There is a gamechanger coming to K-12 education in America – if states take the chance. Twenty-nine states have now opted in to the... Read More
Something has gone wrong with American capitalism. Younger Americans know it, and they're losing patience. Peter Thiel saw the shift earlier... Read More
It's a tough job market for recent college graduates. The share who've found full-time work within six months of leaving college is the... Read More
The battle is finally forming that I've been waiting for: professors versus metrics. Faculty are finally standing up to institutional demands... Read More
Not surprisingly, students who leave high school without basic skills are struggling in college. Read More
'Keeping kids out of school is risky,' claims Larissa Phillips, a former homeschooling parent. She raises concerns about the impact of... Read More
Panelists at a New America forum expressed real fears of the damage Trump has done to higher ed, as well as lofty hopes for a coordinated... Read More
The court ruling is another victory for conservatives who want to put religion in the classroom. Read More
Insights about AI in the classroom from three education conferences I attended in California. Read More
All Harvard College freshmen enrolled in expository writing courses were required to complete a three-part training module on artificial... Read More
New documents reveal what professors did to help Jeffrey Epstein get inside Harvard's gates. Read More
It takes most college students at least four years to earn a bachelor's degree. But some adults are finding ways to hack the system,... 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
There's been a veritable boom in civil-dialogue projects at colleges. One longtime researcher in the field estimated that among the more than... Read More
Colleges could standardize financial aid information to make it easier to compare. But they don’t. Here's why that's a problem. Read More
An annual luncheon in December honoring Ohio State University faculty members and staff was only 15 minutes underway when Ted Carter slipped... Read More
Admissions to Texas computer science programs are down roughly 20%, professors said, but they still see a future for their students. Read More
Mary Akkerman has visited more than 30 college campuses with her children, one now at Stanford and another still in high school. She... Read More
White-collar workers at risk of being replaced by AI have been told to go to trade school. But is ‘learn a trade’ the new... Read More
In the quest to develop young readers, oral language takes a back seat to the written word, say experts. Read More
The closing of Hampshire College was not a surprise. It was a long time coming, and its demise reflects a broader shift in what families now... Read More
Earlier this month, Sunny Hostin claimed that a household needs to earn $400,000 per year in order to afford child care. Read More
At a primary school in Mason County, Ky., educators say a renewed focus on the science of reading is beginning to change how children learn and how teachers teach.... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.
