A majority of the U.S. Department of Education’s funding for K-12 schools—more than $20 billion a year—will be administered instead by the U.S. Department of Labor under an interagency agreement the ...

Which students benefit the most from dual-language programs? The answer, one educator says, is nuanced. “It isn’t that some English learners benefit, and native English speakers do not. It also ...

Furloughed federal employees in Wisconsin are facing financial stress as a federal government shutdown continues. The shutdown is the second-longest in U.S. history, with federal workers set to miss ...

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A person walks past National Guard troops near the U.S. Health and Human Services building in Washington on Sept. 25. (Tom Brenner/For The Washington Post) ...

A corner of Lackland Air Force Base is home to what might be the most important English language academy in America. In classrooms on San Antonio’s Southwest Side, foreign military personnel study ...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic front-runner in the mayor’s race, plans if elected to replace the selective program, which became a symbol of segregation in public schools. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and ...

The federal shutdown won't impact benefits from major programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. But one of the first things that could get hit is the nutrition assistance that many ...

Roughly 700,000 federal employees are working without pay during the government shutdown, which recently became the longest in U.S. history. The shutdown has suspended the work of at least 600,000 ...

We did an informal poll around the Hackaday bunker and decided that, for most of us, our favorite programming language is solder. However, [Stephen Cass] over at IEEE Spectrum released their annual ...