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U.S. colleges and universities bear significant responsibility for plunging public trust in higher education, a Yale University committee suggested in a new report.

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A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities. By Alan Blinder American colleges and universities bear ...

Sampling the outpouring of responses to a guest essay, “Older Americans Are Hoarding the Nation’s Potential,” by Samuel Moyn.

Let rigorous science generate evidence for what works and what does not, and then incorporate those findings in a policy to ...

In an era where large language models of artificial intelligence are widely used and studies show a dumbing down of society whereby thinking frequently now gets offloaded to AI, it has never been more ...