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Don’t Be Afraid of Going to Graduate School in the Humanities

Full-time, tenure-track professorships in the humanities are famously scarce. But that's not a reason to avoid an advanced degree. Even if you don't end up in academia, odds are you'll have a job—and you'll love it.

Stephen J. Mexal

Education

Want to Learn How to Think? Read Fiction

New Canadian research finds reading a literary short story increases one’s comfort with ambiguity.

Tom Jacobs

Education

Is California About to Embark on a Gigantic New Experiment in Public Education?

Jerry Brown’s education plan asks, “Why not just give poor schools more state money—and authority over how to spend it?” His idea mirrors some of the most promising new theories of global development.

David Dayen

Education

I Failed a Mensa Test, Twice

An inside look at a failed attempt to become a member of a select group of people who did well on a test.

Noah Davis

Education

Why MOOCs Are Bad for Science Education

Instead of overturning traditional education models, when it comes to science, MOOCs just reinforce them.

Michael White

Education

In Rankings Race, Colleges Giving Low-Income Students Less Aid Than Better Off Ones

A new study from The New America Foundation makes it clear why so many schools have fought efforts for greater transparency when it comes to financial aid.

Elvina Nawaguna

Education

Academic Publishing Flirts With the You(Test)Tube Age

A look at the Journal of Visualized Experiments, the first journal devoted to publishing scientific research in a video format.

Michael Todd

Education

Why Do We Still Have Summer Vacation?

Forget the argument about a calendar built around an agrarian economy. It was urbanization that created summer as we know it—and now we can't imagine doing anything else.

Daniel Luzer

Education

The Kids Really Are All Right

The facts say children have never been safer. So why can’t we loosen the leash? Taking stock of parental anxiety on the 30th anniversary of National Missing Children’s Day.

David Villano

Education

Fatal Talent Attraction

Top-tier research universities matter more than a vibrant urban core as focus shifts from talent attraction (too much competition) to talent production.

Jim Russell