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August 12, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Betsy DeVos Says She’d Work for Trump Again—on One Condition
Trump’s former education secretary once bravely criticized him. Now she says she’d consider a return.
April 17, 2024
Grace Segers
How the Dream of a Financial Aid Upgrade Became a Nightmare
A botched rollout of a new FAFSA form could mean that dramatically fewer students enroll in college in the fall.
June 9, 2021
Melissa Gira Grant
Will Biden’s Obsession With Compromise Poison His Agenda on LGBTQ Rights?
An opaque court filing in an anti-LGBTQ discrimination case has advocates asking if this administration will “bargain down” the rights of students to reach an uneasy peace with Republicans.
September 22, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
The Accelerating Attack on Trans Student Athletes
The Trump administration’s fight to dismantle trans students’ rights is a reminder of how fragile Supreme Court victories really are.
August 5, 2019
Roger Sollenberger
Higher Education Faces a Turning Point
The right's opportunistic obsession with left-wing bias at U.S. colleges and universities threatens to destroy one of the pillars of national unity.
September 1, 2017
Graham Vyse
Why Does America Keep Falling for “Sham Schools”?
The country has a long, maddening history with for-profit colleges—and the blame is bipartisan.
February 1, 2017
Alex Shephard
Is Betsy DeVos doomed?
May 4, 2015
David Dayen
Student Debt Strikers: Education Department Is "Using Us" for a "Publicity Stunt"
January 23, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
What Obama's New Task Force Should Do to Fight College Rape
October 30, 2013
Blaine Greteman
Federal Bureaucrats Declare 'Hunger Games' More Complex Than 'The Grapes of Wrath'
The Common Core's absurd new reading guidelines
September 27, 2013
Diane Ravitch
Unless Teachers Write the Tests, They Won't Improve Anything
December 28, 2012
John B. Judis
Obama's Tax Hikes Won't Be Nearly Big Enough
July 9, 2012
Ed Kilgore
How the GOP’s New Education Policy Embraces the Market and Abandons Objective Standards
June 22, 2012
Nora Caplan-Bricker
How Title IX Became Our Best Tool Against Sexual Harassment
November 11, 2011
Mark Schmitt
Let’s Get Real, No One’s Eliminating Any Cabinet Departments
August 10, 2011
Simon van Zuylen-Wood
Why Obama’s New Plan to Reform Education Is Likely Illegal
August 10, 2011
Jonathan Chait
"Mass Resistance" To Education Reform
April 21, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Paradox Of Local Control
April 15, 2011
Matthew McKnight
False Choice
February 22, 2011
Eliza Gray
New Arizona Bill Would Require Schools to Report Undocumented Students to Law Enforcement

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