The long war over affirmative action turned hot again last week, as Harvard and lawyers for Asian-American applicants duked it out in a... Read More

Last week witnessed two events, both involving Harvard University and the enigma of ethnic diversity. On October 15, the trial of Harvard... Read More

Two very different approaches to education reform began to take shape almost three decades ago, just one year apart. One — centralized... Read More

What should Americans know about ancient history? Given how little today's high school students seem to know about recent history, any... Read More

Educational psychologist David Berliner is one of this country's most distinguished education researchers. Regents' professor emeritus at... Read More

Starting in September of 2020, schoolchildren across the United Kingdom will learn from their teachers how to fend off loneliness.In January,... Read More

have been thinking a lot lately about bullying in schools, as a parent, citizen and executive director of a nonprofit that works closely with... Read More

There is a moment in former University of Chicago President Hanna Gray's memoir, An Academic Life (published this spring with Princeton... Read More

Colleges and universities around the U.S. are facing a profound enrollment crisis. The number of students entering American institutions of... Read More

With political attacks and civil unrest on the rise, and the tolerance for free speech rapidly declining, Michelle Obama offered a glimpse of... Read More

The frenzy over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has subsided, but the casualties keep piling up. Among them is William... Read More

Graduate from high school. Go to college. Earn a degree. Get a good job. Live happily ever after.The conventional path to success in the... Read More

At a time of deepening racial and political divisions among Americans, a trial widely perceived to be a referendum on affirmative action will... Read More

For much of the past two years, congressional Democrats hoping to have a say in federal higher ed policy have had the door repeatedly slammed... Read More

Cara Stillings Candal is a senior fellow at Boston's Pioneer Institute and has spent the past 10 years studying and writing about... Read More

PRINT | NO PDF | SHAREWINTER 2019 / VOL. 19, NO. 1“A national disgrace.” That's how Brett Kavanaugh chose to... Read More

Now is that time of year when the seasons change, fall leaves become noticeable, and small talk is peppered with quips and opinions about... Read More

A new Gallup poll reveals that only 48 percent of Americans have "'a great deal' or 'quite a lot' of confidence" in the United States' higher... Read More

Five years ago when Ohio State University announced a $400-million plan to hire 500 professors over 10 years, officials specified that the... Read More

Vermont is in the early stages of adopting a new approach to funding special education services for children with disabilities. For nearly... Read More

Across the country, millions of college freshmen have spent the last few weeks starting classes, getting to know roommates and adjusting to... Read More

With one month left before the midterm elections, voters have a lot of big decisions to make as they prepare to choose between candidates... Read More

I was chief researcher and in-house editor for The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In the book, we... Read More

Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell was on the fence in 1978. The court had before it the case of a 35-year-old white man, Allan Bakke, who... Read More