For decades, there was a race to get classrooms hooked up to the latest educational technology. Now, some schools are doing the opposite. Read More

There is no evidence to inform most of what we do Read More

There is an important lawsuit being litigated in the Southern District of New York over the limits of free speech and academic freedom for... Read More

Previous administrations determined consistent school discipline policies were discriminatory. That is being changed. Read More

Thousands of students have been left in limbo amid a cheating scandal that erupted after the prestigious institution offered its exam online... Read More

Some schools may be continuing to promote certain DEI ideology, according to emails and meeting notes obtained by medical watchdog Do No Harm. Read More

Struggling colleges are digging into restricted endowments to pay everyday expenses, diverting funds that donors intended for other purposes.... Read More

AI moves fast. Its capabilities have quietly expanded, and it takes diligent study to understand exactly how. Read More

Jason Arday became a poster boy for diversity as the university's youngest black professor, but is now facing questions about his academic... Read More

In addition to the document's plagiarism, the title of Arday's PhD thesis has a grammatical error: he puts an apostrophe after 'teachers'... Read More

Low-income children face many disadvantages that impede academic success. But how much do those disadvantages matter, and how early do their... Read More

Vanderbilt University released a declaration outlining core principles for higher education, including academic freedom, institutional... Read More

In 2018, the sex trafficker told a friend he would leverage his Penn connections to help her son land a spot in the incoming class. 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

Why are colleges quietly dismantling campus speech restrictions? New FIRE data suggest changing legal, political and financial... Read More

A new study found that school cellphone bans reduced phone use but had little effect on test scores, attendance or in-class attention.... Read More

Syracuse University will close or pause 93 of its 460 academic programs, including majors in classics, ceramics and Italian. No students were... Read More

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent... Read More

Facing a federal funding denial, a UCLA research group is turning to OnlyFans to raise money and bring awareness to long-term research... Read More

The Trump administration is considering a $100,000 fee for foreign students who want to work in the U.S. after graduation, a policy that... Read More

Hartney: While he says he opposed prolonged school closures during COVID, my research suggests that most U.S. adults never received that... Read More

The traditional model of pushing every student into four-year college degrees needs a course correction, and America has the labor shortage... Read More

The president of Sarah Lawrence College, Cristle Collins Judd, recently posted a photograph of her Harvard faculty badge to Instagram and... Read More

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson's... Read More