The Colleges Are Watching

With access to predictive analytics and more data than ever before, how can universities avoid invading students’ privacy while promoting academic success?

• Mikhail Zinshteyn
• Nov 1, 2016

Why Do Colleges Have So Much Art?

Campus museums are home to prodigious exhibits and installations that blur the line between academics and civics.

• Jacoba Urist
• Nov 1, 2016

Is Attending the ‘Best’ High School Academically Irrelevant?

A new study shows that the competition to get into selective-enrollment schools may not be worth it.

• Matt Barnum
• Oct 31, 2016

Trump-Supporting Republicans Face a Backlash on College Campuses

Tensions between liberal and conservative students have escalated as a result of the election.

• Clare Foran
• Oct 31, 2016

The Need to Validate Vocational Interests

Assuming college is always the best option turns career-minded students away from true learning.

• Ashley Lamb-Sinclair
• Oct 31, 2016

Why the Mountain West Is Still Holding Out on Pre-K

The region's individualist ethos and unique demographic breakdown have resulted in a lack of early-education investment.

• David Loewenberg
• Oct 28, 2016

The Problem With How Higher Education Treats Diversity

What is lost when disadvantaged students are forced to commodify their backgrounds for the sake of college admissions?

• Rose Courteau
• Oct 28, 2016

Jill Biden's Push to Make Community College Free

The second lady has made expanding access to higher education a priority in recent years.

• Emily DeRuy
• Oct 27, 2016

Light Research Hasn't Slowed Pre-K Expansion

In a rush to adopt popular early-education programs, policymakers have not always evaluated what actually works for children.

• Hayley Glatter
• Oct 27, 2016

How the Internet Is Complicating the Art of Teaching

Educators design lots of lessons and other learning resources, and increasingly they’re being shared online—often free of cost and in ways that are too personalized to be universally applicable.

• Abigail Walthausen
• Oct 26, 2016

The End of a Labor Strike at the World’s Wealthiest University

The university has the largest endowment in the United States, but workers said they couldn’t pay basic living expenses.

• Emily DeRuy
• Oct 25, 2016

The Higher-Education Crisis Beneath a Civil War

Thousands of Syrian students’ schooling is on pause, and though many would like to continue their learning in America, immigration policies make that all but impossible.

• Jon Marcus
• Oct 25, 2016

The Racial Disparity of the Student-Loan Crisis

The answer seems to be tied in large part to the types of graduate schools people attend.

• Emily DeRuy
• Oct 24, 2016

When For-Profit Colleges Prey on Unsuspecting Students

Without access to counseling in high school, many ambitious yet disadvantaged students still end up in schools where they’re most likely to drop out and accrue lots of debt.

• Melinda D. Anderson
• Oct 24, 2016

When Colleges Forget the Calendar and Focus on Mastery Instead

Competency-based education allows students to progress through topics as they master them and could help reach underserved populations.

• Natalie Gross
• Oct 21, 2016

The Gendered Past of Typing Education

A quirky QWERTY history

• Hayley Glatter
• Oct 20, 2016

The Most Popular Office on Campus

Demand for mental-health resources has increased, but that doesn’t mean today’s college students are less resilient.

• Isabella Kwai
• Oct 19, 2016

A Plan to Teach Every Child Computer Science

A group of nonprofits and educators wants all students, even kindergartners, to know the fundamentals.

• Emily DeRuy
• Oct 19, 2016

How the LSAT Destroys Socioeconomic Diversity

The Logic Games section forces test takers to master a new type of thinking—and that knowledge is not cheap.

• Caroline Kitchener
• Oct 18, 2016