American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores,... Read More

Harvard’s new grade cap is meant to curb a decade of rising A’s — but confidential course-level data shows the policy will land... Read More

At a minimum, colleges should be delivering a broad-based education that fosters critical thinking to restore public trust in higher ed. Read More

Since 2020, the state education agency has taken over eight school districts — four in just the past few months — and installed leaders... Read More

When Princeton University announced it would pursue budget cuts, the news landed with the force of a paradox: here was an institution sitting... Read More

A university system went all in on artificial intelligence — and now it's tearing itself apart. Read More

An intellectual tradition, not a partisan movement, is what the academy needs. As our most prestigious colleges seek to hire conservative... Read More

A proposal from Rep. Burgess Owens would establish an identity verification system to ensure bad actors aren’t stealing federal financial... Read More

Why a college degree is still worth it, even in 2026. Read More

In recent years, particularly since the pandemic, countless news articles have bemoaned a crisis in math learning. A consistent refrain is... Read More

For years, many educators – including the two of us – viewed the rapid expansion of technology in schools as largely positive. Schools... Read More

The latest education headline from The New York Times is that “U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’.” American... Read More

The latest big news in work-based learning is that Dartmouth College has raised a $30M endowment to support internships. Dartmouth students... Read More

America's education debate often focuses on curriculum battles and school funding. Yet one of the most consequential problems in K-12... 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

Six weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years... Read More

Absenteeism is a huge and seemingly intractable problem for the nation's public schools. And Michigan has one of the worst attendance rates... Read More

Can AI help students learn the skills of constructive dialogue? New evidence suggests yes, but the details matter more than you might expect. Read More

The so-called big, beautiful bill passed by Congress last summer has brought, and will continue to bring, changes to paying for education.... Read More

A growing number of churches have launched colleges in recent years, focused mostly on religious training and the business of churches and... Read More

Several Illinois Christian colleges have closed, merged, moved or halted new admissions in recent years, amid an increasingly challenging... Read More

I am often home alone in the evening with our two young children, carrying the weight of after school activities, dinner, bathtime all alone,... Read More

Within the past month, Stanford and Princeton ended honor codes that had governed student conduct for more than a century. Both universities... Read More