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Without exception, the chatbots rejected the “college-for-all” mindset. None responded with an oversimplified “yes, you ...

Geoffrey Kocks, a research associate at Blueprint Labs and PhD student at MIT, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Kocks’ ...

In my brief time working as a charter school operations director, I was, in my early thirties, one of the oldest members of ...

Children are no exception. Yes, they are capable of generosity, curiosity, and grace; they are also capable of cruelty, ...

This article is part of a new Education Next series commemorating the 50th anniversary of James S. Coleman’s groundbreaking report, “Equality of Educational Opportunity.” The full series will appear ...

The staffing numbers intuitively match what observers have experienced as an expansion of federal laws and regulations—red tape—that required administrators to comply with. Are schools really spending ...

It is amazing how easy the Internet has made it to get books. The volumes emperors and scholars once scoured the earth to obtain are today available at the click of a button—and sometimes delivered to ...

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Detroit is a classic story of a once-thriving city that has lost its employment base, its upper and middle classes, and much of its hope for the future. The city has been on a long, slow decline for ...

Arne Duncan served as U.S. secretary of education under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2016, following a seven-year tenure as the superintendent of the Chicago public schools. During his time at ...

In his 2009 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama challenged Americans to “commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training…. Every American,” he said, “will ...