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Former Obama administration Education Secretary John King was a keynote speaker at the Urban Superintendents Academy Conference.superintendents. Among the issues he spoke about were the…

David Osborne examines the charter school movement and offers his outlook for the future of public education in his book, Reinventing America’s Schools: Creating a 21st Century Education…

National Education Association President Lily Eslkelsen Garcia spoke at the National Press Club on a range of education policy issues, including the need for better public schools and health care for…

Crystal Laura spoke at the Urban Superintendents Academy Conference. She talked about her book, on the so-called school-to-prison pipeline among juveniles. The title of Professor Laura’s…

Zocalo Public Square hosted a forum on the impact of education technology on race and on the American class system. Panelists included Google’s chief education evangelist, the president of…

High school teachers William Kamps and Sunshine Cavalluzzi talked about their use of current events in lesson plans. The two were 2017 teaching fellows in the C-SPAN education program. The 2017 program…

Politico’s Caitlin Emma talked about the status of the fiscal year 2018 Education Department budget and the next steps of Congress fund the nation’s public education system. Clips were shown from…

In the weekly Democratic address, Representative Jim Himes (D-CT) talked about the importance for unity of all Americans and job creation.

Education policy experts talked about high schools and school choice. The panelists focused their remarks on why more challenges on access to choice exists for high schools in comparison to…

Washoe County Nevada School District Superintendent Traci Davis spoke at the Urban Superintendents Academy Conference. She talked about closing the achievement gap and the importance of…

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta held a briefing on education and workforce development at the Marriott in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The briefing followed…

Former Virginia Education Secretary Anne Holton, wife of Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), talked about access to and the quality of public education from the 1950s to the present.

Katherine Baird talked about her book Trapped in Mediocrity: Why Our Schools Aren’t World-Class and What We Can Do About It, in which she explores the history of the U.S. educational system and the economic…

Education professionals participated in a panel discussion on the role of K-12 after-school programs. The panel focused on the impact of after-school programs on students, parents and on…

The mayors of Charlotte, North Carolina and Gary, Indiana, participated in a panel discussion on the role of K-12 after-school programs in their cities. The panel focused on how these…

Education analysts talked about states were revising their accountability systems following the passage of the 2015 federal education law, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA replaced…

Education policy analysts talked about the federal role of education and the level of change that can be expected by the Trump administration in areas such as school choice. This discussion…

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) talked about new initiatives for education and college preparedness. One of the mayor’s initiatives would require Chicago public high school seniors to have a…

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) spoke at a summit on after-school programs and criticized the Department of Education funding cuts in President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 federal…

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Maslenjak v. United States, a case on whether the government can strip naturalized citizens of their citizenship for lying during the naturalization process…