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Teaching Languages in Primary School: Is Younger Better?

29 Jan 2019

Here’s an interesting statistic: At the rate of one hour of foreign language instruction per week, it would take 425 years for...

Differential Tuition in Higher Education: What Does It Mean for Schools, Students, and the Public Good?

15 Jan 2019

Much has been written recently about the steadily rising cost of attending colleges and universities in the United States, increases related, in...

Building Relationships with the New Congress

18 Dec 2018

Guest post by Beatrice Gurwitz, Deputy Director, National Humanities Alliance More than ninety new members of Congress are in the process of hiring...

Diversity in Academia: How Far We Haven’t Come

20 Nov 2018

Most leaders at institutions of higher education profess a strong desire and intent to diversify their faculties and to ensure an inclusive...

Speaking Out for the Humanities at the 2019 MLA Benefit

15 Nov 2018

“A man’s pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.” The words of Natasha Trethewey, the former...

Learning to Learn: Teaching the Humanities in K-12 Classrooms

30 Oct 2018

The ongoing discourse among educators, students, parents and business leaders about the value of studying the humanities most often centers on higher...

Digital Literacy in K-12 Classrooms: Learning to Decode before Learning to Code

28 Sep 2018

One might expect the first generation of digital natives, those who grew up immersed in digital technology, to be more media savvy...

Going Public: Humanities beyond the Classroom

25 Sep 2018

What is the public value of the humanities? While perennial debates continue around attempts to answer that question, a public humanities movement...

Can the Seal of Biliteracy Promote Language Education in the United States?

10 Sep 2018

An initiative to recognize second-language proficiency could change the way people across the United States think about language skills. In recent years,...

Volunteering for Book Lovers: A Guide

08 Aug 2018

Calling all readers, writers, and book lovers! If language, literature, and the humanities are important to you, consider volunteering at these nonprofit...

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Harvard University’s Use of Affirmative Action Upheld

Judge says admissions policy helped achieve a level of diversity that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

Gavin Newsom Passes Bill to Compensate College Athletes

College athletes in California will be able to profit from the use of their personal brand through endorsement deals.

Rethinking Vocational Education

09 Sep 2019

It’s no secret: even as college enrollment rates are climbing, the American public is growing increasingly disillusioned with higher education’s rising costs and dubious returns on investment. Yet in an ever more interconnected world, the need to become a globally competitive, highly credentialed worker often eclipses individual desires to pursue alternative paths. One such alternative...

Getting the Most out of Study Abroad

28 Aug 2019

Study abroad is an incredible growth opportunity. Living in a different part of the world allows you not only to discover a new place but also to build cultural understanding, establish new connections, advance profoundly in language and communication ability (especially if that part of the world speaks a language other than English), and acquire...