ChatGPT can diagnose a failing elevator component, but it cannot climb on top of a cab thirty stories above the lobby and figure out why the machine no longer matches the schematic. A few overlooked trades are quietly turning that…
By Don Lair
· 12:41pm ET Harvard has long been regarded as one of America’s best schools. And for many decades, some of its top graduates have been international students. In fact, foreign individuals have accounted for roughly…
Jenn Boozer The 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump, is famously known for attending the University of Pennsylvania. Having started his college career at Fordham University, the president left Fordham…
David Beren Employer demand for formal degrees is declining particularly quickly for jobs exposed to artificial intelligence, according to PwC's 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer.
Douglas A. McIntyre Student loan forgiveness is in the news again, this time due to the Trump administration resuming income-driven repayment, or IDR. They are also once again processing Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Buyback applications. The…
What makes an education system good? The first thing to understand is that public education is not isolated in a vacuum in any country. Education is a puzzle piece that contributes to the overall…
Back in the frontier days, a lot of American kids went to school in a one-room schoolhouse that doubled as a church on Sundays. The main textbook, and likely the only book most people…
The most recent victim of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s gutting of public departments and social programs is the Department of Education. And since most Americans have no idea what each branch of the…
When it comes down to it, no one knows how many books have been published. Since the first Gutenberg Bible rolled off the presses, an estimated 130 million unique books were published by 2010.…
When choosing a college with your children, the biggest hope has always been to send them to an Ivy League institution. With names like Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Yale, and Princeton, you have every hope…
Trust in America’s public education system has fallen precipitously in recent years. Gallup polling data shows that only 29% of adults have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in public schools,…
The Constitution enshrines a wide range of rights that many Americans may take for granted. Universal access to childhood education, however, is not among them. In the absence of federal safeguards, nearly every state…
