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These are deep investigations—from kindergarten to college—into school choice, the misallocation of resources, and how we can fix our broken school system.
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Bring Back the SAT
California universities dropped the SAT to help low-income and minority students. The policy is doing the opposite.
Svetlana Jitomirskaya
Conservatives Took Over a Progressive College. What Happened Next?
New College has lots of new professors and students, but campus life feels less like an ideological battlefield than, well, a normal college.
Jonas Du
A Medical Student Took His Own Life. His Parents Blame the School.
After an accusation of wrongdoing and a late-night email from a school dean, Vaibhav Duggal died by suicide. Is the school responsible?
Frannie Block
The SAT Is Back. But Is There a Better Alternative?
Jeremy Tate thinks the SAT is way too easy—so he invented the Classic Learning Test. He says he’s ‘in a battle to save Western civilization.’
Maya Sulkin
Victory for Harvard’s Anti–Grade Inflation Crusader
‘It’s about time,’ says retired professor Harvey Mansfield, who fought the epidemic of too many A’s for over 50 years. Harvard finally agrees.
Novi Zhukovsky
Stanford’s War on the Western Canon
A faculty member explains why he voted against Stanford’s new general education program, and what the curriculum reveals about the university’s retreat…
Iván Marinovic
How Teachers’ Unions Became Political Big Spenders
A new report claims national teachers’ unions are operating more like Democratic funding machines than groups advocating for their rank and file.
Frannie Block
The School Trying to Rebuild Education for an AI World
Maya Sulkin visits Alpha School, where there are no teachers, classes last two hours, and students earn $100 for a perfect test. Is this the future of…
Maya Sulkin
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Lawmakers Accuse Brown of Putting ‘Anti-Police Activism’ Ahead of Public Safety
A letter denounced years ‘of eager capitulation’ before the December shooting that killed two students and injured nine.
Tanner Nau
How Harvard’s Reparations Plan Flopped
Four years ago, Harvard committed $100 million in part to compensate descendants of people enslaved by university’s leaders. ‘I don’t think Harvard…
Novi Zhukovsky
I Go to Cornell. There Is No Reason to Fire Its President.
Michael Kotlikoff is facing backlash after allegedly hitting students while pulling out of a campus event. That’s far from the full story.
Noah Farb
Can Dartmouth Save the Ivy League?
College president Sian Beilock had protesters arrested, defied faculty, and has said American universities lost their way. They can fix themselves, or…
Jonas Du
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