The Developing Norms for Reopening Schools After Shootings
In an age where such tragedies are increasingly common, a shared blueprint is emerging.
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Corey Brickley The Third Education Revolution
Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy.
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Mark Humphrey/AP The Era of Affirmative Action May Not Last Much Longer
Two pieces of recent news signal a future in which America’s colleges and universities are even whiter than they are today.
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Santi S / Africa Studio / hansslegers / ... Code Now. Pay Tuition Later.
Coding schools are offering free classes in exchange for a percentage of future income. But at what cost?
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Gerry Broome / AP The Rise of College ‘Grade Forgiveness’
Universities are letting students take classes over again—a consequence of the pressure schools feel to ensure their “customers” are satisfied.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Should America’s Universities Stop Taking So Many International Students?
Critics say the country’s higher-education institutions should focus on ensuring more Americans get four-year degrees, but college presidents highlight the benefits of global diversity on campus.
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Zoran Milich / Reuters The Many Possible Meanings of the ‘Masculinity Crisis’
A lot of people contend that American men are in crisis. But which men? And what is the nature of that crisis?
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Sait Serkan Gurbuz / Reuters Charlottesville’s Divides Are America’s Divides
The city still has not healed from the events of last August.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Harvard's Impossible Personality Test
New revelations from a lawsuit against the university capture the difficulty of comparing thousands upon thousands of talented teenagers.
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cristinairanzo / Getty Why Are Rich, White Girls Struggling in Math?
A new study reveals the extent to which children’s geographic surroundings contribute to gender disparities in schools.
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Fabian Bimmer / Reuters The College-Graduation Problem All States Have
Across the country, black and Latino adults are far less likely to hold a college degree than white adults. Can better support for colleges that serve a high percentage of minorities change that?
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Steven Senne / AP The Long, Contentious History of the ‘Word Gap’ Study
A 1995 study which suggested that kids from richer families are exposed to more spoken words than those from poorer families has long been the subject of controversy. Now, a new study fails to replicate its central finding.
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Mary Altaffer / AP What’s Going On With New York’s Elite Public High Schools?
A fight over admissions is making all too clear the value of securing a seat at one of the city’s finest schools.
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Victor Ruiz Garcia / Reuters The Controversy Over Just How Much History AP World History Should Cover
The College Board recently announced that it will no longer test students on the thousands of years that predated European colonialism.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address
At Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Mitch Daniels Urges Graduates to Resist Tribalism
The former Indiana governor, who leads Purdue University, believes that the hostility Americans are now showing one another is a threat to democracy.
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Ian Waldie / Getty The Confusing Information Colleges Provide Students About Financial Aid
Families need clarity when it comes to figuring out how much higher education is going to cost them. Unfortunately, that's not what they're getting.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP 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.
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Ariana Cubillos / AP The Rapid Retraction of a School-Shooting Video Game
… and what it says about gun violence in America today
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Wang Zhao / AFP / Getty Here’s How Higher Education Dies
A futurist says the industry may have nowhere to go but down. What does the slide look like?
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Loren Elliott / Reuters 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.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 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.
