Education

Examining the troubling increase in gun violence in schools and its detrimental impact on children. Discover the need for immediate action.

The debate around university endowment funds and their investment decisions. Is it possible to shield investments from political pressures?

The pay penalty for teachers — the gap between the weekly wages of teachers and other college graduates — grew to a record 26.4% in 2022, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

The government workforce is crucial to our daily lives and is an integral part of the US economy.

Over the last 18 years, EPI has closely tracked trends in teacher pay. Over these nearly two decades, a picture of increasingly alarming trends has emerged.

The objective of universal social benefits provided without charge to all comers may be disparaged as radical and impractical, but the idea of the common school — a system of free, non-sectarian education open to all children — goes back to the founding o

We have a right to expect more serious budget reporting from the country’s leading newspaper.

The Biden administration’s debt forgiveness plan is not perfect, but it is a big step that will help tens of millions of people. That’s pretty good for government work.

The child care and pre-kindergarten policies under consideration in Congress would not only benefit children, families, early educators, and the child care sector. They will also stimulate billions of dollars in economic activity in every state.