5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (775+ words) New York City’s students will return to school this week — sort of: One in three of them will miss at least 10% of the school year. Chronic absenteeism is the most obvious obstacle to student achievement. Even if the city Department…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (710+ words) California has decided that being in the country illegally should not stand in the way of getting help from California taxpayers to pay for college. That should stop you cold. Illegal immigrants are barred from receiving federal student aid. Democrats…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (502+ words) A key US senator wants fellow lawmakers to consider revoking the National Education Association’s congressional charter. What’s to consider? The union, the nation’s largest representing teachers, clearly hasn’t met its obligations under the charter; Congress should revoke it pronto. Sen....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (575+ words) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is proposing to strip schools of their tax-exempt status if they give advantages to minority students based on race, including when it comes to admissions, scholarships and financial aid. More than 18,000 schools across the country could…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (584+ words) A father in Palo Alto, California, is declaring a victory in court after a federal judge allowed a civil rights lawsuit alleging anti-Asian bias in college admissions to move forward. Nan Zhong and his son, Stanley Zhong, filed federal lawsuits…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (198+ words) More than one third of college students condone the use of violence to shut down speakers on campus — and top schools do little to protect free speech, according to a new survey. Around 70% of higher education students agreed that shouting…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (851+ words) Why go to college to expand your views, when you can spend four years in an echo chamber canceling all dissenters? Sociology professor Neil Gross explores why more and more kids are choosing the latter option — and putting our democracy…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (595+ words) Did you know that the SAT is racist? During Woke I, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez now calls it, “antiracists” said the SAT’s creators “were avowed eugenicists.” No wonder black people get lower scores, went the claim. And even if the…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (966+ words) Loan amortization is the process of paying interest and principal on a loan over a fixed time period. Your interest is calculated as a fixed percentage of your remaining balance, so to keep payments even, your initial payments are directed…...

4+ week, 22+ hour ago   (365+ words) Texas public-school teacher Darius Williams is right to weep for his English students: Few things could be more tragic than a roomful of 17- and 18-year-olds left illiterate by the schools they and their parents trusted — or paint an uglier picture…...