With the current U.S. president calling for the complete dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, one may well ask, why even have public schools? After all, as educationist Kathleen Knight ...

The pace of change in education today is dizzying. Artificial intelligence, once the domain of science fiction, is now part of everyday student life. In a single year, tools like ChatGPT have reshaped ...

That cliche jumped out in The Aspen Times article of June 6, titled “Public officials and outdoor industry professionals meet to further outdoor industry.” Panelists at the outdoor Summit in Denver ...

I second the writer of the letter published Jan. 10 who called the new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee “unfortunate.” That committee is indeed a big step in the wrong direction. Equity isn’t ...

Samford University in Birmingham is struggling with LGBTQ+ students protesting that they are not protected from discrimination. The Baptist, private campus has ethical and legal issues to deal with as ...

There’s a lot of discussion and debate around schools and education. Among them are the pandemic’s impacts on students and teachers; educators leaving the profession in droves; depression and anxiety ...

Source: 'Photo taken by Zoe Weil' In the United States, the current purpose of schooling is expressed in the mission statement at the U.S. Department of Education website: to promote student ...

Every reporter or columnist is almost duty-bound to write a piece at the beginning of another school year. Ours includes some comments, which I acknowledge would get a higher grade if written in ...

The U.S. Department of Education has become a large federal agency that interferes with decisions best made at the state and local levels. The department, created as part of a political deal, has ...