After 25 years working in education—as a teacher, researcher, consultant, and policy adviser—I’ve reached a conclusion that... Read More
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Steve Cortes investigates the rapidly growing trend of foreign students attending American universities in huge numbers, including 6,000... Read More
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The Buckley Institute’s research found that in undergraduate departments and the law and management schools, 2.3% of faculty are... Read More
This survey offers a first look at how students across the country are responding to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Read More
New interactive compares learning across 3 million students, 42,000 schools and more than 10,000 districts. Read More
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The Supreme Court's 2023 decision ending race-conscious college admissions produced starkly different outcomes across American higher... Read More
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We’ve come to accept illogical, unjust, and occasionally insulting pay practices. Why? Read More
A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office found the agency cannot prove the employee cuts improved services. Read More
According to a new study, more than one in three U.S. college students admit they’ve checked their phone during sex. Read More
Young people are hungering for meaning. A lack of spiritual education in childhood can reverberate across a lifetime. Read More
Colleges looked past legal risks. Now they’re paying a price. Read More
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could... Read More

Most parents assume that if their children are earning A’s and B’s, they must be meeting grade-level standards. After all, A is the highest grade possible. Getting a B is the next best thing. If students weren’t meeting the school’s expectations—if they were academically behind and at risk of falling further—they wouldn’t bring home such good grades. Right... Read More
The best and worst campuses for free speech, based on a survey of more than 55,000 students.