Dr. Heather Malin, Director of Research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence, poses this provocative question in her 2018 book, Teaching With Purpose. Marlins defines purpose as “a future-directed ...

The pervading and unrelenting tension in American pedagogy for the last one hundred-plus years essentially has come down to one question: what is the purpose of education? This set the stage for an ...

A cademic freedom is being voted on in the midterm elections, but you wouldn’t know it from the gags muzzling the voices of college presidents. Too many leaders have taken a vow of silence when it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Last week, the Jack Miller Center convened a National Summit on Civic Education at Mount Vernon, the Virginia home of George Washington. Robert Pondiscio delivered the keynote address.

Why do Americans need an education in leisure? Rachel Alexander Cambre discusses the foundation of education and how it leads to a true understanding of freedom and flourishing. Rachel Alexander ...

In 1947, an 18-year-old student published an op-ed in his college newspaper titled, “The Purpose of Education.” “We must remember that intelligence is not enough,” wrote the young Martin Luther King, ...