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Steve Helber / AP The Federal Government’s Reversal: Let the States Deal With Transgender Kids
The Departments of Education and Justice released revised guidelines on how schools should handle gender-identity issues.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Will the Senate Block Betsy DeVos?
Two Republican senators announce their opposition to President Trump’s nominee for education secretary. If all Democrats vote no, just one more GOP defection would defeat her.
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Eric Gay / AP Whose Interests Do College Diversity Officers Serve?
Administrative bloat is driving up the cost of higher education—without doing much to help the most vulnerable students.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters How Political Correctness Chills Speech on Campus
A documentary film-maker was disinvited from an academic conference because an organizer feared she would be subject to ideologically motivated reprisals for hosting him.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Problem With Public Colleges Going Tuition-Free
Hillary Clinton’s proposal to make public higher education more accessible to lower- and middle-income students could have the opposite effect.
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Issei Kato / Reuters What Began With Pepper Spray at UC Davis Ends With a Golden Parachute
Chancellor Linda Katehi, who wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to minimize the incident, has been forced to resign. But the public will keep paying her lavishly.
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David Goldman / AP The Church Camps That Aim to Bridge Race Relations
Religious communities across the United States host “Freedom Schools” to empower kids to change the world.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Asian Americans and the Future of Affirmative Action
The way members of the ‘model minority’ are treated in elite-college admissions could affect race-based standards moving forward.
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Carlos Jasso/Reuters What Should the Standard of Proof Be in Campus Rape Cases?
A new lawsuit takes aim at the Department of Education’s push to force colleges to decide cases based on “a preponderance of the evidence.”
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Ted S. Warren / AP The Challenge of Educational Inequality
With whites now making up less than half of America’s K-12 students, the country’s success or failure in the 21st century will be decided in the classroom.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters The High School That Banned Amnesty International
The rise of illiberal norms and the weakening of free speech continues to undermine the very causes valued by the American left.
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Eric Gay / AP When Jefferson and Madison Banned Guns on Campus
Today’s pro-gun politicians can’t avoid the fact that these founding fathers explicitly banned firearms from the university they founded.
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The Marmot / Flickr How To Be an Ally
College students are being told that “we cannot look at the world and say it is messed up and fix it without working on ourselves.” That is exactly the wrong advice to give them.
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Jim Young / Reuters 'Ban the Box' Goes to College
When schools ask applicants about their criminal histories, a veneer of campus safety may come at the expense of educational opportunity.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters A Costly Suspension for UC Davis's Embattled Chancellor
Linda Katehi has been put on paid leave for 90 days while investigators probe allegations of nepotism, conflicts of interest, and squandering public money on PR.
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Ano Lobb / Flickr Left Outside the Social-Justice Movement's Small Tent
Why a high school senior feels alienated from activist groups that share causes in which he believes.
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Brian Nguyen / Reuters How UC Davis Tried to Scrub Its Abuse of Students From the Web
The university spent at least $175,000 dollars to remove "references to the pepper spray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor."
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Ben Brewer / Reuters Civic Education in the Age of Trump
Public schools in the United States aren’t teaching students how to engage diverse opinions.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A Free-Speech Debate Devoid of Facts
A survey reveals how little commentators know about what students think about the First Amendment.
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Joe Mabel / Flickr Why Not Take a Black Studies Class?
Readers offer their insights and experiences to today’s college students and educators.
