Entertainment & Arts
Jan. 21, 2024
Movies
Directed by Chris Smith, ‘Devo’ dives into the history of the plastic-clad band of Ohio art students who brought subversive ideas to the 1980s mainstream.
Opinion
DeVos brought more balance and fairness to handling student allegations. The Biden administration should resist the urge to wipe out her reasonable rules.
March 22, 2021
Betsy DeVos’ agenda as Education secretary was mostly to push private schools over public and create fertile ground for sketchy for-profit colleges.
Dec. 9, 2020
The secretary of Education does the bidding of the president, who wants schools reopened no matter the danger to students and teachers.
Aug. 29, 2020
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been a curiously enduring member of President Trump’s Cabinet. Maybe it’s because he’s not all that interested in education.
Aug. 26, 2020
Elections matter, or so the saying goes. But the debate over some of President Biden’s nominees makes you wonder just how true that is.
Feb. 23, 2021
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ ties to student loan collection companies and support for privatizing public education might explain her behavior.
Jan. 5, 2020
In a rare bit of reasonable regulatory activity by the Trump administration, new rules governing sexual assault accusations at colleges strike the right balance -- for the most part.
May 8, 2020
World & Nation
DeVos downplayed the coronavirus risk of reopening schools and repeated a threat to cut funding to schools that don’t fully resume in-person learning.
July 12, 2020