Young people want career and college preparation. But it's hard to do well.

I don't need "underwater basket weaving" to teach English, says 42-year-old completing a three-year bachelor's degree.

Arizona State hopes would-be influencers will enroll for a bachelor's degree in "content creation."

States will have billions to spend on youth activities or mentors or . . . Will the Meta money do any good?

"Read books that have no interest in your identity" and "wrestle with facts that don't care how they make you feel," says University of Austin president Carlos Carvalho.

If teachers assign challenging "whole" books, will students do the reading?

"Huckleberry Finn" is disappearing from high school reading lists: It's too difficult to teach.

Helping students early -- before they fall off the academic cliff -- can be effective. The longer schools wait, the worse the outcomes.

Today's college students are more likely to say they're isolated and lonely.

Overdecorated classrooms make it hard for students to focus.

Is a Western Civilization class "a Trojan horse for classical Christian education?"

The right and the left have found common cause teaming up against Big Tech.

Teach teachers how to teach writing.

"There are better things to do with your time in college" than clean, cook or do laundry, says Dorm Mom.

Competing for a shrinking numbers of 18-year-olds, hundreds of not-very-selective universities are admitting students who haven't applied, reports Bloomberg's Amanda Albright. Private colleges' "direct admissions" offers come with financial aid. But it still may be a dubious deal. Wingate University in North Carolina Wingate University near Charlotte, North Carolina offered $24,000 in financial aid to 20,000 students who used the Common App, Niche and a state-run system calle

Does Alpha School's "2-hour learning" model work for regular students?

DEI drove Tyler Austin Harper out of academia: He realized he'd been hired to be "visibly black first and a scholar second." Or not at all.

The "whole child" needs to be able to read, write and calculate to achieve "wellness." Dental care isn't the top job.

The answer to mediocre teaching of world languages isn't no teaching at all.

Vietnamese "boat people" raised their American children to work hard in school and go to college.