How Higher Education Is Evolving Its Thinking Around Controversial Campus Speakers
A public policy non-profit has put together some guidelines to help universities prepare for future free speech controversies.
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Think Barbie's Waistline is Absurd? Check out Elsa or Mulan.
New research suggests that cartoon princesses hurt young female viewers by offering them unobtainable ideals of physical perfection.
Is There a Good Way to Fact-Check Public Figures in Real Time?
A recent goof by the Associated Press indicates that real-time fact-checking still doesn't exactly know what it's doing.
Los Angeles Teachers Are Striking—and Expecting That Teachers Across the Country Will Follow Suit
Organizers say the L.A. movement to better fund public education will inspire solidarity movements nationwide.
How Humans Evolved to Love Horror Movies
New research suggests evolution predisposes us to seek out horror films.
School Bullying Increased After the 2016 Election in Areas That Supported Trump
New research backs up anecdotal reports that the election of a bully inspired adolescent imitators.
Senior Citizens Are Most Likely to Share Fake News on Facebook
New research finds the 65-and-over demographic was most inclined to share fabricated news reports during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Fake News Spreads Because We Yearn to Conform
A new book explains why social networks are excellent conduits for falsehoods.
Chuck Grassley's Crusade to Tax University Endowments
What should higher education expect from the new Senate Finance Committee chair?
As a Six-Year-Old, Leona Tate Helped Desegregate Schools. Now She Wants Others to Learn That History.
Tate plans to open an educational center in the New Orleans school she attended as one of only three black students in 1960.
Nuclear Scientists Continue to Search for Undiscovered Isotopes
Nuclear researchers suspect that there are nearly 4,000 undiscovered nuclei that may help lead us to new machines and practices that benefit human life.
Our Best Education Stories of 2018
Our best reporting on education inequality—and those working to remedy it.
The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die
In his new book, John Warner argues that we can't fix how we teach writing unless we also fix a toxic mode of high school assessment.
Dangerous Restraint-and-Seclusion Policies Put Disabled Students at Severe Risk
These policies continue to traumatize and endanger children and teens.
'Diversity' Is Meaningless as Long as White Supremacy Thrives on Campuses
After decades of diversity initiatives and tokenization, Native students deserve advisers who look like them—and a curriculum that treats them as equals.
A Legislative Battle Looms Over Arizona's Repressive LGBT Education Laws
It is one of seven states with laws that prohibit the promotion of homosexuality and that expressly forbid teachers of health and sexuality education from discussing LGBT issues in a positive light—if at all.
The Role of Big Data in Science's Reproducibility Crisis
The reproducibility crisis is driven, in part, by invalid statistical analyses that are from data-driven hypotheses.
A Rural Oklahoma Charter School's Focus on the Workforce Is Dividing Its Community
A savvy businessman outmaneuvered community opponents to bring a charter school to a struggling small town. Now he wants to expand to others like it.
The Benefits of Letting Students Sleep In
A later start time of the school day is linked to better grades.
Free Speech, Unless You're Advocating for Palestine
CNN's firing of Marc Lamont Hill highlights the ongoing silencing of pro-Palestinian voices in American life.
Why Trump Chose a Political Ally as His Next Attorney General
Throughout American history, when presidents have appointed political cronies to be attorney general, they were looking for people only to help them pursue a policy agenda.
Late-Night Tweeting Degrades Next-Day Performance
A new study of NBA players documents the cost of sleep deprivation.
Denver Public Libraries Are Helping Immigrants Become Citizens
A unique program in the Mile High City seeks to integrate the city's growing immigrant and refugee population into its 75 neighborhoods—and the country as a whole.
Small-Town Principals Have Some of the Most Complex Jobs, and Highest Turnover Rates, in Education
Rural school leaders have some of the most complex roles in education—and some of the highest levels of attrition.