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

It's "cruel" to admit students to colleges where they're likely to fail, says UC professor.

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

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.

Test-blind college admissions has failed at the University of California. The Regents should restore SAT/ACT scores.

San Francisco is replacing a controversial ethnic studies curriculum with a middle-of-the-road curriculum. Will teachers teach it?

Black and Hispanic students are less likely to be admitted to elite colleges, more likely to attend flagship state universities.

Asian-American achievers don't just study for tests. They participate in sports, art, music and dance.

Teaching knowledge and vocabulary helps students learn, but education professors prefer "engagement" to learning.

"Socioeconomic" preferences often help low-income blacks, but low-income Asian Americans.

Should New York City schools phase out classes for gifted elementary students?

At a well-respected graduate school of education, a former engineer learned about equity, culture and identity, but very little about how to teach math.

Professors will be asked to relax deadlines, attendance policies and grading standards to help low-income, minority and first-generation students at University of Nebraska Kearney.

Teachers are being encouraged not to report suspected child neglect or abuse -- or chronic absenteeism -- to keep families together.

English teachers still teach classics, but think students relate more to "diverse" young-adult books.

Calling every student a "genius" -- even if they're not learning - - obscures failure for students and their teachers.

Did Zohran Mamdani lie when he wrote he checked the "Black/African American" box on his college applications?

Ethnic studies mandates based on racism, colonialism and Marxism are being rejected, even at the University of California and San Francisco schools.

Stop teaching a can't-do spirit. Young Americans are individuals capable of reason, resilience and growth -- not perpetual oppressors or victims.