PA School vs. Med School: What to Consider
Before you decide, weigh the differences in acceptance rates, time, cost, pay and role in providing health care.
Education
Explore innovations in learning, teaching methods, and educational policy. This category curates articles that empower students, teachers, and lifelong learners alike.
Friendship Break Ups Can Be Devastating for Tweens. Here’s How Adults Can Help
View the full episode transcript. Leanne Davis, a researcher at Education Northwest, found out her 10-year-old son had made a sad playlist to cope with his best friend moving away. He’d listen to it at night and cry himself to…
How Law School Applicants Can Boost Odds of a Judicial Clerkship
Take these five steps to position yourself for a coveted judicial clerkship after law school.
Leading Education Reform on the Local Level
By: Mari Barke, President of the Orange County Board of Education and Director of California Local Elected Officials (CLEO) I never planned to run for public office — until I saw firsthand how school choice can change lives. When my…
Tutoring Was Supposed to Save American Kids After the Pandemic. The Results? ‘Sobering’
Rigorous research rarely shows that any teaching approach produces large and consistent benefits for students. But tutoring seemed to be a rare exception. Before the pandemic, almost 100 studies pointed to impressive math or reading gains for students who were…
These Programs Help Poor Students with College. Trump Wants to Pull the Funding
MOREHEAD, Ky. — The summer after ninth grade, Zoey Griffith found herself in an unfamiliar setting: a dorm on the Morehead State University campus. There, she’d spend the months before her sophomore year taking classes in core subjects like math…
How Prepared are ‘COVID Kindergartners’ for School?
Last Wednesday was a big day for the Sussman and Frankel family. It was the first day of school at California Creative Academy, a charter school in Los Angeles where 5-year-old Eli is newly enrolled in kindergarten. “We were super…
Inside the 2026–27 FAFSA® Beta: How Early Testing Is Shaping the Future of Student Aid
By: James Bergeron, Deputy Under Secretary Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon joined more than 1,200 students and families in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to celebrate the earliest beta launch of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA®)…
Good Boys (and Good Girls): 12 Colleges With Dog Mascots
These four-legged celebrities love treats, tricks and the roar of the crowd.
Inaccurate, Impossible: Experts Knock New Trump Plan to Collect College Admissions Data
President Donald Trump wants to collect more admissions data from colleges and universities to make sure they’re complying with a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ended race-conscious affirmative action. And he wants that data now. But data experts and higher…