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We all want students to succeed, so the publication of national test results naturally launches a scramble to interpret the scores and figure... Read More
Both of us are black women in leadership positions: one a congresswoman, the other the president of a national non-profit organization.... Read More
April is Community College Awareness Month. Community colleges have provided the path for millions of Americans to reach the goals they have... Read More
Why do Millennials like socialism? According to a recent poll, 58 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 have a favorable view of... Read More
Can the average humanities professor be blamed if she rises in the morning, checks the headlines, shivers, looks in the mirror, and beholds a... Read More
Is this just a gratifying dream or a frightful, dangerous fancy: to have a government agency that cracks down on the sources of intellectual... Read More
National news stories have frequently framed the Oklahoma teacher walkout as a “red-state revolt,” a sudden explosion of... Read More
As I write this, the Oklahoma teachers strike has entered its second week. Large-scale protests have also taken place in Kentucky and... Read More
Broward County, Fla., school officials portray as a great success their Obama administration-inspired program offering counseling to students... Read More
Broken laptops, books held together with duct tape, an art teacher who makes watercolors by soaking old markers.Teacher protests have spread... Read More
Every year, the Department of Education issues billions of dollars in student loans. And every year, outside companies are contracted to... Read More
Steven Pinker's new book, Enlightenment Now, moves along quickly and lucidly, as one expects from a practiced popular speaker and writer. Its... Read More
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968. Since that time, much has been written and said about this “drum major for... Read More
Derek Bok was named president of Harvard not once but twice: in 1971, after anti-Vietnam War protests of 1969 had left students' blood on his... Read More
When news broke February 16 that D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson had been caught leveraging the power of his position to secure... Read More
Black students in San Francisco would be better off almost anywhere else in California. Many attend segregated schools and the majority of... Read More
In this new year, we are experiencing a drastic change in the way U.S. students are assessed. A national movement led by educators, parents... Read More
Cramped inside phone booths at our co-working office space in Lower Manhattan, reporters at The 74 kept their phones busy in 2017. There were... Read More
The Associated Press recently published an analysis that claims charter schools increase segregation in America's public schools. Read More
This report presents findings from a unique partnership between the University of Michigan and the State that allowed us to match the... Read More
Until last year, our understanding of how many students obtained a college degree was surprisingly limited, as the federal graduation rate... Read More
When Congress rewrote the federal No Child Left Behind Act to give states greater flexibility in measuring school performance, lawmakers... Read More
A recent commentary piece in the New York Times generated a flurry of debate over the proper use of technology in college classrooms. At... Read More
The 2017 update of Massachusetts' English and math K-12 academic standards represents further deterioration in English, while the math... Read More
One important question about school discipline is whether it helps or harms those being disciplined. But a second, equally important question... Read More
Programs that offer high school students the chance to earn college credit should be designed with four key principles in mind to ensure high... Read More
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RealClearEducation Tuesday
School choice remains a popular concept across the nation. A recent national poll by the American Federation for Children found that 63... Read More
Starting in prekindergarten, black boys and girls were disciplined at school far more than their white peers in 2013-2014, according to... Read More
Race advocates and the media are greeting a new Government Accountability Office report on racial disparities in school discipline... Read More
AS the Republican tax bill, which President Trump signed into law on December 22, wound its way through the legislative process,... Read More
The reader and personal friend I spoke of in this morning's post writes about why he decided that he has no future in academia, even though... Read More
Students at Howard University occupied the campus's Johnson Administration Building in protest in 1968. They did so again in 1989. Those... Read More
Thousands of teachers and public workers from across Kentucky flocked to the state Capitol on Monday morning to protest potential budget cuts... Read More
About 5,000 teachers rallied at the Kentucky State Capitol on Monday to protest the passage last week of a pension reform measure... Read More
It's a funny thing about pendulums. Once they switch direction, they go for a good while. And it looks like we're in the midst of an... Read More
Around seven years ago, I had a standard wisecrack to explain the standing of workers in the world's two dominant economies: “China has... Read More
A surprising number of my acquaintances have precocious children. On social media, I have seen ninety-nine variations of “my... Read More
What differentiates the Mayfield Innovation Center from traditional classrooms is evident not just in the virtual reality technology, the 3-D... Read More
About 5,000 teachers rallied at the Kentucky State Capitol on Monday to protest the passage last week of a pension reform measure that...well, it doesn't actually do much of anything to change their retirement plans.But the bill might help bring Kentucky's public sector retirement plans back from the brink of financial collapse.Under the terms of the bill that zipped through the legislature on T Read More
Today's Topics
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- STATES
- Loyola Chicago Adjuncts on Strike
- Which States Are on a Hot Streak Coming Into the 2017 NAEP Release?
- Adjunct Professors Step up Their Efforts to Increase Pay
- Oakland's New Superintendent Is a Homegrown Leader for a District in Financial Turmoil
- Wisconsin Students Protest Plan to Drop Liberal Arts Majors
- State Board Postpones Vote on Revising California's Education Plan
- Man Accuses Superintendent of Bullying Him When They Were Kids
- New York City Continues to Withhold Teacher Misconduct Records
- How State Legislators Can Improve Higher Education
- Talent Pipeline Is the Key to Bringing Jobs to N Carolina
- Devos OKs ESSA Plans for Minnesota, WV
- EDUCATION'S BIG QUESTIONS
- The Case for a College Honor Code
- How to Make Elite Colleges Less Elitist
- The Lasting Value of a Classical Liberal Arts Education
- How the Liberal Arts Can Prepare You for a Career in Medicine
- 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
- PODCASTS
- What's Happened to the University?
- Empowering the Young to End Chicago's Gun Violence
- Check State Plans Podcast Series
- Education Gadfly Show: Do ESSA Plans Deserve Our Thanks?
- New Skills Marketplace: Workforce Development
- Nevertheless: Building the Workplace We Want
- New Skills Marketplace: Corporate Education
- Education Gadfly Show: Much Ado About DeVos
- New Skills Marketplace: Charter Schools and CTE
- Education Gadfly Show: The Thing About School Closures
- Cult of Pedagogy: Episode 79
- HIGHER ED
- WeWork Acquires Flatiron School
- 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
