Karthik Chandramouli has always been an active citizen. Growing up in Kentucky as the only son of two Indian immigrant professionals, Chandramouli recalls his...
This article was co-authored by Akshaya Annapragada, Chad Borgman, Katherine Ho, Quinn Mulholland, and Akash Wasil.
In the POLITICO feature “Paul Ryan’s Favorite Charter School,”...
In mid-March, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for 2018. It included deep cuts to federal scientific agencies such as the National Institutes...
Every so often, stories of promising young students who exhibit extraordinary academic talent sweep the Internet; when a Naperville North student became the first...
Unfortunately, even in education systems considered to be high performing, there is no guarantee of access to high-level schooling for everyone. According to the...
Despite the bad rap that the youth get, recent polling by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University reveals that the majority of young people today actually support the idea of a national service program for Americans under the age of 25. The IOP survey of 18-29 year old Americans found that a full 50 percent support voluntary national service, and seven percent support mandatory national service. Only 10 percent of respondents indicated that they would not support national service at all, while 33 percent were either unsure, or did not answer.
After years of working to build infrastructure to prevent campus sexual assault and alter campus cultures, the White House announced in July a further measure: President Obama, Vice President Biden, their wives, and cabinets will no longer visit schools that fail to make adequate progress toward eliminating sexual assault. The Obama administration placed much emphasis on combating campus sexual assault, and this latest policy is another component of that progressive legacy. But whether this legacy continues depends largely on who is elected the next commander-in-chief.
