Education

Getting into college is tough, but getting into one of the most selective universities on Earth? Not even a perfect GPA guarantees you an admissions letter.

By Lena Thaywick

Some tests check if you did your homework. The hardest test in the world checks if you can rewrite the rules. These exams are brutal, long, and designed to filter only the most prepared minds.

By Lena Thaywick

Liberal colleges often stand out for their focus on diversity, social justice and inclusive education. These schools attract some of the most liberal students in the country and offer academic environments shaped by progressive values.

By Lena Thaywick

The states with the best public schools don't just have bragging rights. A strong public school system can shape a child's future and even boost property values.

By Lena Thaywick

Education levels vary widely across the U.S., and some states consistently fall behind in both school quality and degree attainment.

By Lena Thaywick

What do Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. have in common? All of them graduated from HBCUs, or historically Black colleges and universities. These institutions play a major role in U.S. higher education, especially for Black Americans.

By Lena Thaywick

Some college majors demand late nights, complex equations and lab reports that never end. Others? Not so much.

By Lena Thaywick

Some college majors are years of all-nighters in disguise. The hardest college majors often demand a cocktail of grit, gray matter, and an unshakable love for complexity. Whether you're wrangling multivariable calculus or spending entire weekends on lab reports, these fields are not for the faint of heart.

By Lena Thaywick

Ivy League universities might conjure images of ivy-covered walls, tweed jackets, and old-money prestige. But there's more to these schools than tradition and architecture.

By Lena Thaywick

We're not talking about clickbait here. The youngest teacher in America is a real young woman named Shania Muhammad, and she became the youngest full-time teacher in the United States in 2024.

By Lena Thaywick

Some kids go from finger painting to finals faster than most people can say "graduation."

By Lena Thaywick

There are multiple ways to determine the most educated states in the U.S.: Is it the state with the highest percentage of high school diploma holders? The best public schools? The one with the most people who hold graduate degrees? Do you weigh all forms of graduate school education equally when curricula vary so much between MBA, MFA and PhD programs?

By Karina Ryan

To grasp objective vs. subjective thinking, it's crucial to understand what makes each type of reasoning unique. Subjective information is based on personal opinions or feelings regarding a particular subject matter. In contrast, objective information is factual, data-based and unbiased.

By Mack Hayden

We use subordinating conjunctions all the time, often without even knowing what they are. But how exactly do they work?

By Sascha Bos

Hyperbole is an ancient Greek word that roughly translates to "go beyond." The many hyperbole examples you find in everyday speech align with this idea of going further than the truth to drive a point home.

By Mitch Ryan

Like other forms of figurative language, personification can make your writing more dynamic. By giving human qualities to inanimate objects, you can uniquely describe situations that will resonate with your reader.

By Yara Simón

Remembering the parts of speech can be tricky. It may have been a while since you took a grammar class, so you might appreciate a helpful tool for remembering coordinating conjunctions. These helpful little words can be brought to mind using the FANBOYS acronym, which stands for: For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.

By Zach Taras

We use subordinating conjunctions all the time, often without even knowing what they are. But how exactly do they work?

By Sascha Bos

In the United States, there's Harvard University. In the U.K., there's Oxford University. Each is the oldest in its respective country, though neither has been around quite as long as the oldest university in the world.

By Sascha Bos

A pilot program in the Atlanta Public School system is teaching students de-escalation strategies during one of the city's worst crimewaves in decades. Will it work?

By Dave Roos

Here are four alternative venues where the general public can enjoy nature, engage in hands-on science learning and get a behind-the-scenes look at scientific research in action.

By Jill Zarestky

Science education methods are changing as a result of the Next Generation Science Standards, which aim to define a uniform vision for K-12 science education across the U.S.

By Meenakshi Sharma

Critical race theory (CRT) is a hot button issue in the United States. School boards and state legislatures in seven states have passed regulations banning it from being taught in the classroom. How did we get here and why is everyone freaking out?

By Carrie Whitney, Ph.D.

How long can seeds last underground and still be capable of germinating? One botanist set out to discover this 142 years ago, and his experiment is still running.

By Jesslyn Shields

The world's most beloved chalk was pulled back from the brink of extinction, to the relief of the world's mathematicians and chalk enthusiasts.

By Jesslyn Shields