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As freshmen flood college campuses across the U.S. this year, Harvard University has trumpeted the fact that its incoming first-year class of... Read More
The desire to protect young people from offensive ideas and words is an understandable instinct. In the context of bullying, it is a... Read More
The white nationalist Richard Spencer is scheduled to give a speech at the University of Florida on Thursday. It is to be his first campus... Read More
Protesters greeted white supremacist leader Richard Spencer with loud boos and chants of "Go home Spencer" during his speech Thursday... Read More
He's going to spend more than $1.7 billion, on top of the several billion he has already spent. Here's the plan. Read More
The political pileup around efforts to improve schools in Newark, New Jersey, could have come from a Tom Wolfe novel: An aggressive... Read More
President Donald J. Trump's administration may support a school choice measure for children from military families. Read More
Amazon recently sparked a competitive frenzy among U.S. cities when the Seattle-based company announced its search for a second corporate... Read More
On Thursday night in Richmond, Virginia, his first day back on the campaign trail since Donald Trump's inauguration, Barack Obama will give a... Read More
The “Yes Means Yes” bill was a big deal when Jerry Brown, the governor of California, signed it into law in 2014. Among other... Read More
A new Cornell University program aims to help liberal-arts students bring humanistic values to technology fields and address ethical... Read More
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's continuing attack on Central European University, founded by financier George Soros, is the product... Read More
For the past several decades, the nation has operated under a simple principle: The surest path to labor-market success is through a... Read More
Civic education is in a bad way and has been for some time. The latest report from the front is a video featuring some angry Berkeley... Read More
Earl Phalen is the incarnation of upending the status quo. In 1968, Phalen was adopted as an infant by George and Veronica Phalen into their... Read More
Since the Great Recession, the perennial debate about the value of the liberal arts has taken on a certain urgency. While the economy has... Read More
Chronic absenteeism in schools is like bacteria in hospitals — an invisible force undoing all the good work done elsewhere, one... Read More
We've known for a while—thanks to the National Assessment and other measures—that American primary-secondary students aren't... Read More
In 2014, a politically active real estate executive named Peter Barker was fined $170,000 by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission for... Read More
In its sixth year, the Blended and Personalized Learning Conference (BPLC) hosted by the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator, and... Read More
Years of irresponsible budgeting practices have left the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) almost $12 billion in debt. Without... Read More
The latest comprehensive federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), ushers in an unprecedented opportunity for states to... Read More
When Congress rewrote the federal education law in 2015, lawmakers sought to scale back the emphasis on standardized test scores in school... Read More
Although several studies have documented the effects of statewide private school choice programs on student test scores, this report is the... Read More
Children are naturally curious about the world around them, always asking, “Why?” “What is that?” “How does... Read More
New York City public charters have been much in the news of late for hitting it out of Yankee Stadium on student achievement. When Judge-ing... Read More
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RealClearEducation Thursday
A person trying to choose their next set of wheels might see that car A made it farther than car B in a road test and assume it gets better... Read More
Within the last week, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak announced the founding of “Woz U,” a digital institute designed to inspire... Read More
A public elementary school in Mississippi named after the president of the Confederacy will be renamed to honor the first black president of... Read More
A century ago, colleges cared if your ancestors came over on the Mayflower. Now some are demanding that when universities admit black... Read More
African-American students who borrowed to earn their bachelor's degrees are four times more likely to default on their student loans than... Read More
Every day you read another story about a speaker on campus being shouted down. The shouters apparently believe shutting up someone is their... Read More
On Capitol Hill and in hip-hop culture, as the saying goes, “word is bond.” Even those not inclined to adhere to this on... Read More
Why would you take school advice from Matt Damon? Read More
ROME — After reading the horrors in Dante's “Inferno,” Italian students will soon turn to the dangers of the digital age.... Read More
More high school students are taking college classes as districts push low-cost paths to higher degrees. The classes, often referred to as... Read More
On the eve of October's National Principals Month, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke to members of a national school principals... Read More
When Baltimore County Public Schools started giving every student a computer for daily use in the classroom, teachers sought out more online... Read More
Biology teacher Lori Treiber uses her blended-learning in-class days partly to focus on lab time, such as this introductory gel-electrophoresis lab. Read More
Today's Topics
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- STATES
- Arizona Schools Could Get a Do-Over on Their A-F Grades
- New Oklahoma Testing Standards Produce a Drop in Scores
- Manhattan Beach Special Education Teacher Killed in Vegas Shooting
- Former Gov. John Engler Appointed by DeVos to National Assessment Governing Board
- Ohio Lawmakers Mulling Possible Change to School Report Cards
- Bricks Without Straw: Maryland's ESSA Accountability Plan
- Alabama State Chief Quits Just Days Before ESSA Plan Due
- Round Rock Attorney Resigns Following Betsy DeVos Tweet
- Indiana Private School Bans Confederate Symbols
- DeVos Approves Oregon's ESSA Plan
- EDUCATION'S BIG QUESTIONS
- The Lasting Value of a Classical Liberal Arts Education
- How the Liberal Arts Can Prepare You for a Career in Medicine
- Video: the Case for Private Education
- Why Study the Classics?
- The Problem With 'Privilege'
- Can Literature Make Us Moral?
- Americans Are Divided on Whether College Degrees Are Worth It
- Dear Students, Don't Be a Commodity
- What Intellectual Virtues Might an Adult Learn From a Child’s Curiosity?
- Is Good Character Caught or Taught?
- Is Curiosity Essential for Human Flourishing?
- PODCASTS
- New Skills Marketplace: Charter Schools and CTE
- Education Gadfly Show: The Thing About School Closures
- Beyond the States: Episode 5
- Cult of Pedagogy: Episode 79
- New Skills Marketplace: Community Colleges and Apprenticeships
- The Teach Better Podcast
- EdSurge Podcast
- Education Gadfly Show: New Report on Teacher Absenteeism
- HIGHER ED
- Why Does College Cost So Much?
- College of the Ozarks Won't Play Opponents Who Kneel During National Anthem
- Harvard Law School Marks Ties to Slavery in New Plaque
- Purdue University Introduces 3-Year Degree Program
- UNC Says No to Speech by White Nationalist Richard Spencer
- Building a 21st Century Workforce
- 40 Percent of 2-Year College Grads Earn a Bachelor's Degree
- Study Finds Oklahoma Leads US With Higher Education Cuts
- Picking Up the Pieces in Illinois
- DeVos Presses Pause on Gainful Employment Regulations
