Competition is intensifying among institutions and recruiters for a dwindling pool of students.
Education
Education in America, from K–12 to college to the future of work: what works for students and what doesn’t. Home of the Washington Monthly College Guide and Rankings.
Posted inHigher Education
What Life on Most College Campuses is Really Like
A new survey of students at regional public universities by the think tank Third Way offers some surprising insights.
Posted inEconomy
The Stranded Talent Dilemma: A Challenge to Higher Ed, Employers, and Government
Millions of Americans face a job crisis: They’re employed but not moving up and they don’t know what to do. Here’s some of what we need to ease the problem of stalled careers.
Posted inIn Memoriam
A Liberal Without the Elitism: Robert Coles, RIP
I studied with the late Harvard professor who had a nuanced understanding of class and race in America.
Posted inPodcast
Real Men Teach—But We Need More of Them
More male teachers can help close gender gaps in achievement, argues Curtis Valentine.
Posted inHigher Education
Five Big Changes Coming to Higher Education This Summer
If you have federal student loans—or plan to take them out—here’s what you need to know about the biggest changes to financial aid in decades.
Posted inEconomy
How AI Broke the Entry-Level Job
The data say white-collar jobs are booming. The Class of 2026 says the opposite. Both are right.
Posted inHigher Education
Inside the Trump Administration’s Attack on Smith College and Title IX
The Education Department investigates the venerable women’s school for admitting transgender women and granting them access to “women-only” spaces like dorms. A Smith College scholar shows how Trump’s perverse probe fits a conservative Republican pattern.
Posted inHigher Education
America 250: Our Revolutionary Era Colleges Were Hotbeds of … Royalism
“Hamilton” aside, America’s first colleges like Harvard, Yale, and William & Mary bred more faithful subjects of the crown than revolutionaries.
Posted inEconomy
How to Fix Childcare for Families and Workers
Washington is finally demanding that colleges answer for what their graduates earn. In early childhood education, the low wages aren’t the college’s fault—but the pressure may finally land in the right place anyway.
