From slashing rates during the pandemic to standing up to the president, here are the key moments that shaped Powell's eight ...

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist.

Market watchers say that the economy as a whole is holding up under higher energy prices and do not expect a recession. Even ...

Student test scores in math and reading have been on a steady decline since 2013, well before the COVID-19 pandemic, a new ...

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Incoming Federal Reserve chief Kevin Warsh's plans to shrink the U.S. central bank's "footprint" in financial markets could be constrained by the ...

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - Fifteen years after leaving the Federal Reserve in ...

When Jerome Powell was sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve eight years ago, economists worried that inflation and ...

A recent ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that half of Americans expect gas prices to increase further in the next year, and about a quarter said they are falling behind financially.

Over the past ten-plus years, American students’ academic achievement has experienced a concerning decline.

Researchers say U.S. students entered a yearslong “learning recession” before the pandemic, with reading scores now near ...