This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rarely does someone care so much about education that he will postpone his own to make sure younger students don’t fall behind. But as a high school junior, Tanmay Rao…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This fall, the Global Innovation Exchange will welcome its first student cohort, representing the culmination of close to five years of planning, and a first-of-its kind alliance between the University…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Faced with so many students collectively on the hook for millions of dollars in loans from defunct institutions accused of fraud, the Obama administration took up the task of clarifying…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As leaders including Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Microsoft president Brad Smith, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and many others have vowed to fight climate change, students at Tesla STEM High School…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jim Roach never expected to be struggling with student debt in his 50s. When his daughter Lauren got accepted to Northwestern University, the Dallas-based serial entrepreneur and father of six…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A child’s most important steps happen before they set foot in a primary school. By their fifth birthday, their brain will already be 90% developed and the foundations for success at school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Democratic and Republican policymakers have pushed for better consumer information about colleges and universities, but our new report on an effort to provide Virginia high school students with information on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A frequent complaint about US charter schools is that they have an incentive to minimize costs. Districts and states determine schools’ income based on the number of students they serve, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seeing his potential, one mother wonders why her child isn’t held to higher standards at school, despite his learning disability. By the time my younger son is midway through third…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Eight-year-old Jaquan was facing many of the same challenges as countless other kids in low-income urban, rural, and suburban communities across the country: subpar schools, inferior healthcare and nutrition, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Abecedarian Project, initiated in 1972 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, provided educational child care and high-quality preschool from age 0-5 to children from very disadvantaged backgrounds. The child care…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our departed colleague Andrew Coulson spent the last years of his life producing School Inc., a wonderful and informative documentary about the possibilities of private, choice-based schooling. I highly recommend it.…