Steven Pinker: Can Harvard Be Saved?
The Harvard psychologist discusses recent gains for free speech at Harvard, growing political and ideological threats to academic freedom, and the importance of shared knowledge in sustaining truth and progress.
College Admissions
Education Department Clarifies Anti-DEI Guidance
The department insists its directive will not suppress First Amendment rights.
John McWhorter: Is 'Wokeness' Finally Dead?
New York Times columnist and linguist John McWhorter discusses the rise and fall of "woke," DEI and affirmative action, and his new book on the history of pronouns.
Education Department Orders Schools To Stop All Racial Discrimination
The letter mostly builds on existing civil rights law.
Test-Optional Admissions Hurt Poor Kids
A new working paper from Dartmouth College researchers provides more evidence that ditching the SAT hurts disadvantaged college applicants.
ACT Scores Are Down. Grades Are Up. Something's Fishy.
Grade inflation is making test-optional college admissions unworkable.
Getting Testy
Plus: Joe Biden pushes through new background checks for gun purchases, O.J. Simpson dies, NA beer takes D.C., and more...
Quiz: What Do You Know About the SAT?
Colleges have turned away from standardized testing in admissions. Are the tests really that bad?
FAFSA Glitch Imperils Financial Aid for 200,000 Students
A rushed attempt to simplify the financial aid form has led to persistent technical difficulties, frustrating families and colleges alike.
Pano Kanelos: 'Ideology Is the Death of Ideas'
The president of the new University of Austin wants to reverse the decline of higher education in America.
UT Austin Brings Back the SAT After Scoreless Kids Underperform
The college is the latest in a spate of schools reinstating SAT and ACT test requirements.
Could Elite Colleges Embrace the SAT Again?
There's increasing evidence that standardized tests accurately measure student achievement and are helpful, not hurtful, to disadvantaged applicants.
Coleman Hughes: The End of Race Politics?
The author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America says colorblindness should remain our North Star during a live conversation with Nick Gillespie.
The End of Race Politics
A Q&A with Coleman Hughes, author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.
U.S. Universities Will Be Able To Sponsor Refugees
Admitting students to America as refugees provides resettlement in America, overcoming the need for an F-1 visa and the challenge of travel documents.
How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court
Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
New College of Florida Embraces Affirmative Action for Men
In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.
Killing the SAT To Help Underprivileged Students Actually Benefits Rich Kids
It's time to retire the idea that getting rid of standardized tests increases equality.
Affirmative Action Is Racist and Therefore Wrong
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
Is This the End of the Ivy League Nepo Baby?
A new complaint argues that legacy admissions violate the Civil Rights Act.
Did the Supreme Court Roll Back Gay Rights and Civil Rights?
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of the Court's recent rulings on affirmative action and same-sex wedding services.
Three Cheers for the Supreme Court
Plus: A listener question on the potential efficacy of congressional term limits.
The Case for Abolishing Legacy Preferences in College Admissions
They probably aren't illegal under current law. But they are nonetheless wrong for many of the same reasons as racial preferences.
Thoughts on the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Harvard and UNC Racial Preferences Cases
A preliminary assessment of today's decisions. The majority rightly struck a blow against the use of racial preferences for purposes of advancing "diversity" in education. But there are some flaws in its reasoning.
Of Course Legacy Admissions Should Follow Affirmative Action to the Grave
There is no reason for public universities to grant preferential treatment to the scions of their alumni.
Flexible Homeschooling Enters the Mainstream
To its credit, the world seems ready to embrace the pioneers of a homeschooled future.
How a Gorsuch LGBT Ruling May Doom Affirmative Action in College Admissions
The link between Bostock v. Clayton County and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina
The Originalist Debate About Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court grapples with the original meaning of the 14th Amendment in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.
The Supreme Court Could End Affirmative Action
In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act
Does Anyone Have Standing to Bring a Lawsuit Against Biden's Student Loan Debt Cancellation Policy?
The likely answer is "yes." There are three types of potential litigants who probably qualify.
COVID-19 Gutted College Attendance. Now, a Solid Labor Market Is Convincing More High School Grads To Skip It.
The number of high school seniors going on to attend college has plummeted in the past two years, deepening the already steady decline.
American Council of Education Claims Ending Racial Preferences in College Admissions Would Chill Speech
Do First Amendment claims about racial preferences hold water?
MIT Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirements for Admissions
Doing away with standardized testing doesn't help low-income applicants gain entry to elite colleges.
Lawsuit From Former Students Alleges Financial Aid Price Fixing at Elite Universities
Federal subsidies for higher education lead to market distortions that affect financially needy students.
Getting Rid of the SAT Won't Diversify Higher Ed. Expanding School Choice Will.
Giving kids more educational options would help produce the long-term change activists want.
Affirmative Action in College Admissions Will Be on California's Ballot in November
A November ballot initiative would pit minority communities against each other.
Federal Prosecutors Are Punishing Actor Lori Loughlin for Exercising Her Right To Defend Herself
Plea deals aren’t about mercy these days. They’re about intimidating defendants into giving up the right to a trial.
Harvard Discriminates Against Asian-Americans, and 'Implicit' Bias Training Won't Fix That
Race-based admissions will likely make a return visit to the Supreme Court.
Democrats Love To Promise Free College, So Why Did the U.K. Recently Start Charging Tuition?
When Britain reversed its free college program and asked its citizens to foot a portion of their college bill, more working class people got degrees.
Harvard University Cancels Kyle Kashuv
A social media mob successfully persuades Harvard to rescind the admission of a conservative Parkland survivor.
Felicity Huffman, 13 Others Plead Guilty in College Admissions Scandal
"I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college."
Universities Play the Victim in Admissions Scandal, but They're Far From Blameless
Higher education is a moral mess.
Time to Put the College Admissions System on a Rocket and Shoot It Into the Sun
Cheating scandal should have taxpayers asking whether it's right to subsidize the campus party lifestyles of celebrity scions who fake water polo careers.
