On a special episode (first released on March 26, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Are schools providing the best education possible for all their students? This episode's guest argues that the U.S.

A great country demands a great education system—one that prepares our children to lead, innovates, and secures a stronger future for America.  This ...

“America is not perfect, but perfection is not its promise. Opportunity is. And as long as we remain faithful to that idea, the American Dream will endure.” So wrote a high school student from ...

When nearly 40% of high school graduates from the wealthiest nation in the world don’t pursue college, the question arises: What are we doing to ensure that education is a right for all, not a ...

The Trump administration is officially taking steps to dismantle the Department of Education. The idea has been around for ...

If you haven’t noticed, the future of education in the United States is suddenly looking much more uncertain than at any point in the past half-century. For some students, changing economic indicators ...

People protest school vouchers in Nashville in 2019. (Mark Humphrey/AP) America’s public schools are failing their students and the country. That’s long been the argument of many Republican ...

In New York City, families sparred over whether a few thousand 4-year-olds should be funneled into gifted education programs. In Seattle, teachers disagreed on how to improve the dismal enrollment ...

Federal education policy has seen a lot of changes in the past six months since President Trump's inauguration. There's the Department of Education itself, which Trump has vowed to close. (SOUNDBITE ...

America’s four-year colleges and universities have lost their way. Public trust in these institutions has plunged as their commitment to free inquiry and robust dialogue has come into question. They ...

Schools are increasingly abandoning their mission as assimilators of immigrants because education elites no longer believe in that mission. But parents and the American public still do. The best way ...

So wrote a high school student from Illinois, one of the winners of the 2025 America’s Field Trip contest. Sponsored by the U.S. Semiquincentennial, or the America 250 Commission, the contest invited ...