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Byline: James Kvaal and Arne Duncan Editor's note: An earlier version of this perspective piece contained a reference to Ashford University. The university disputes its accuracy, and neither the authors [...]

Byline: James Kvaal and Arne Duncan Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has repealed the gainful employment rule, which requires career colleges to ensure that their graduates can afford to repay their [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan Lately, a lot of people in Washington are saying that education reform hasn't worked very well. Don't believe it. Since 1971, fourth-grade reading and math scores are [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan On the U.S. map you won't find two places more outwardly unalike than the West Side of Chicago and West Virginia's McDowell County. Few people have been [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan and Catherine Lhamon This week's decision by the Trump administration to withdraw guidance to school communities about how to protect transgender students reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan On consecutive days this last week, the United States was introduced to two very different visions for its most important education law. Quite soon, Congress will choose [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan As a parent, I want to know how my children are progressing in school each year. The more I know, the more I can help them build [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan In education, it sometimes takes courage to do what ought to be common sense. That's a key lesson from several recent national and international assessments of U.S. [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan Earlier this month, my colleagues and I wrapped up a five-day, 1,100-mile back-to-school bus tour of the Southwest. It was exciting, occasionally exhausting, and often exhilarating. But [...]

Byline: Shaun Donovan, Arne Duncan President Barack Obama has made clear that there is no greater economic policy than one that invests in our children's future and helps America out-educate [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan Ten years ago, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics proposed that teams should be ineligible for postseason play if they failed to graduate at least half of [...]

Byline: ARNE DUNCAN Ten years ago, the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics proposed that teams should be ineligible for postseason play if they failed to graduate at least half of [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan With a new Congress set to begin, key members on both sides of the aisle are poised to rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, [...]

Byline: Arne Duncan Schools across the country are facing a full-blown financial crisis. As many as 300,000 teachers could be laid off before the next school year. In addition to [...]

Every fall, we deal with new strains of seasonal flu. But this year, we'll also confront a potentially serious flu virus that first appeared last spring. While scientists won't know [...]