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With recent federal budget discussions around the Department of Education, many teachers have felt anxious and uncertain about the future of education. In April, we recently surveyed a national sample ...

We are losing our minds. We have no national vision for learning in our society. No clue about what we want to produce. No industrial policy. No human capital strategy for the development and su ...

The single most important responsibility of college trustees is picking the college president. The task is difficult because so few people measure up to the job. And it is all the more difficult becau ...

At a recent dinner party with people who would define themselves as "very liberal," someone asked me whether my new center-left employer was uncomfortable with my long record of advocacy f ...

The U.S. Supreme Court got it right in a win for religious liberty in Mahmoud v. Taylor on June 27. Parents have a fundamental right to direct the moral and religious upbringing of their chi ...

"Liberty is the great parent of science and virtue," wrote Thomas Jefferson in a 1789 letter to the President of Harvard. "A nation will be great in both always in proportion as it i ...

Jews and teachers unions have long stood side-by-side. Indeed, the legendary Al Shanker, who founded New York's United Federation of Teachers and, during his 23-year tenure as president of the A ...

Data on high school students from the Centers for Disease Control is dark. 29 percent experience poor mental health, and 42 percent have persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness. One in five has ...

It is time to be brutally honest about AI in education, especially now that the race is on among tech companies to secure lucrative relationships with schools. As indicated by a recent New York Times ...

Accreditation is typically the benchmark that signals a college's value and reliability to peers and prospective students. Students look for accreditation to ensure they choose a reputable institution ...