Last week, Texas reported that almost 275,000 students applied for the new Texas Education Freedom Accounts school choice program. Even with... Read More
The concern that new technology will undermine learning goes back millennia. It was, after all, Socrates who famously argued that adoption of... Read More
Activist ideology masquerading as scholarship persists, giving the school’s board the opportunity to act. Read More
Colleges and universities give too little attention to public speaking, leaving students unprepared for careers. Read More
School lunches are expected to align with a new food pyramid that prioritizes meat. But is that really best for kids and their nutrition? Read More
Florida's anti-DEI laws have complicated the fallout from a leaked racist group chat at Florida International University. In a post-DEI... Read More
Hampshire College’s board of trustees has announced that the college will be closing at the end of the year. Read More
The Chicago Theological Seminary has stopped admitting new students in its degree programs amid mounting financial woes at the 170-year-old... Read More
The poster, which included a rainbow flag, counts as 'instruction that includes sexuality content' according to the board. Read More
The next president at the University of Michigan says he can’t take the job. Read More
At Harvard, inflated grades mirror easy-money economics: The more you hand out, the less they’re worth, writes Arthur Brooks. Read More
Parents in the Beaverton area were convinced that this shiny, new, state-of-the-art Oregon public school would offer a state-of-the-art... Read More
Earlier in my career as a math instructor, I thought I could predict which students would succeed in my College Algebra course and which... Read More
In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Governors voted to remove introductory sociology from the state's general education core, setting off... Read More
INTRODUCTION It feels surreal to be a public education advocate from Mississippi these days. After decades of derision, my home state has... Read More
This piece was featured in The Washington Post and Inside Higher Ed , among other sources. Read More
Average grades continue to rise in the United States, raising the question of how grade inflation impacts students Read More
Reversing the decline of trust in America’s universities will be impossible without thoroughly assessing the politicization of the... Read More
Many young men today have lower earnings and career prospects compared to earlier cohorts. They have fewer friends, socialize less, and are... Read More
Florida's Board of Governors' decision to remove the Introduction to Sociology course from the state university core is being sold as a blow... Read More
With each passing year since the economic crisis of 2008, the familiar response to complaints of decline in the humanities has come to sound,... Read More
A recent poll shows AI's increasing role in how students decide on college majors, creating a rapidly developing situation for universities... Read More
Utsav Gupta examines the risks of AI use on the battlefield, arguing that "AI outputs may inform but must not replace human judgment." Read More
Harvard has yet to publish a report on its handling of antisemitism complaints required under a January 2025 legal settlement, according to... Read More
As graduation quickly approaches, many of my recent musings start with the sentence stem, "In another life." For example, in another life, I... Read More
Most community college students aspire to a bachelor’s degree, yet only a small fraction ever earn one. Many community college students... Read More
In February, the University of Nebraska at Omaha announced it would shutter its on-campus child care center, which has operated for nearly 40... Read More
A new and previously unreported estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities,... Read More

As graduation quickly approaches, many of my recent musings start with the sentence stem, "In another life." For example, in another life, I would have studied English. Or classics, or philosophy — something that asked me to sit with ambiguity and think deeply.... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.