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At 11 years old, I refused a smartphone--not because my parents said no, but because I was afraid I would become addicted.I couldn't really explain my hesitation at the time. I simply watched ...

For generations, education has been confined to four walls, desks arranged in rows, and a curriculum increasingly disconnected from the world students are preparing to enter. Sadly, the majority of st ...

The president of Sarah Lawrence College, Cristle Collins Judd, recently posted a photograph of her Harvard faculty badge to Instagram and LinkedIn, noting that it was her third year serving on th ...

In How the Other Half Learns, the portrait of the New York-based charter giant Success Academy, Robert Pondiscio argues that no-excuses charters like Success don't "cherry pick" stud ...

At their convention earlier this month, the National Education Association (NEA) -- the nation's largest teachers union -- elected a team of social justice advocates,&nb ...

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson's warning remains timely today. A free p ...

In an era when many education leaders are focused on maintaining the status quo, Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder has chosen a different path. Her bold leadership, meanin ...

The University of Austin (UATX) recently did something that should be commonplace in higher education but is surprisingly rare. The new university posted its entire undergraduate reading list online&n ...

American higher education has become one of the many products that gets more expensive the more the government helps you buy it. Since the turn of the century, average tuition has climbed roughly 157 ...

American universities are not facing one crisis. They are facing a financial squeeze, a demographic squeeze, a credibility-and-integrity squeeze and an identity squeeze, all at once. For decades, the ...