Before you invest your money in going to a particular college, you should figure out if a school is financially healthy enough to keep its doors open, two veteran college administrators warn.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Higher eduation
Analysis and Comment
A cognitive scientist observes that the words that bother college-age Americans today can cause harm.
Faced with uncertainty over their next meal, teens in a Texas study reveal the various things they resort to in order to put food on the family table.
Nearly a decade after Tyler Clementi's death, there are growing efforts to do more to protect students like him from their peers.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child is empowering children around the world by encouraging them to see themselves as important and valuable members of society.
When it comes to completing homework, getting organized and celebrating small victories along the way is key, an expert on learning strategies says.
Could these extra hands do more for the nonprofits they assist?
Throughout the nation, parents and students are pushing back against personalized learning. An expert on the different ways that students learn explains what's behind all the fuss.
Research and News
Children ask a lot of questions, but they're not always good ones.
Universal screenings for childhood trauma, like the ones being implemented for California students, may cause more harm than good, a scholar argues.
Higher education
A new law in Washington state that makes college mostly free for many students is meant to prepare more residents from the state for jobs in the local economy. Whether it will work remains to be seen.
An economist takes a critical look at a proposal to tax Wall Street to pay off the nation's student debt.
Social justice
A recent gift by billionaire Robert Smith to pay off the student loans of 2019 graduates of Morehouse points to the potential of America's black elite to pay off all black students' college loans.
A professor of information discusses how an app she developed can help solve the problem of schools failing to report when students are restrained or secluded.
Research and Expert Database
The children who suffered lead poisoning as a result of the Flint water crisis of 2014 are likely to struggle academically and socially as a result, an expert on treating lead-poisoned children argues.
The federal government isn't the only one that has banned student financial aid to prisoners. Many states have enacted their own bans as well, new research shows.
Rather than bypass college to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams, members of Generation Z are increasingly partnering with universities to launch new startups, a university president says.
A number of states are considering laws to put charter school growth on pause, saying they drain resources from public schools. A school finance expert explains the logic behind the efforts.
Though largely political and symbolic, the campus free speech order that President Trump issued matters because it ties millions of federal research dollars to how well colleges protect free speech.
Even if wealthy parents don't resort to the kind of illegal tactics in the recent college cheating scandal revealed by the FBI, the college admission process still favors the rich, scholars argue.
A political scientist warns that a new lobbying initiative launched by Bill and Melinda Gates could harm US higher education.
A scientist explains how she got a glimpse into the secret world of butterflies and her hopes of encouraging more Latinos to enter the field of science.
While many studies and news articles say children lose academically over the summer break, a researcher says the worries are exaggerated.
Simple math reveals some surprising facts about the underlying structure of Facebook and other social networks.
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