Has your child had trouble at school? Have you tried tutoring, extra homework time, and everything else you can think of, with little improvement? Relax. According to the latest research, your kid's fate is already sealed.

Consternation was the order of the day at New Jersey's Mercer Community College last month, when faculty and staff were confronted with something quite unexpected in an assembly: vagina.

Last year, Timothy Flanagan was hired a president of Illinois State University. In March, following an "incident," Flanagan stepped down after seven months on the job. He got a half million dollars on his way out the door. For what?

Last year, US college enrollment registered a notable decline for the first time in decades. The college boom had peaked. Now, the contraction begins.

Oberlin College is considering the controversial possibility of revising its policy on trigger warnings in order to allow professors to teach "books" and other academic material, rather than just reciting trigger warnings nonstop all semester. Is the world ready?

New York City is so attractive that its population is growing past all-time highs. We're popular. We're cosmopolitan. And we have the most segregated schools in America.

Tyler Cowen, a professor at George Mason University law school and one of the most popular econobloggers in America, was pepper sprayed in class yesterday by someone trying to make a "citizen's arrest."

America's student debt burden has been on the rise for years, along with America's class of incredibly well-educated retail workers. A new report reveals who's driving the train to debt hell: grad students. Don't do it!

Teenagers whining about getting out of bed for school in the morning are actually on to something. High school start times are an outrageous burden. For the grownups, most of all.

Our system of "public education" is at least partially successful at serving its primary purpose, which is to provide free babysitting for children and keep teenagers from prowling the streets during daylight hours. Now, some high-minded reformers threaten to clog up the entire setup by mandating learning.

Despite an industry-wide tuition contraction, colleges had a great financial year last year. They took in more money from donors than ever before. And for the elite few, the boom years are booming big.

Even the most prestigious historically black colleges and universities are facing financial struggles these days. They would love to bolster their ranks by luring in more white students. But how?

University philosophy departments, like the rest of our society, have a reputation for sexism. One university with a bad reputation is turning a harsh eye on itself. The findings are not very encouraging.

Many elite colleges and universities make a real effort to recruit (some) students from low income backgrounds who went to relatively poor high schools. New data shows that's not enough to remedy the damage that bad high schools do.

Take a moment to feel a tidal wave of gratitude wash over you as you reflect upon the fact that modern polling technology and statistical analysis techniques now allow us to pinpoint precisely how much People Don't Respect People Now Like They Did When I Was a Kid.

Robby Burleigh, a 42 year-old Baton Rouge Community College professor of philosophy, biomedical ethics, and logic, is innocent until proven guilty. That said:

Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida, has a student body that is mostly black. The school is named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. On December 16, 2013, the school board finally decided to change the name.

In vast swaths of America, the conversion of the "public" school system into a separate and unequal educational system catering to the poor and powerless is almost complete.

Those of you who were fortunate enough to attend a high school with white, rural, male students will be unsurprised to learn that white, rural, male high school students are wasted. So, so wasted.