I'd like to thank the Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings for protecting young people from the real world. Where was she when I was a child to start an uproar over Bert and Ernie, the "obviously ...

The House education committee chairman believes "even the best-meaning bureaucrat" can't understand what's happening in local schools.

When three former federal secretaries of education opined on the future of their agency, they were at times honest, critical and hopeful. Refusing to despair at calls to abolish the U.S. Department of ...

But, in a wide-ranging discussion hosted by the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution on Jan. 21, former education secretaries Margaret Spellings, John King Jr., and Arne ...