DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won't Be Studying: Guns
The education secretary told senators that the group isn’t tasked with studying the role of firearms in campus violence.
Education
The Rapid Retraction of a School-Shooting Video Game
… and what it says about gun violence in America today
Here’s How Higher Education Dies
A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. What does the slide look like?
The Trump Administration's Approach to School Violence Is More Style Than Substance
Despite several White House events related to campus massacres this week, the president and his team did little to assure Americans that there are serious policy changes under way.
Why Walmart Is Paying for Its Employees to Go to College
Subsidizing workers’ tuition is a good marketing move—and it should also help with the retail giant’s abysmal retention rate.
Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty
Amarillo College, in Texas, is working hard to accommodate low-income students—but it can only do so much.
The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement
Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
The Radical Supreme Court Decision That America Forgot
In Green v. New Kent County, the Court saw school desegregation as a reparative process—likely the closest thing to reparations that the American judicial system has ever endorsed.
The Two Most Important College-Admissions Criteria Now Mean Less
When so many students have outstanding grades and test scores, schools have to get creative about triaging applicants.
In Praise of Civility
Without respectful discourse, free speech isn’t much more than a hostile shouting match.