Education

The financial crisis of the University of Chicago sheds light on the forces that are "corroding ideals, and wasting money" throughout American higher education.

On the grim legacy of Ronald Reagan.

By reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, Trump is joining his predecessors in setting forth a competition that he would likely fail at.

Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.

With his strange machines and an uncanny, intuitive understanding of muscles, Joseph Pilates created a new technique for improving strength and movement.

A new book examines the long history of racial inequality in higher education through the post-baccalaureate experiences of Jim Crow era African Americans.

Columbia University as security state.

On Richard Hofstadter and the current assault on academia.

A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?

During the Cold War, the government relied on universities for research, but also saw scholars as dangerous.

When it came to antisemitism, women’s colleges were no better than the Ivy League.

On the troubling history of IQ tests and special education.

What the history of the pocket calculator reveals about the future of AI in classrooms.

The classroom staple turns a hundred.

Columbia is at war with its intellectual heritage.

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy.

How the City College of New York went from an experiment in public education to an intellectual hot spot for working class and immigrant students.

C. Wright Mills, Karl Polanyi, and the Frankfurt School in postwar America.

On the schoolhouse’s role in enforcing racial hierarchy.

Public education is meant to be a great equalizer. That’s why Trump wants to do undo it.

For decades, the term “school choice” was widely and rightly dismissed as racist. Now it’s the law in thirty-three states.

Throughout the entire history of left-wing organizing in the United States, the building of institutions of political education has been key.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

He tackled segregation in the nation’s public colleges and fraud in student-aid programs, and established the Department of Education.

At universities, American Marxism has led to good scholarship, but it’s also encouraged hyper-specialization and the use of impenetrable jargon.

Why “Let’s have public schools like the Founding Fathers had” is such a terrible idea.

Belief that schools must teach moral values is older than public schools themselves. But whose morals?

For more than 50 years, we've been worrying about "grade inflation" at elite American universities. It's time to move on.

Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.

Advanced Placement courses are no recipe for igniting the intellect beyond high school. They’re a recipe for extinguishing it.