Let's Stop Pretending That French Is an Important Language

How Taxpayer-Funded Schools Teach Creationism—and Get Away With It

David Brooks Forgot to Do His Research Before Writing About Poverty and Pre-K

What Obama's New Task Force Should Do to Fight College Rape

A Crash Course in California Politics

Would You Send Your Kids to a School Where Students Make the Rules?

Who Takes MOOCs?

This North Carolina Campus Was Meant to Show Off the Future of Online Education

Bored to Death

Stop Giving Multiple-Choice Tests, and Start Letting Robots Grade Students' Essays

The Wild, Unregulated Business of After-School Programs

How the Red Solo Cup Became a Political Football

LinkedIn’s New Network for Teens Is a Wasted Opportunity

Federal Bureaucrats Declare 'Hunger Games' More Complex Than 'The Grapes of Wrath'

Maya Angelou and Judy Blume Are Wrong About Childhood Reading

What Slate Missed: 5 Other Reasons College Women Shouldn’t Get Drunk

College Admissions Requirements in America Are Crazy. Here’s a Solution.

Tests Make Kids Smarter. Let's Give Them More.

I Have Nothing Against Classical Music—But That's Exactly My Point

Parents Absolutely Should Force Their Kids to Take Music Lessons