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Ever since COVID-19 closed U.S. schools for in-person instruction in March 2020, questions about pandemic learning loss have shaped reactions to new data on student learning.…

[SLICING, WHIRRING] If you’ve ever detoxed on celery juice, searched a nutrition label for artificial food dyes or stopped eating seed oils — “Seed oils.” “Seed…

For students and their families, a university education is a massive investment of time and, often, money. To make a wise and informed decision about that…

In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that Trump is turning into…

If I can be a little crude, if we remember the drip, drip, drip of the Lewinsky scandal culminated in the blue dress, right. Yeah and…

The start of the new academic year has all eyes looking ahead. As we all know, prediction is very difficult, particularly about the future, as physicist…

In a nearly daily barrage, President Trump and his MAGA forces heave fireballs at science and higher education. In the last weeks alone, the administration has…

The game goes to he who outlasts the adversary, and what the Chinese want to do is to just keep things really, really stable and just…

Area studies, the interdisciplinary study of region-specific knowledge, is under threat in the United States. Some area studies programs are facing immediate dismantling by red-state legislatures.…

The Trump administration has stepped up government scrutiny of college admission. Settlements reached with Brown and Columbia Universities each included a requirement that they pursue “merit-based”…