Opinion: The U.S. first had a federal Education Department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the ...

An iteration of the department in 1867 lasted about a year before being demoted and not resurfacing until the Carter ...

The U.S. first had a federal education department in 1867 — not 1979. Its history is critical in understanding the federal ...

The latest headlines feature the shootings near the White House of two members of the West Virginia National Guard, allegedly ...

To appease Yunus and his Islamist backers would be no more effective than Carter’s appeasement was toward Khomeini with ...

Like Khomeini in the weeks before his seizure of power, Bangladesh’s interim leader Mohammad Yunus still speaks about ...

A busy news week heading into the Thanksgiving holiday has distracted from a continuing effort by the Trump administration to ...

Wyoming rancher Lawrence Kirby Lunt Jr. moved to Cuba, became a CIA informant, and was imprisoned for 14 years after being ...

Republicans from Ronald Reagan on have repeatedly vowed to dismantle the agency, but Mr. Trump is the first to follow through. Education Secretary Linda McMahon noted that the goal is to give state ...

The Department of Education announced on Nov. 18 that it is handing over some of its biggest grant programs to the Department ...

Six newly signed agreements represent the most sweeping transfer of the department’s responsibilities in its 45-year history.