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One of the highlights we’ve witnessed so far as we work with our Instructional Leadership Collectives (read more here), is how leaders are breaking down the…

Today’s post is the latest in a series highlighting the impact of ICE crackdowns on schools, teachers, their students, and families.The previous two posts, and this…

University leaders are thinking a lot about AI. Some institutions are purchasing site licenses, others forming task forces and others are drafting policies focused on academic…

Faculty teaching about race do so in a moment when public scrutiny of higher education is heightened, federal policies are shifting, and diversity, equity and inclusion…

“Remember your why.” Arguably, these are the three worst words any administrator or professional development trainer has uttered in the past decade. It is usually preceded…

I have a rule for myself in freshman English that I don’t assign readings that require much explanation. If I continually have to provide background of…

Five years ago, the University of Southern California’s Pedro Noguera and I published In Search of Common Ground. In a time of intense polarization, the two…

Despite the economic realities of the outside world, the campus magazine survives. Or perhaps not, if other colleges and universities begin to interpret federal guidance like…

Yesterday, we unveiled the 2026 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Of course, education research involves a lot of scholars doing very different kinds of work in…

Amherst College, where I teach, recently changed the designation of its senior administrators, who were formerly called “chiefs,” as in chief financial officer, to “vice presidents.”…