A Small Act of Thievery in Vermont
…at such microcosms to understand the bigger picture. All those donkeys charging the hornets’ nest may well learn some painful lessons. Image: “Mead Chapel (1916) – at twilight” by Don…
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AI Will Make Knowledge Cheap. Higher Ed Will Survive Anyway.
…printing press was invented because demand for its services is artificially inflated by both credential inflation, which tends to require postsecondary education for jobs that don’t truly need it, and…
Financially Illiterate Students, Meet Robinhood
…don’t mention identity politics or weave in DEI themes, which already makes it less ideologically loaded than many K–12 programs. But that doesn’t mean it’s an ideal solution. Outsourcing financial…
A Student’s Short Take: The Bill Is Coming Due—and My Generation Can’t Pay It
…students don’t realize that every dollar borrowed today will eventually land on their shoulders—through higher taxes or reduced benefits. Just as pressing is the future of Social Security, the program…
A Plan to Restore Civics in Virginia
…and civics instruction is being done right. It matters more that K-6 instruction is done right than 7-12 instruction. It also matters more that K-2 instruction is done right than…
Harvard’s Got an Ethics Problem
…every comment with disclaimers like, “I might be off base,” or “I don’t want to offend,” as if curiosity itself were a transgression. They are not cynical—they are frightened. They…
Letter to the Editor: Boys, Girls, and the Costs of Overprotection
…exercises in misery. We used to look forward to seeing the country from the backseat. Now, the message is: sit still, stay safe, and don’t enjoy the ride. [RELATED: Letter…
Columbia’s ‘Listening Table’ Band-Aid Can’t Heal Institutional Rot
…organizer, admits, “I’m not sure I can really protect people if somebody decides to report them.” Even the facilitators don’t trust the system they’re operating within. Professor Hamid Dabashi, co-founder…
OpenAI Rolls Out Study Mode—Can It Curb AI Cheating as Students Get Smarter at Hiding It?
…their essays “sound dumb” or to deliberately misspell words so they don’t get caught by their professors. [RELATED: AI Can Boost Learning and Retention, Chief Technology Officer Says] Minding the…
Letter to the Editor: Reflections on Maturity and Wisdom
Editor’s Note: This response was submitted in early September 2025 in response to Jared Gould’s Top of Mind column, “If You Want Young Adults to Grow Up, Don’t Bar Them…
AI Can Boost Learning and Retention, Chief Technology Officer Says
…for life.” “We don’t want to create tools [where students] don’t have to interact with the content or [where] they can shortcut to the credential. We really care about learning…
Oklahoma’s New Standards Strengthen Social Studies and Science—Now They Must Be Carried into Classrooms
…a momentary pause. Oklahoma policymakers, in any case, don’t need to be trapped in a false dichotomy between the much inferior 2019 standards and the 2025 standards as finally released….
Joe Nalven on Keeping Art Human in an AI World
…to scan and print my small collages into large posters. They told me, “You are the artist. You have to learn Photoshop.” That was the impetus to learning how to…
2025: An Awesome Odyssey
…Foe?] Don’t get me wrong. I love AI. How could I not? It might love me even more than my dogs do. In fact, I just used it to evaluate…
The SAT’s STEM Bias Points to a Larger Crisis in Reading and Writing
…interpretation of data pertaining to nucleobase concentrations in meteorite and soil samples. Again—I don’t know about you—but I certainly don’t remember learning about nucleobases in English or history classes. These…
Don’t Learn to Code, Learn to Think and Adapt
…can limit individuals’ occupational endeavors and lead to an underestimation of the possibilities available to them. When I studied behavioral science, the science of human decision-making, at the London School…
Texas State Hosts ‘Sex in the Dark’ Panel with Faculty ‘SEXperts’
…offering free pastries. It was described on their Instagram as an opportunity to “learn and respect each other, even when expectations don’t match reality.” They also advertised “Sex Signals,” an…
‘Action Civics’ Breeds Campus Chaos
…“Civic engagement” surely hasn’t increased civic knowledge. All it’s done is produce a generation of oblivious activists. General education requirements in higher education don’t help matters, and they may make…
Harvard’s GPA Bubble Is About to Burst—Faculty Need to Let Out the Hot Air
…the world’s biggest university library, then our students should be reading these books,” she said. “And if the students we’re admitting don’t want to read those books, or if we…
AAUP President Embraces ‘Militant Action,’ Betrays Founding Mission
…in recent years, Wolfson replied: Certainly, I have regrets. Everyone makes mistakes. I don’t know if this is a regret, [but] I think that our sector is not fully ready…
Empathizing with History’s Worst Is Hard. But a Quality Education Was Never Meant to Be Easy
…can you say that??!!” I don’t remember exactly how the conversation played out. I do know it was thoughtful and lively, and the professor assured everyone at the end that…
The Math Standards Ready to Trend on TikTok
…and school districts shouldn’t waste taxpayer money on a product that hinders our children from learning mathematics. @chaldomom #commoncoremath #commoncore #math #teacheroftiktok ♬ Pink Panther – Mr. Blue We don’t…
Academic Rigor Sticks When Students Feel Seen, Known, and Valued—Men Especially
…trends aren’t about capability—they’re about connection. When young men don’t feel seen or valued in educational spaces, they check out not just from assignments but from the entire academic enterprise….
College ‘Discussion’ Boards Are Killing Real Debate—Time to Pull the Plug on Post-and-Reply
…don’t feel like they learn much from discussion boards. They feel like they’re performing. Yet we take these memes, share them with a friend, and move on with our day….
Welcome to College: A Letter for the Journey Ahead
…fail—and you absolutely will fail, repeatedly and sometimes spectacularly—don’t retreat into isolation. Don’t disappear from the communities that matter to you. Don’t let shame and embarrassment win the day. Failure…
Unpacking ROI—and the Myth of the ‘Unemployable’ Major
…Creative, Don’t Go to College,” Alyza Harris examines the return on investment (ROI) of college majors, focusing on creative majors like the fine and performing arts. Using statistics from the…
What to Know Before You Transfer from Community College
…school, even before they earn their associate’s degree. Other Credits That Transfer We don’t just learn in a classroom. Many of us are taught and use essential skills during on-the-job…
Leftists Target Conservative Students at TPUSA Summit with Doxing and Bomb Threats
…not going to assault me just because you don’t like being called what you are,” he later told me, describing leftists protesters as hostile, chaotic, and deeply intolerant of conservative…
Everything I Was Told About Teaching Was BS
…cliché that was always sure to come up in those interminable seminars: the “sage on the stage.” Don’t be one of those dinosaurs, we were warned repeatedly by the consultants….
Letter to the Editor: The Real Threat to Grads Isn’t AI—It’s College
…environment. Students who don’t understand this do not belong in the university in the first place. There is no doubt that AI is replacing conventional coding. In fact, I have…