Donald Trump's executive order ending racial preferences will have far-reaching effects.

Can we create a merit-based society that's more than a rat race?

60 Minutes has a very positive story on the University of Austin , which admitted its first class of students this fall. Students are...

Will MEI -- merit, excellence and intelligence -- replace DEI?

Democrats used to be the "party of education" in voters' minds, notes Education Next. Now voters are split on who they trust most, with...

Want equity? Require college applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The progressives' "war...

DEI isn't about diversity, equity or inclusion, writes Bari Weiss on Tablet. It is "an ideological movement bent on recategorizing every...

Rewarding mediocrity is a losing strategy for America, writes Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion 3.0, on Education Next. U.S....

Most Americans -- "ordinary people" rather than academics -- believe in merit, writes Ruy Teixeira on Liberal Patriot. They want to help...

Democrats are losing Asian-American voters, writes Ruy Teixeira on Liberal Patriot. Asians, like Hispanics, are not radicals, he writes....

"Liberal Patriot" Ruy Teixeira advises Democrats to stop fighting culture wars and make peace with middle-ground voters. For example,...

The college admissions race is a waste of time, argues Rick Hess, education policy director of the American Enterprise Institute. Except...

As many New York City middle schools end selective admissions, middle- and upper-middle-class parents are considering private schools or...

Four more Virginia high schools failed to tell students they'd won a National Merit commendation, at least not in time to list the honor...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to turn the very progressive New College of Florida, the state's liberal arts honors college, into a...

Rick Singer was sentenced to 42 months in prison this week for helping wealthy parents bribe and scam their children's way into...

The red wave turned out to be a purple haze. Moderates outperformed extremists. Democracy did not end. Trumpery lost its luster. An...

In A Tale of Two High Schools, Renu Mukherjee, a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute, looks at San Francisco's Lowell High School,...

Urban school districts are losing students, writes Matt Welch, a public school parent in New York City, in Reason. White, middle-class...