Late last year, members of Congress met to scrutinize college costs and to press institutions to be more transparent about what students pay... Read More

Jeremy Tate thinks the SAT is way too easy—so he invented the Classic Learning Test. He tells Maya Sulkin that he’s ‘in a battle to... Read More

While New York City schools remain trapped in apathy and excuses, a big-city district in Texas is demonstrating how to turn failure around. Read More

Anytime I teach the Declaration of Independence, I find that the most important question to cover is one that is not actually mentioned in... Read More

A Columbia professor deducted points for missing "queer desire" in Shakespeare. Read More

“My shame was so thick it suffocated anything good that I had in my life.” Read More

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A president’s resignation has again cast a harsh light on the university’s trustees, but one outspoken board member says... Read More

Harvard’s guiding imperative is defending the restoration of $3 billion in federal grants, which apparently means appeasing those in the... Read More

Public school leaders told lawmakers how they're navigating finances, teacher quality and special education after last year’s state funding... Read More

Researchers say a lack of reliable information on artificial intelligence use on campus could lead to misguided policies Read More

The autopsies blame leadership. The autopsies are wrong and conducting more of them won't save the next one. Read More

The most important teaching I do in a course sometimes happens before we open a book, assign a reading, or discuss an idea. I was reminded of... Read More

For a long time, people have been heralding the “crisis in the humanities”: low student enrollment, perceived professional irrelevance,... 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 its early years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison offered courses covering Virgil, Cicero, Livy, logic, calculus, ethics,... Read More

Some commencement speakers were booed when they mentioned AI this spring, but colleges are adding majors focused on the technology. Read More

Two years ago, UNC-Chapel Hill introduced a new resource allocation model that ties funding more closely with student demand. This approach... Read More

They’re vibe coding with the kids on Saturday mornings and using a bot as a 24-7 family therapist. Evan Gardner spoke with the parents who... Read More

Techno-optimists like to believe that AI will democratize learning and that the university will dissolve into a distributed global classroom Read More

The federal agency’s new enforcement plan turns higher ed’s DEI paper trail into potential proof of discrimination. Read More

It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job... Read More

School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then? Read More

We must know the Declaration if we truly are to love America. Having rejected the Old World's rule of accident and force in favor of... Read More

Bill Gates is going through a rough patch. At the beginning of this year he proclaimed himself a "optimist with footnotes." The release of... Read More