Here & Now 's Robin Young talks with historian and professor Jack Schneider about the history of the Department of Education, ...

Picture an America recovering from a recession but still crippled by high inflation. An America whose middle-class lives pay-check to pay-check while the wealth-inequality gap widens. An America whose ...

The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the Department of Education (DOE) through executive order — a move that will ...

Funds tied to federal educational laws would be redirected to states without federal oversight to ensure compliance.

Republicans have been calling for the demise of the U.S. Department of Education since its creation in 1979 by Jimmy Carter.

Barack Obama also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. Unfortunately, no one is sure why Obama was the recipient. He had by that time accomplished no towering achievement. And unless one counts the ...

A potential Trump administration executive order seeking to fundamentally alter the Department of Education could threaten ...

It's Carter's fourth Grammy. His posthumous Grammy joins his three previous ones for spoken word album. If the former ...

Just a few months before Jimmy Carter died at 100 at the end of last year, an audiobook was published in celebration of his ...

Energy and National Goals Address (“The Malaise Speech”), 1979 “I love you the goodest.” — Jimmy to wife, Rosalynn Carter “It’s better to fail while striving for something wonderful ...

For many of us, the death and funeral of Jimmy Carter unleashed a flood of memories ... That same year, 1979, the Soviet Union pushed into next-door Afghanistan to reinforce that country ...

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter sing with Martin Luther King Sr., Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young and other civil rights leaders during a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan 14 ...