Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

From our earliest days, the pursuit of knowledge in this country was never just about learning—it was a civic act.

S ome of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” The Founders, they say, promoted a government role in ...

Another Founder named Benjamin—Benjamin Rush—in 1789 argued for “liberal education” (his words) without instruction in Greek and Latin at all. Note the flexibility of the phrase “liberal ...

Board of Education eliminated the fiction of “separate but equal,” Espinoza re-establishes the founders’ concepts of religious liberty and school choice, which are so central to American ...

Former educators with technology interests are increasingly making their way from classrooms into the startup world as they try to use their school expertise to create ed-tech products.