Adam Harris

An overloaded federal agency and an ambitious agenda derailed an entire class of students.

As states and the federal government pour money into early education, how will they keep a public good from becoming a private cash cow?

All eyes have been on the end of affirmative action, but an emerging bipartisan bill would bar wealthy colleges from accepting federal student loans, with major consequences.

Earlier this month, the former president released a plan for the “American Academy,” and nobody knows what it really means.

How freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace public schooling for all

Schools are struggling with abnormally high rates of absenteeism since the pandemic began.

Conservative state legislatures and ideologically-driven boards want to dramatically change America’s colleges.

Some of the institutions were underfunded by billions of dollars compared with their white peers.

“Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent.

Wilmot Collins fled a civil war in Liberia with big ideas about what America can be. But can it ever live up to what he imagined?