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The most important teaching I do in a course sometimes happens before we open a book, assign a reading, or discuss an idea. I was reminded of this by a recent New York Times interview with the Ya ...

For years, many educators - including the two of us - viewed the rapid expansion of technology in schools as largely positive. Schools invested heavily in laptops, tablets, learning manage ...

As our nation approaches its 250th birthday, the question is not whether we will mark the occasion. The parades, lectures, and commemorative coins are already in motion. The real question is whether t ...

The latest education headline from The New York Times is that "U.S. Test Scores Are in a 'Generation-Long Decline'." American students are doing worse on reading and mathematic ...

Foreign influence is reaching into our children's schools in Texas and around the United States. Kids are being exposed to lesson plans and textbooks stained with propaganda and even antisemitis ...

The NYU Executive Committee of the Student Government Assembly expressed "profound disappointment" that their graduation speaker was to be internationally renowned social psychologist Jona ...

Dear Graduates: It is now the middle of college graduation season, and we will not be making any commencement addresses. One of us is a former president of several major universities who will mark the ...

I want to say something to the Class of 2026 that Sarah Lawrence College did not say at Commencement. They deserve to hear it plainly. On May 8, 2026, Sarah Lawrence held its 98th commencement in the ...

A recent House Education and Workforce Committee investigation into antisemitism revealed that Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative had received over $630,000 dollars from Qatar&r ...

The word "Semiquincentennial" is linguistically optimistic. It doesn't mean 250 down or complete. It means "half way" (semi) to "five hundred" (quincentennial ...