If you are thinking about enrolling in a pricey Ivy League graduate program, read a recent Wall Street Journal  article titled "'F...

 President Biden has asked Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to prepare a memo on the president's legal authority to cancel up to $50,0...

 As 2020 comes to a close, you may think 2021 will be a better year. And if you are among the nation's wealthiest Americans, things look...

Things are falling apart for many American colleges and universities. The signs of stress and turmoil are everywhere. First, college enro...

I'm old enough to remember when a lot of Americans smoked cigarettes. People smoked on buses and airplanes, they smoked in restaurants...

I never liked the term "Baby Boomer"--an infantilizing appellation if ever there was one. I am a Baby Boomer myself, having been...

As the world changed, we reverted to social divisions that we'd thought were obsolete.  . . . A plain majority of the townspeople were ...

Last July, 7,737 people sat for the California bar exam, and only 3,332 test takers passed--a 43 percent pass rate. A total of 4,405 people-...

In the past,  I have been critical of Sandy Baum's work on the federal student-loan program. In my view, she sometimes drastically under...