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In January, the Department of Education (ED) put out a new tool that tracks foreign financing of American higher education. For the first time, the American public has an unfiltered glimpse into the t ...

Walk into a college library today, and you will see something that feels almost old-fashioned: students sitting quietly together, reading, debating, and working through problems side by side. La ...

Financial aid offices have only months to prevent avoidable disruption to graduate enrollment. Last summer's reconciliation legislation, often referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), r ...

We are living through a period of profound polarization. Trust is low. Civic friendship is frayed. Many Americans increasingly see one another not as fellow citizens, but as adversaries. By some measu ...

Some of the strongest schools in America, the ones parents actively choose because they deliver results, are now facing an existential threat. It's not because they failed their students. Instea ...

Many believe that artificial intelligence lowers the academic bar for K-12 students by outsourcing thinking to machines. But evidence suggests that AI raises the academic bar. That ...

America's reading crisis isn't news. But a legislative solution is--and it's popping up in statehouses across the country. That's a welcome development, given what the dat ...

For decades, the Department of Education has operated the federal student loan system on autopilot, continually expanding its size, complexity, and cost. The result is a $1.7 trillion portfolio &mdash ...

Danville, Ill., is my hometown. Fewer than one in eight students there can read proficiently. Even fewer can do math at grade level. Last month, hundreds of those same students walked ...

New Jersey is the latest state to adopt a bell-to-bell school cell phone ban, joining at least 38 other states that have adopted similar restrictions in an effort to reclaim the school day from the gl ...