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 ...

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

McMahon has a limited background in education, and a long career as a business executive. She'd be stepping into an agency ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wednesday morning, former U.S. Secretary of Education and current President of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C. Margaret Spellings released a statement calling the data a "national ...

“Change must happen, and it must happen now.” Margaret Spellings, president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center and former secretary of education, said the NAEP scores are a wake-up call ...

(More on that later.) The "incomplete" came from Margaret Spellings, a former education secretary under President George W. Bush. "There've been some real misses, but also some room for praise." ...