Education

New technologies are raising suspicions about students’ work, but the controversy—like so many others swirling around American classrooms—misses the point of what we want our kids to learn.

A leading computer scientist says it’s “educability,” not intelligence, that matters most.

Amid an overheated national argument, David France, the director of “How to Survive a Plague,” replaces perception with reality.

Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” prompted controversy thirteen years ago, but, among the upper middle class, variations on her parenting style have proliferated.

A series of cuts at West Virginia University has largely affected the humanities, but any program that is not seen as marketable may get the axe.

In the nineties, New York began requiring aspiring educators to take an exam. Thousands of people later claimed that the test was racially biased.

A decade ago, blue-collar campus workers won a majority on the city council. Would an alliance with grad students dilute their power?

Alejandra Campoverdi recounts her journey “from welfare to the White House.”

Families are more anxious than ever to find out what happens in school. But there may be value in a measure of not-knowing and not-telling.

The conservative education activist Erika Donalds envisions a world where parents unsatisfied with their public schools can opt out by putting their kids in a headset.

A new book chronicles the affluent suburb’s strides toward desegregation. Are residents’ good intentions good enough?

The U.S. Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona, and the New Yorker contributor Jeannie Suk Gersen on the movement to end legacy admissions—and the larger problem of equity in college acceptance.

After the fall of affirmative action, liberals and conservatives want to eliminate benefits for children of alumni. Could their logic lead to reparations?

Transference and the contemporary classroom.

As a kid, I was told that one day I would lose my sight. Recently, I went to a residential school for the blind, where I learned to live without it.

A small nonprofit launched by the journalist Bari Weiss devolves into tribalism.

In a small Missouri town, a campaign to remove literature from the high-school library forced members of the community to reckon with the meaning of “parents’ rights.”

A common theory of teen unhappiness says that kids these days are under an inordinate amount of pressure to compete. The evidence is all over social media.

The conservative majority may strike down consideration of race in school admissions. What will that mean for colleges? Plus, how the culture wars came to the Catholic Church.

It seems like meritocracy could go the way of free speech, as a bedrock principle that the left allows the right to claim as its own.