The lesson of the Spanish flu is not that young people inevitably bounce back. It is that institutions endured by waiting. A century ago, that carried limited cost. Today, with a far larger and more ...

Across the country, many districts are considering school closures, but closures rarely save much money. They can also lead to short-term declines in test scores and diminished college completion and ...

As students in New Haven, Connecticut, are detained and fears of deportation intensify, local schools are fighting back.

New Hampshire — where most voucher money has gone to Christian schools — may be a harbinger for ‘universal school choice.’ ...

When storms and fires disrupt caregiving for months, this volunteer-run network deploys to support parents navigating work, ...

The higher education industry has launched several new marketing campaigns in the hope of reclaiming the message about itself in the face of political attacks and public skepticism.

Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how we work, communicate and create. For education, the fundamental question is what learning should look like in a world in which AI is everywhere. Over ...

The aims of New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani’s child care plan for 2-year-olds aims can be met — but only if he learns from what works to lift toddlers and considers where good intentions have gone ...

Spring semester at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, where I serve as president, began with the sound of helicopters on January 20 — one year after the second Trump inauguration, two weeks after the ...

A narrator speaks over images of busy cityscapes, children playing in a field and ominous scenes of natural disasters and civil unrest. This story also appeared in Washington Monthly “There’s no ...