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This past October, the Trump administration invited nine universities to respond to a proposed White House Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. The proposal includes both foundational ...

Last year's Paris Summer Olympics put a spotlight on the impact of college sports in America. Current and former NCAA athletes earned over 300 medals, and about a third came from our Atlantic Co ...

After I published a reflection on Vice President Dick Cheney's passing, one of my former students--now at Brown University--sent me a note that stopped me cold. "Your students&rs ...

It's been almost 250 years since those first Revolutionaries declared that "all men are created equal ." This summer offers the unique chance to celebrate a momentous birth ...

Much of America is still trying to get its head around the idea of "school choice." But in Florida, the state that's been leading the charge for a quarter century, more than 100,000 ...

Most high school seniors and their parents currently have college at the top of mind. Early application deadlines are approaching, and students are frantically writing their application essays. But it ...

I was an educator for more than 25 years, most recently as a special education and English teacher at Harrisonburg City Public Schools in Virginia. During that time, I saw how keeping parents involved ...

The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is over -- at least for now -- but you wouldn't know that if you asked America's largest and most influential teachers' union. The ...

In the years since Hamas's October 7 attack, America's universities have become moral barometers, and many have failed the test. At Columbia, encampments replaced classrooms. At Harvard, s ...

The education tax credit included in the "One Big Beautiful" act has the potential to drive tens of billions of dollars toward private school scholarships, as well as tutoring programs in ...