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A longtime correspondent writes My oldest, 16, mentioned the other day that he's thinking about going to community college before...

I suspect all our American readers know this passage from Robert Frost’s poem, “The Road Not Taken:” “Two roads diverged...

A good friend from grad school came to visit this weekend. He is the chair of his department, and has...

On November 9, 1965, my doctor appointment in mid town Manhattan lasted longer than I expected and I needed to...

Last week, Ben's band had their first paying gig in Manhattan. It was a pretty big deal -- an attractive...

I have been focused, some might say obsessed, with concern about the future of higher education, if not since I...

Several alert readers pointed me this week to the launch of the New College of the Humanities in England. Although...

Walking Wolfie in to preschool, hand-in-hand. He asks me to go with him down the hall to the classroom. Then...