A couple of court decisions over the summer uphold the right of the U.S. Department of Education and the states to put their stamp on the No Child Left Behind Act.

A school district's challenge of the construction of a halfway house for prisoners and probationers in its community is headed back to where the district filed it--a state court.

Two Tennessee school districts have agreed to stop blocking student and teacher access to Web sites with information about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas school district's dress code that prohibits most messages on student shirts, including political slogans, is likely consitutional.

The Senate voted 68 to 31 to confirm the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

By guest blogger Erik Robelen: With the U.S. Senate seemingly poised to approve Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court later this week, the pile of letters in support and against the president's nominee has grown pretty high. Both national teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, were among the dozens of groups to sign a July 27 letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging a "yes" vote for Judge Sotomayor. (The NEA had actually first announced its support in a June 30 press release.) "During her long tenure on the federal judiciary, Judge ...

A poor understanding of civics by many Americans "is something to worry about," says retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.

Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter will address the American Bar Association on Saturday about improving civic education in the United States

President Barack Obama's nominee today moved one step closer to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, with one Republican joining all 12 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in voting in favor of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Sen. John Cornyn pressed Sonia Sotomayor on whether she agreed with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s view that "the best way to stop discriminating based on race is to stop discriminating based on race."