Philadelphia overhauled admissions policies for magnet schools like Masterman. A legal challenge to those changes just got new life, and it could have broader implications.

A 2023 Supreme Court decision barred colleges from considering race in deciding who gets in. But what has resulted is anything but equitable.

For academics, historians and activists, the past year has been tumultuous in advocating the teaching of Black history in the ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...

T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...

Too much studying is harmful,’ Mao insisted, noting that few top scorers in the keju had gone on to accomplish great things. Two years later, the education system collapsed in the Cultural Revolution.

The pedagogical torture relies on random terror to break the integrity of an entire population and makes it plastic material for the teachings invented by technocrats. The belief that man can do what ...

Rutherford County Library System Director Luanne James filed four November complaints against board Chairman Cody York.

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all. By Mark Lilla Mark ...

The launch of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has accelerated the need for early education in AI literacy and readiness. Efforts by industry, academia and nonprofit organizations within ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

Last month, the Florida State Board of Education voted unanimously to adopt the Phoenix Declaration, which calls for a renewal of an American education system that “cultivates virtue, strives for ...