Lifetime return on investment for a Stanford English degree is less than $24,000, just under $4 million for a chemical engineering bachelor's.

"Experts" tell teachers that students don't need to memorizes math facts, setting them up for failure.

Most English majors at two state universities in Kansas can't read and understand Dickens' Bleak House.

Passing students who don't show up regularly or do the work is "just crazy," says an "A" students -- and many of her teachers in Chicago.

The first step in improving education is to stop doing stupid things.

Teenagers are deeply addicted to their phones. Schools must lock the phones away all day to enable them to learn.

College students want fulfilling, flexible jobs with no deadlines and plenty of "self-care days."

Fewer high school graduates are enrolling in four-year colleges, and more say they're "working toward a career goal."

Charter advocates are happy the U.S. Supreme Court didn't rule that charters are private schools.

Special-ed rules make it hard to suspend students for fighting, if parents know their rights.

"No excuses" charters were closing achievement gaps, until "equity" crusaders persuaded them to lower academic and behavioral expectations.

Black students are suspended more than whites, but the disparities seem linked to behavior and family poverty rather than racism.

Attacking a school staffer or making a bomb threat will no longer be treated as a minor offense in Montgomery County, Maryland.

DOGE has ordered $773 million in cuts to STEM education research.

If education researchers talk too much about "unforgetting," they won't be able to imagine a future in which their work is funded.

AI can critique students' writing and get them to improve without doing the thinking for them, says the designer of "Level Up."

It's not just smartphones: Classroom laptops are distracting students, say teachers.

"De-laning" -- dropping honors classes at Silicon Valley high schools -- is "an assault on excellence," tweets liberal Democratic congressman in California.

Education isn't on the national agenda: Politicians argue about library books and locker rooms, but not about raising achievement.

Mississippi should be a role model for the nation in how to teach reading, along with Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama, but old stereotypes persist.