The administration’s assault on international enrollment threatens not just elite institutions like Harvard, but the financial viability of regional colleges, local economies, and the soft-power infrastructure of U.S. foreign policy.
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.
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Diversity Without Racial Preference
Richard Kahlenberg has long championed race-neutral means to achieve liberal ends. His new book meets the moment.
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The Corporate Raid on Campus
Finance industry recruiters are starving critical fields of talent and steering an entire generation into soulless jobs.
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Who Needs College Anymore?
Kathleen deLaski asks that question in a new book that asks how to make higher ed not only more accessible but applicable to Americans’ real lives.
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Education Reforms that Can Strengthen the Nation’s Schools
Here are six and they could enjoy bipartisan support, to boot.
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The Lumina Foundation’s Ambitious but Attainable Goal for American Postsecondary Education
Its aim is that by 2040, 75 percent of adults in the U.S. labor force will have college degrees or other valuable credentials.
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Open a New Front for Racial Justice
The decades-long effort to push elite colleges to be more diverse has failed. Here’s a better strategy: demand more support for the underfunded colleges that already graduate most Black and Hispanic students, and plenty of white students as well.
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Free College for the Working Class
Higher education needs a systemic solution to its problems of access, affordability, and quality. We have a plan.
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Tutorize, Don’t Privatize, Public Schools
This article is from a cover package of essays entitled Ten New Ideas for the Democratic Party to Help the Working Class, and Itself. Find the full series here. The subject of K–12 education barely came up during the 2024 presidential campaign. But it’s likely to be a big issue in Washington soon if, as many observers […]
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Four Ways For-Profit Colleges Could Benefit From Trump
Regulation may ease in some cases, but some accountability measures may remain.
