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At the South by Southwest education conference in Austin, Texas recently, on a panel entitled “What’s Next for Access and…

Beth Akers of the Brookings Institution, co-author of controversial research on the status of student loans, downplays the significance of…

On a panel promoting pre-Kindergarten programs at a conference recently in Austin, Texas, a pair of government officials–one local, one…

This SXSWedu session’s description sums up the matter: “What if job performance was measured by a year-end test aiming to…

For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin,…

When it becomes successful in their own backyards, even die-hard liberals support school choice. “I support [means-tested, not universal] vouchers,…

Before professors everywhere seize upon the Baltimore riots as a “teachable moment,” we’d like to offer a few simple pieces…

Today, at the Heritage Foundation, 14 people from various walks of M. Stanton Evans’ life gathered to honor him. To…

Our dear friend M. Stanton Evans has passed away. He was a great mentor, friend, and conservative figure, not to mention a…

At least one economist gets off campus frequently enough to see what the real economy looks like and, naturally, he’s…

Nostalgia is overrated, a Harvard psychologist says. “The bad-dominates-good phenomenon is multiplied by a second source of bias, sometimes called…

Charter school growth has exploded over the last two decades and so have the waiting lists to get in them….