In this occasional series, NPR will follow the transition from one administration to another through a series of stories, conversations, commentaries and essays that will outline the many issues ...

President Barack Obama’s proposal to give millions ... a former assistant secretary of education under Obama and now an executive vice president at the Center for American Progress.

What we do know is that his memoir says almost nothing about his education legacy — and there’s no clue as to why. In his best-selling new book, “A Promised Land,” Barack Obama writes ...

On February 17, 2009, Barack Obama signed one of the most sweeping federal education reforms in American history. You may not have heard of it. His program was a federal grant, called “Race to ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of The Nation’s special issue on Barack Obama ... to be progressive on education issues? Eight years ago, when President Obama came into office, this ...

Barack Obama’s education included the elite Punahou School from 5th grade through high school. He later continued his education at Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA, before transferring to ...

During the presidential race, Barack Obama straddled the two camps ... In public, Obama shifted nimbly from camp to camp while education experts studied his intonations with the intensity of ...

Barack Obama clinched the presidency in 2008 and ... Among the Hofstra faculty scheduled to present is Alan J. Singer, an education professor, historian and former high school social science ...