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AJC: The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) hosted a panel discussion of the education policies of the Obama administration.

Americans driving, or walking, through blocks of shut-down businesses and foreclosed-upon homes while greeting their unemployed neighbors or perhaps looking for jobs themselves may wonder what happened to the so-called stimulus money that Congress voted to spend earlier this year.

A U.S. Census bureau campaign for schools is encouraging teachers to use the classroom as a way to help their neighborhood come out for the 2010 census and is expected to affect every school in the nation.

It turns out school lunch—soggy, cardboard pizzas with a side of half-thawed tater tots—is an expensive issue.

Anyone who says the religious right is the only group taking aim at safe schools “czar” Kevin Jennings could not be more wrong.

Is subscription-based online education a successful strategy for remedial education? One entrepreneur argues that “call center” style online courses would prove more affordable for both students and colleges.

A recent event, entitled Total Student Load: The Secret to Boosting School Performance?, and William Ouchi’s recent book, The Secret of TSL, both pose solutions to the challenges currently faced by the nation’s public school systems.

Heritage Foundation scholars recently received data on the number of police-notified incidents at District of Columbia public schools.

Yesterday the Chronicle of Higher Education elevated the liberal Huffington Post from a news outlet to a news source.

Parents continue to voice their alarm over the manner in which California public schools teach seventh-graders about Islam compared to other faiths.

Under some pressure from parents, California’s Education Department is reviewing its guidelines for teaching Islamic Studies to seventh-graders in its public schools.

Earlier this week I shared
with you that Education Secretary Arne Duncan had chosen homosexual activist Kevin Jennings to head the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools.