I became an American citizen through a process called “naturalization.” The term appears in the Constitution, but it is much... Read More

Public schools have an important civic purpose beyond reading and math. Read More

For social studies teachers, the founding of the United States and July 4th--particularly this July 4th--presents an array of contradictions. Read More

The Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Education tried to assess the extent and impact of the Trump Administration’s... Read More

New York’s rules for shutting down preschools are bad for families—and bad for New York. Read More

Between historical revisionism and higher ed reform, this week speaks to the tensions in our country and marks a historical moment for the... Read More

Attention student loan borrowers: Major changes are coming your way, starting Wednesday. Read More

Thousands of borrowers applied to enroll their student loans in the new Repayment Assistance Plan within the first 24 hours of the program... Read More

Loans capped at $20,500 a year and new ways to repay them are in store Read More

A Chalkbeat survey of Colorado’s largest school districts shows that most adopted cellphone restrictions in response to a new state law. Read More

Politicians think faculty members don’t teach enough. Here’s what the data says. Read More

Workforce Pell starts July 1, but this is neither deadline nor due date. Read More

As of this writing, 31 states have opted into (or signaled their intent to opt into) the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit. 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

The failure of much educational technology is fueling a broad anti-screen movement. But artificial intelligence forces a difficult... Read More

The following is a personal reminiscence given in 2016 at a memorial conference in honor of Mark A. Kishlansky, who was Frank B. Baird, Jr.,... Read More

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3, upholding West Virginia's and Idaho's laws that bar transgender athletes who identify as women from competing in... Read More

Whatever your views on transgender athletes and sports, it is important to see the bigger picture: these bans are about far more than... Read More

Last summer, Congress put in place a new system of federal accountability for colleges that will force institutional leaders to grapple with... Read More

Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said Tuesday that the agency needs to make the process for college mergers, acquisitions and even closures “a... Read More

States that ambitiously pledged to cut chronic absenteeism in half are doing better than national average, but it’s not enough, one expert... Read More

The U.S. Dept. of Education called chronic absenteeism a crisis in 2015. The rate of students missing school regularly has only soared since... Read More

The loan limits are just one set of new policies taking effect this week that are expected to reshape higher education. Read More

New research is giving us a clearer picture of student outcomes, but we still don’t know enough about what happens to young people after... Read More

For centuries, scrolls burned to a crisp by Vesuvius seemed permanently sealed. Now AI is helping scholars recover books the ancient world... Read More