Two years ago, I left academia as an associate professor of rhetoric and composition. I still love rhetoric. I just stopped trusting a field... Read More

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Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics. Read More

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The federal government can shed light on why some children fail to thrive at school. Read More

Since the College Board began changing its grading criteria for Advanced Placement exams, scores have climbed rapidly. Read More

Teen pregnancy is at record lows. Defunding prevention programs isn't a sinister plot—it’s sensible, writes Kat Rosenfield. Read More

As leftist scholars continue to vastly outnumber conservative ones on campuses, viewpoint discrimination appears to be rampant in higher... Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard—which effectively banned racial preferences in higher... Read More

This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them. 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

In his most famous speech, Frederick Douglass called America's Independence Day the first great fact in the nation's history. Read More

I assume students will do the reading of long, dense texts, week after week. Lately, that assumption has started to feel naive. Read More

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Harvard's ideological bias should worry all conservative students during their time at the College. This dangerous and ascendant attitude is... Read More

"First-of-their-kind" transgender dolls, complete with removable genitalia, will debut in some Minnesota classrooms this fall to kids as... Read More

In a wide-ranging memo, they also directed federal agencies to experiment with models other than peer-review for assessing research proposals. Read More

‘What if they don’t like me,’ she texted me from the bus. All I could say is: ‘You’re going to be great. I love you.’ Read More

If you read The Atlantic, or you follow a lot of writers on Substack — or virtually any other writing-focused website or form of social... Read More