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Higher education in America is in crisis. In response, the Trump Administration proposed a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” sent first to nine major universities. Most of the ...

Republicans and Democrats across the country can seem hopelessly divided these days. But there is a path to common ground in a cause with proven bipartisan appeal: education reform. We recognize that ...

Mike Petrilli, the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, recently launched a new Substack, SCHOOLED, that he hopes might help foster common ground on issues like accountability, charter ...

State leaders should consider giving more authority to the governor in education, such as input in choosing the superintendent of education, according to a new report from the University of Michigan.

San Francisco’s public high schools recently tried to implement a massive change to their grading system— part of a “grading for equity” program under which students can pass with scores as low as 41 ...

Key Points ・Moving Education Department programs to other agencies doesn’t shrink government - it simply shifts the bureaucracy to a different office. ・Splitting oversight across agencies risks more ...

In my short time as a student teacher, I’ve already heard most of the ignorant assumptions about what teaching is: that with summers off and winter breaks, the job’s a cakewalk. Further criticism ...