The Committee on Trust in Higher Education released a report proposing that Yale change its mission statement and its approaches to grading,... Read More
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“If the university no longer seeks the production and dissemination of knowledge, it loses the primary justification for its academic... Read More
Beginning in 2019, United Teachers Los Angeles won two strikes in four years, both times decisively, emerging as America's most powerful... Read More
The safeguards in place to protect research integrity are not keeping pace with the tools that can be used to circumvent them. Read More
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Four years after the debut of ChatGPT, the first class to have the powerful tool of generative AI throughout their entire college career will... Read More
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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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Activist ideology masquerading as scholarship persists, giving the school’s board the opportunity to act. Read More
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Hampshire College’s board of trustees has announced that the college will be closing at the end of the year. Read More
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The next president at the University of Michigan says he can’t take the job. Read More
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In recent weeks, the Florida Board of Governors voted to remove introductory sociology from the state's general education core, setting off... Read More

Beginning in 2019, United Teachers Los Angeles won two strikes in four years, both times decisively, emerging as America's most powerful teachers union. Anti-union forces, correctly viewing us as a key part of the revitalization of the American labor union movement, have deployed numerous tactics to try to weaken us. One of them is the anti-union Freedom Foundation's lawsuit over UTLA's alleged an... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.