By Erica Frankenberg, Penn State and Maithreyi Gopalan, University of Oregon The U.S. Department of Education cut its workforce by…
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Mississippi’s education miracle: A model for global literacy reform
By Harry Anthony Patrinos, University of ArkansasIn a surprising turnaround, Mississippi, once ranked near the bottom of U.S. education standings,…
Trump orders a plan to close Education Department – an anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons why Trump and his supporters want to eliminate it
By Alex Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark “And one other thing I’ll be doing very early in the administration is…
Massive layoffs at the Department of Education erode its civil rights division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will…
Anti-DEI guidance from Trump administration misinterprets the law and guts educators’ free speech rights
By Paul M. Collins Jr., UMass Amherst and Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity, equity and…
Education Department “lifting the pause” on some civil rights probes, but not for race or gender cases
A memo to the department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to…
Trump’s Department of Education warns schools to end DEI programs before March 1 or lose funding
WASHINGTON D.C. — Following President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at ending Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, the Department…
“We’ve been essentially muzzled”: Department of Education halts thousands of civil rights investigations under Trump
In the three-and-a-half weeks since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, investigations by the agency that handles allegations of civil…
