broad discretion in the types of education programming to ...

Cuts have hit most of the department’s main functions, which include investigating civil rights complaints, providing financial aid, researching what works in education, testing students and ...

President Trump is proposing massive cuts to education in his Friday budget request to Congress for fiscal 2026, including reduced funding for preschools, adult learning and the Education Department’s ...