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To celebrate Renee Montagne's last week hosting Morning Edition,we listen back to some of her favorite stories, including a piece about schoolgirls in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

The Florida House this week could pass a series of education bills that range from trying to provide more school choice to families to ensuring children...

How is it that the nation's 14th richest state ranks 42nd in how much it spends per student in schools? It all comes down to Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR.

Members of the House Higher Education Appropriations committee received a breakdown of the budget for the year Thursday. As Blaise Gainey reports, the...

President-elect Obama is reported to have picked Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to serve as his education secretary. Duncan, who has run Chicago schools for seven years, is known for his efforts to reform urban public education. An announcement is expected Tuesday.

With a stroke of his veto pen, Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday wiped out most of the higher-education policy initiatives that had been advanced by Senate...

Juan Salgado is one of 24 winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," who will each receive $625,000 over five years.

45 states and the District of Columbia have signed on to implement new school curriculum and standardized tests. It's called Common Core and it'll replace…

Science education standards, issued in April, recommend teaching climate change for the first time. But one nonprofit says kids aren't learning enough, soon enough, about how their world will change in the coming decades. The group aims to remedy this with presentations in schools nationwide.

The Florida House of Representatives last week wrestled with key education proposals.