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'Patriotic' education isn't just flag-waving

Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is 'dangerous, alluring'

University of Florida tops new college rankings

What I learned in traffic school

Is this the last dance? LA's anti-charter board votes to close popular school

Students learn more, fight less after smartphone bans

Kids don't know enough to 'do history' like historians

Best-selling bunk: We want to believe the easy answer

Keeping smart kids down

20% of high school graduates are 'barely literate'

After the patriarchy: The HR lady is in charge now

Teaching inside the bubble: Students hear one side of controversial issues

'Public schools don't belong to the teachers'

Taking ideology out of teacher prep: Is testing teachers the answer?

'Meet students where they are' -- and then what?

Despite the Holocaust, 'competitive victimhood' is a loser for Jews

Book 'bans' sell books

Harvard profs say students don't speak up in class (if they show up at all)

It's not a crisis: Students are saying 'no' to low-value colleges, low-pay majors

Going, going, gone

Knowledge matters: You can't think critically about nothing in particular'

Nervous in New England: Can the North rise again?

Merit pay is making a comeback

Is a 'guide on the side' better than a teacher?

At calm, focused schools, scores are high, but so is suspension rate

Teaching kids the habits of anxious, depressed people isn't working well

Social-emotional learning is now 'character ed' or 'life skills' or ...

Equity or mediocrity? Mamdani would phase out gifted classes in early grades

How many Americans could pass the new citizenship exam?

Is Alpha School the future?

Why special-ed teachers quit: High stress, high risk, low pay

Math teacher was trained on equity, culture, but not how to teach math

Won't read, can't think

'Basic' readers can't make sense of the Tylenol-autism debate

To win back public-school parents, be like Mississippi

Where are they now? Urban public schools see steep fall in enrollment

National parks remove 'negative' signs

U.S. Ed Dept will fund 'unifying, uplifting' civics, history lessons

High schoolers are earning career credentials, but most have no value

College dreams: Should your kid major in psychology? Cannabis studies?

Colleges add football to boost male enrollment, school spirit

Teachers are sold 'snake oil' about brains and learning

Why 45% of 12th-graders are 'below basic' in math

2 + 2 = oppression

Hating the haters: Americans have a right to be nasty

Can teachers be fired for celebrating murder?