Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s campus in East Baton Rouge Parish, left, received millions in tax abatements to the detriment of local schools, right. ...
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Children are expensive – not just for parents, but the environment – so how many is too many?
Protecting the planet for future children might mean having fewer children. Halfpoint/iStock via Getty Images Plus Trevor Hedberg, University of ...
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Gen Z and millennials have an unlikely love affair with their local libraries
Libraries can be an oasis from doomscrolling and information overload. Diliff/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Kathi Inman Berens, Portland State ...
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American universities in the spotlight over reaction to Israel-Gaza war
Gemma Ware, The Conversation Tensions have been running high at many universities around the world since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 ...
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Top universities agree to settle financial aid suit for $104.5 million
Five universities agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing them of colluding on financial aid and admissions violations, according to new court filings ...
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Why does Claudine Gay still work at Harvard after being forced to resign as its president? She’s got tenure
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay, left, speaks as former University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill listens during a House hearing in ...
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College applications rose in states that legalized recreational marijuana
Effects of legalization on college application rates are short term. wildpixel via iStock/Getty Images Plus Christopher D. Blake, Emory ...
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The curious joy of being wrong – intellectual humility means being open to new information and willing to change your mind
Sometimes the evidence points you in a new direction. Schon/Moment via Getty Images Daryl Van Tongeren, Hope College Mark Twain apocryphally ...
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