Drop Your Passport and Open Your Mind
Though Brown University boasts about its diversity statistics, it can be difficult to find students with vastly different political views on Brown’s campus. Brown is overwhelmingly liberal, with a mer...
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Class Action
In 2024, The Boston Globe launched an unprecedented investigation into Massachusetts public schools, uncovering haunting stories of special-needs students’ parents attempting to navigate the education...
Boys Don’t Read: Male Reading Habits and the Educational Gender Gap
In 1976, a mere 50 years ago, men earned the majority of undergraduate degrees, the majority of master’s degrees, and over 75 percent of all doctoral degrees across the United States. By 1990, these n...
Prompt and Circumstance
Emily Dickinson has lost her most beloved friend. Penned in alternating lengths, angles, and fervor, the em-dash was once a cure-all for the emphatic writer. It offered a moment of respite, prompting...
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Lowering the Bar
In early 2026, both Florida’s and Texas’s Supreme Courts opted to drop their requirement that the states’ lawyers graduate from American Bar Association (ABA)–accredited law schools. This opened the d...
Playing With the Past
Earlier this year, hundreds of families flocked to a newly opened playground and park in Waltham, Massachusetts. Children soared on the swings, flew down the slides, and competed in mini-golf – unawar...
The Creatively-Destructive Path to the Nobel: An Interview with Peter Howitt
Brown University Professor Emeritus Peter Howitt, co-architect of the theory of sustained economic growth through creative destruction and co-recipient of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, di...
A New Type of Math: Exploring Changes in California’s Math Curriculum with Yifan Guo
In this interview, Yifan Guo, a second-year graduate student studying and teaching mathematics at Brown University, shares her thoughts on California’s push to make their math curriculum more “equitab...
Beyond ESSER: How the Federal Government Must Continue to Support Equitable K-12 Education
After a few years of COVID funding, schools face a fiscal cliff that will further exacerbate educational inequities.
From JD to EdD
Teachers-turned-politicians offer a promising antidote to lawyerly domination in the Democratic Party
How Parent’s Rights Fails Homeschooled Children
The prioritization of parent’s rights over children’s rights have left homeschooled children vulnerable to neglect and abuse.
The Student Sentinels
US campuses have played an actively complicit role in the CCP’s efforts to threaten international Chinese students into political silence.
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Political Responsibility and Divestment
Parallels exist between the university’s complicity in the transatlantic slave trade, as revealed in the Slavery and Justice Report, and its current financial ties to companies profiting from the Isra...
Students Are Posting Tweets Instead of Raising Hands
Social media’s growing popularity among teenagers has had an undeniable impact on their classroom engagement.
America: Guns or Books?
Schools and legislatures must enact more gun safety measures to keep students safe from gun violence.
Four Years Later: Has RIDE Been Successful with the Providence Schools Takeover?
For the past four years, the Providence Public School District has been controlled by the state in response to the dire conditions of the district. Has it worked?
Moneyball: The Uneasy Marriage of Sports and Higher Education
America’s college sports are a source of national pride and entertainment, but we should not forsake our higher education system on their behalf.
