For the third year in a row, NBC News hosted a national Education Nation Summit in New York City. The three-day event brought together more than 300 of the country's thought leaders in education, ...

With President Goodluck Jonathan yet to assent to the 2012 budget, concerned education stakeholders have called for the upward revision of the budget to meet the 26 per cent recommended by UNESCO, as ...

Abstract: In August 2012, the White House released the report “Investing in Our Future: Returning Teachers to the Classroom” to bolster President Obama’s call for massive new education spending. The ...

Five big trends that will shape education for the next decade became fully evident this year. 1. State policy matters more. With federal devolution (e.g., ESEA waivers) and state aggregation of ...

A new generation of education advocacy groups has emerged to play a formidable political role in states and communities across the country. Those groups are shaping policy through aggressive lobbying ...

Faculty members are far less excited by, and more fearful of, the recent growth of online education than are academic technology administrators, according to a new study by Inside Higher Ed and the ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one in a series of articles examining President Obama’s record. In 3 1 / 2 years in office, President Obama has set in motion a broad overhaul of public education from ...

It's been quite an incredible year in the education space. While we've witnessed a surge in the number of politicians with no education experience make decisions on how schools should run and a wider ...

Kysie Miao reviews the history of performance-based funding in higher education at the state level. Today’s fiscal environment has forced states to carefully consider how their limited dollars are ...

2012 began with the first viral MOOC, a massive open online course, which spooked higher education institutions. Twelve months later major universities from Harvard to MIT are involved with MOOCs and ...

For most people, education is usually seen as a right, not a fight. But that’s exactly what it was for Malala Yousafzai, a teenage girl attending school in northwest Pakistan. Yousafzai, now 15 years ...