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A Utopian Gets Real About the Limits of Schooling

The Cult of Smart sends “educational equity” to the principal’s office.
Book cover of "Higher Expectations" by Derek Bok.

The Purposes of Higher Education

In Bok’s view, shaping character is paramount
Book cover for "Teaching in the Online Classroom"

A Survival Guide for Distance Teaching

Lessons in “fighting the tide of passivity”

The Finlandization of New Orleans

Learning from the Big Easy’s success story is not so easy

The Better of the Two Big Antiracism Bestsellers

Kendi’s How To Be An Antiracist lacks subtlety, but it beats White Fragility.

Charter Schools and Their Enemies

At 90, Thomas Sowell reminds charter schools how to fight. And why.

The Education of Bernard Bailyn

A youthful, parent-encouraged “addiction” to reading launched a scholarly career

Lessons from the Renaissance

A review of "Virtue Politics" by James Hankins

The Risk of Reducing Principles to Policies

Red State Blues: How the Conservative Revolution Stalled in the States by Matt Grossman Cambridge University...

In Choosing, and Paying for, College, Choice Has Benefits

Reviews of “Choosing College” by Michael B. Horn and Bob Moesta and “Indebted” by Caitlin Zaloom

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