School shooters crave media attention. Anti-bullying and counseling programs may improve schools, but they don't prevent violence.

Bad behavior can signal an "unmet need" for an adult to teach self-control.

Schools have more freedom to discipline students, but how should they use it?

Has the AP exam been "dumbed down" -- or are scores now a better match with college expectations?

California may require math tests and tutoring, starting in kindergarten, to ensure students learn fundamentals.

When third-graders must pass a reading test to be promoted, at-risk students improve more.

Do Alpha students really learn 2.6 times faster in two hours a day? We need independent validation?

Humanoid teaching bots can't create the connections students need, says the teachers' union.

Read the whole book.

Public schools cost $1 trillion a year with high-poverty, non-white districts and schools getting more. But achievement is "uneven."

New York City's selective high schools are engines of upward mobility for immigrants -- and others willing to do the work.

Failure rates are up for new students at New York's state universities and community colleges. Fewer students start with the basics -- or study skills.

Careers are built on a solid academic foundation. "Passenger" students don't have that.

Young people value earn-and-learn opportunities, such as "apprenticeship degrees" in teaching, health care and other occupations.

Confidence in higher education's value is falling.

Georgetown, Duke, NYU and 13 other colleges cost more than $100,000 a year, including tuition, room and board. It's not true that "nobody pays the sticker price."

5% of college programs don't raise earnings -- at all -- and won't be eligible for federal loans. Some would-be art, music and theater students could have to pay their own way or do without a degree.

Can AI install a sink? Worried about college loans and competing with AI, more Gen Zers are going to trade school.

Minimally guided "discovery learning" privileges the privileged student who know what they're looking for.

"Cognitive surrender" -- let the chatbot do the work -- is getting worse.