Frederick Hess

Harvard University faculty committee tackles grade inflation problem that Harvey Mansfield highlighted decades ago, following Princeton University's failed grading restrictions.

If you want to see media bias, look at how press covered this crazy Biden handout that would cost $400 billion. Journalists couldn’t even cover that fairly.

A new survey of college students and recent grads finds that more than 60 percent of college students say they lied on their applications.

Rick Singer was recently sent to prison for helping rich parents buy admission for their kids to elite colleges.

President Biden's student loan handout showers dollars on people with graduate degrees, sticks taxpayers with a staggering tab, and subsidizes overpriced colleges.

Public support for school choice is impressive and broad-based. The reason for all this isn’t hard to fathom.

Between the war raging in Ukraine and the inflation raging at home, one might think the Biden administration would have had its hands full during the past month.

In a closely watched recall election, San Francisco voters decisively ousted three school board members who had spent the pandemic engaging in woke theater while the city’s schools remained shuttered.

The Supreme Court recently announced it will be taking up two cases, charging Harvard University and the University of North Carolina with illegally using racial preferences to admit students.

When Glenn Youngkin won Virginia’s gubernatorial contest last fall, it was about a lot more than education. But his critiques of endless school closures and critical race theory, along with his blunt support for parental rights, played a big role. He promised to empower parents, promote academic rigor, move past the disruptions of the early pandemic, and address the proliferation of toxic dogmas in schools.

Public schools have historically played a reliable, vital role in American communities. That’s why, for many decades, Americans say they like and trust teachers and more than three-quarters give their own kids’ schools an "A" or a "B."