In an online discussion about educational testing, an exasperated education professional interjected that the whole discussion was moot. Had there ever been even a single study showing any benefit acc ...
I teach my students to read Plato while their parents calculate the ROI on a philosophy degree. Seventeen years of teaching at a liberal-arts college have shown me both the beauty and limits of the ol ...
Higher education's latest moral compact shows how far it has drifted from real inquiry. Earlier this fall, the president of Sarah Lawrence College shared that the school had signed the Higher Educatio ...
Higher education provides more stories that deserve public attention than Aesop had fables. But like Aesop's accounts of loquacious animals, the incidents on campus often have a pungent mo ...
The most exciting example of AI's potential in education isn't a chatbot or digital tutor-it comes from a large language model named Centaur. Recently published in Nature, Cent ...
What happens when an unstoppable force slams into an immovable object? Higher education is, if nothing else, an incredibly conservative and stable institution; in fact, no institution (except for the ...
This fall, millions of students across the country began the school year under new "bell-to-bell" cellphone bans. Early signs are encouraging -- teachers report calmer classrooms and ...
Higher education institutions are confronting surging health plan rates and costs that erode revenues and exacerbate tuition pressures. Colleges and universities allocate billions of dollars annually ...
Now that Congress has resolved the government shutdown, attention is turning to what comes next. For Republicans, that likely means early planning for a second round of reconciliation--call it Re ...
On Monday night, UC Berkeley was the stage of a sadly familiar scene, with police struggling to contain fires, vandalism, and assaults outside the final stop of Turning Point USA's campus tour.