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Serena Williams on Why Every Child Deserves to Love Reading
Serena Williams | Photos courtesy of Serena Williams Serena Williams, a 23-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion and change-making children’s […]
February 24, 2026
Understanding complex ambiguous problems through the lens of Soft Systems Methodology
by Joy Garfield and Amrik Singh As the future leaders of a society that is increasingly complex and challenging higher […]
February 24, 2026
Baptists have helped shape debate about religious freedom for over 400 years – up to today’s 10 Commandments laws
Louisiana can proceed with a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, according to a federal court decision […]
February 24, 2026
The key contribution of effective financial support in student retention
Author: Peter Gray Published: 24 February 2026 This blog was kindly authored by Peter Gray, Chairman and CEO, JS Group. […]
February 24, 2026
How I unlearned the anger I grew up with
A friend was dancing around the room, excited, loud, unapologetically herself. I was stressed, suffocating in my own head, and […]
February 24, 2026
What Students Gain When Teachers — Not AI — Grade Students’ Work
This article is part of the collection: Teaching Tech: Navigating Learning and AI in the Industrial Revolution. During our research […]
February 24, 2026
Special education has become a flash point in negotiations with teachers
Top Takeaways Special education is now a central issue in negotiations with teachers across the state, including San Diego, San […]
February 24, 2026
Special education has become a flash point in negotiations with teachers
Top Takeaways Special education is now a central issue in negotiations with teachers across the state, including San Diego, San […]
February 24, 2026
Building Bridges, Not Just Programs
For decades, higher education’s relationship with workforce development has been characterized by a kind of polite distance. Universities offered degrees. […]
February 24, 2026
Higher Education in the Epstein Files Exposes Soullessness
The Epstein files reveal a dark underbelly of humanity in the most vile, unconscionable, evil ways. The people involved lack […]
February 24, 2026
The Fiction of the Amoral University (opinion)
In the fall of 1997, the political scientist John J. Mearsheimer delivered the annual “Aims of Education” address to the […]
February 24, 2026
Student finance: student loans aren’t broken – they protect inherited advantage
This blog was kindly authored by Hannah Rolley, Head of Access at Trinity College Oxford. We are told, endlessly, that […]
February 24, 2026
With reading scores slipping, Massachusetts is changing course. Some teachers aren’t happy
WAKEFIELD, Mass. — One winter morning at the Woodville School in this town about 15 miles north of Boston, teacher […]
February 24, 2026
Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus
Just 2 percent of all college students say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views. […]
February 24, 2026
Four years on, research excellence in wartime is not a luxury – it is infrastructure
When war breaks out, the instinct is to protect what is immediately visible: people, buildings, energy grids, borders. Research rarely […]
February 24, 2026
California is missing an opportunity by not integrating community schools and teacher residencies
California has made enormous investments in two programs that genuinely improve various aspects of life in the highest-needs public schools: […]
February 24, 2026
What the first National Disabled Staff Survey tells us
Disabled staff in UK universities are delivering a clear and urgent message: inclusion is still too often an aspiration rather […]
February 24, 2026
The Office of the Independent Adjudicator is reviewing its Scheme rules, and it wants you involved
There is a familiar tension in any public service. Do you keep improving step by step, or occasionally pause, look […]
February 24, 2026
NY attorney general threatens to remove school board members over trans comments
Jacob Roth is a third-year law student at Villanova University and a FIRE legal intern. Last May, New York Attorney […]
February 24, 2026
FIRE statement on the University of Texas System Board of Regents adopting guidelines for ‘controversial’ topics in class
On Feb. 19, the University of Texas System’s Board of Regents approved new rules governing how faculty members can and cannot […]
February 24, 2026