I've been trying to figure out how I missed Paul Tough's The Inequality Machine until now. The book is such a lucid, compelling and tightly argued critique of elite higher ed that you'd think it would ...

Graphs, Data, Perspectives’, we look at the World Inequality Report for 2026. Among other things, it shows that the top 10% ...

Young people all throughout the country have expressed concern about education inequality, recognizing that access to quality education is not equal for all students. Education inequality in the ...

For the first time in history, mathematics achievement scores in the United States dropped - from 241 in 2020 to 234 in 2022. As new research rolls in, the stark realities of the effects of COVID-19 ...

If realized, President-elect Joseph R. Biden’s nomination of Connecticut’s education commissioner, Miguel Cardona, as the new U.S. secretary of education will be a historic appointment -- Cardona ...

Just as the Republicans’ default solution to any domestic problem is “lower taxes,” Democrats insist on “more education, especially college education.” But this obsession with education is misplaced, ...

Over his long career as a teacher, principal, and now superintendent of schools in Hamden, Gary Highsmith has seen time and time again little kids starting kindergarten without knowing the difference ...

Inequality is now a visibility problem The concentration of wealth at the very top of the global distribution has moved from ...

One of the biggest impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on parents. In many states, the pandemic resulted in the immediate cancellation of in-person schooling and a pivot to virtual classes, ...

THIS is the age of a great social change. As a hundred and fifty years ago, in our own British fashion, we adapted to our needs and national genius the lessons of the French Revolution without ...