Malia and Sasha Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School, the pricey and prestigious academy that has educated generations of Washington’s elite. read more

The Education Department announced that it would buy up to $6.5 billion of federally guaranteed student loans made in the 2007-8 academic year as par read more

Gov. Charlie Crist urged the Legislature to allow tuition increases at the state’s public universities to blunt the impact of budget cuts. read more

Is it in a student’s best interest to be subject to drug testing in school, or is the policy an invasion of privacy? read more

As a Ford Foundation executive, Mr. Armsey directed more than $350 million in grants to universities in the 1960s while prompting the foundation to d read more

Hard hit by budget cuts, the California State University system is planning to cut its enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-10 academic year. read more

College administrators who really seek to understand the value of the SAT would do well to learn from the varied experiences of New York’s state univ read more

Under the governor’s proposal, school districts across the state could face staff reductions, larger class sizes and fewer extracurricular programs. read more

A frail economy prompted a gesture of compromise from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers. read more

The investigation by the attorney general appears to be focused on the adequacy of disclosure of policy terms and costs to students. read more