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I've been teaching the Declaration of Independence for more than 25 years, which is 10 percent of the life of our nation, and just under half... Read More
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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
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The AFT president is walking a tightrope on AI in education. A year after AFT partnered with OpenAI and Microsoft on teacher training, the... Read More
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Why a push to bring back mandated recess, even for older students, is sweeping across the nation. Read More
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He enthusiastically championed DEI initiatives during his tenure at the University of Alabama. Read More
Hundreds of University of California faculty members signed an open letter this week calling for the return of standardized testing... Read More
The federal government now classifies 536 degree programs as STEM, including developmental psychology, strategic communication, demography,... Read More
Its great books approach is spreading. Read More
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Within the past month, Stanford and Princeton ended honor codes that had governed student conduct for more than a century. Both universities will return to proctored in-person exams this fall after waves of AI-assisted cheating and collapsing trust in take-home assessment. Glasgow and other UK universities are doing the same. A recent preprint analyzing 3.2 million learning interactions found that... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.
