Students cheered as they stacked rubbish bins against the entrance to a school outside Paris, while a speaker thumped out ...

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If you work hard, you will be rewarded. For whom is that statement common sense?“If you study hard, you can get into a good ...

There is consensus among social scientists that education is the most critical vehicle for development. Among its by-products are employment, social stability and character formation. However, in ...

I was dismayed to recently encounter this headline in The New York Times: “Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says.” The Times story highlighted a UNESCO report ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Erik Sherman reports on business, economics, finance, tech, and law. “Education pays,” says the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) ...

I've been trying to figure out how I missed Paul Tough's The Inequality Machine until now. The book is such a lucid, compelling and tightly argued critique of elite higher ed that you'd think it would ...

Children in Ireland experienced one of the longest school closures among rich countries during the first wave of the pandemic. School children lost 141 days of face-to-face instruction during the 2019 ...