A new study questions the place of meritocracy in higher education.

• By James McWilliams

People who don't believe scientists will listen to George Clooney.

• By Tom Jacobs

The latest academic hoax emerges from the same ideological position as the Trump administration's attack on trans rights.

• By David M. Perry

A different type of post-election analysis finds an aesthetic divide in the United Kingdom.

• By Tom Jacobs

Gun advocates are arguing that the controversial law is keeping students safer, but there's little evidence to back those claims.

• By James McWilliams

So are dogmatic and delusion-prone people, according to new research.

• By Tom Jacobs

A small study from the Netherlands finds that a few grams of hallucinogenic truffles can stimulate the imagination.

• By Tom Jacobs

A growing endowment generates wealth. A small part of that wealth is invested to bolster an administration tasked with generating prestige, and, as students rush to take out federal loans, raising tuition and fees.

• By James McWilliams

Nearly all high school graduates in Onalaska, Washington, head off to college—but many come back home after earning a degree.

• By Kaitlin Gillespie

Jamie Sanders is building a career in the theater—while changing how his audiences think about Tourette's.

• By Darryn King

University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer needed money to save his school. Alum and Nike chief executive Phil Knight was happy to help. But after Frohnmayer made a key mistake, Knight exacted a brutal punishment.

• By Joshua Hunt

As Americans' faith in higher education reacts to rising costs, mounting debts, and the growing sense that preparation for the workforce need not take a four-year degree, the post-World War II ambitions of higher education may prove to be a noble failure.

• By James McWilliams

The letters-to-the-editor section of Science, one of the world's top scientific journals, is taking a new stance on what arguments it will accept about those accused of sexual harassment.

• By Francie Diep

Most states are failing to address a fundamental driver of teacher discontent: A teaching re-licensure system that doesn't encourage career growth.

• By Melissa Tooley

A large new study finds people who grew up in book-filled homes have higher reading, math, and technological skills.

• By Tom Jacobs

To relegate academic projects that seek to untangle the complexities of human systems to the realm of grievances is a farce—one that misses the point of the academic project in the first place.

• By Jared Keller

Research suggests that being surrounded by well-off peers in not-too-intense academic environments can lead to lifetime gains.

• By Emma Sarappo

And progress on that front may be slowing.

• By Dwyer Gunn

New research finds alcohol consumption is higher in chapters where members are expected to assert their masculinity.

• By Tom Jacobs

What happens to taxpayer money when scientists are faced with accusations or findings of wrongdoing?

• By Francie Diep

Stephen E. Maizlish's new book discusses a time much like our own, when radicals in Congress hurled insults while moderates bemoaned a lack of civility.

• By Oliver Lee Bateman

Once preschool was made free, maternal labor force participation increased.

• By Dwyer Gunn

Many schools aren't equipped to meet students where they are—and a big part of that problem centers on schools' and students' limited access to high-quality materials.

• By Sabia Prescott, Jenny Muñiz & Kristina Ishmael

Today's homeschool advocates are parents who don't believe that the current school model is best, or enough, for their children.

• By Elena Silva