Rick, I sense a heartening trend in the “education reform” conversation: More and more folks are starting to ask the right ...

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

What time should the school day begin? School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others ...

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 ...

As one of the top high school football prospects in the nation, quarterback Trent Seaborn could be a marketable commodity in the NIL landscape. But neither his name, image, nor likeness are likely to ...

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 ...

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Graduates of Teachers College, Columbia University, Class of 2022 celebrate the successful completion of degree requirements in the fields of education, health and psychology on Monday, May 23, 2022.

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 ...

In a Spring 2024 Education Next article, I argued that, despite the conventional wisdom that students were all in on artificial intelligence (AI), many in high school and college felt deeply anxious ...

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 ...

On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing ...