If you were a college student, what would you be doing at 6:30 a.m. on a cold Saturday morning after a night of responsible rowdiness? Exactly. Driving to New Hampshire to spend the day going door-to-door for Barack Obama in 15-degree weather.

About 15 students and I trekked from...

It can't be a good thing when a state fires its head of science education for promoting science education. But that's what happened when the Texas Education Agency put its science curriculum director Chris Comer on administrative leave in late October, leading to what she calls a forced resignation.

These are exciting times for America's students. After years of neglecting the college (un)affordability crisis, Congress is making the issue a priority.

The House Education and Labor Committee unanimously backed a five-year reauthorization of the Higher Education Act Thursday when it approved the College Opportunity and Affordability Act (

Congress took a step in the right direction towards making college more affordable for low- and middle-income students last month when it passed legislation boosting financial aid and reducing debt burden. But despite this effort, the federal system of student financial aid remains largely broken. Students are often...

As Bush prods Congress to reauthorize No Child Left Behind he has rightfully taken a tremendous amount of heat for his seemingly well-intentioned but poorly-executed education law. As NCLB has given the federal government a larger role in education than it has ever had before, stakeholders including state and...

On the front of today's Yale Daily News was an article announcing the formation of a group of students supporting Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid. As a member of Yale for Obama, I was a bit pissed at first about what I saw as unfair publicity. Then I remembered...

At work in the Yale Admissions Office today, I spoke with a prospective student about some of my favorite parts of college life. "Every week it seems there's another prominent figure or great mind speaking on campus," I said, recalling one week last year when I had a chance to...

I can't believe you, Arianna Huffington. How dare you con me into blogging for your crazy militaristic propaganda-producing website?

Wait, what? The Huffington Post isn't a crazy militaristic propaganda-producing website? Well, you could've fooled Mark Steyn, everyone's favorite right-wing Canadian columnist. In a recent post over at The National...

Today MySpace and MTV announced the details of the presidential candidate forums they will hold this fall. Hosted on college campuses across the country, broadcast on MTV and streamed live on MySpace, the forums seek to foster "candid, unfiltered" discussions between young voters and the major Republican...

I like to approach the blogosphere the way I do a dinner party. I start off by sampling the daily offerings from lighter sites like Deadspin and Gawker as if they were hors d'oeuvres. Once I've whet my appetite with bits of sports news and yuppie gossip, I...

Helicopter parents and overanxious high schoolers around the country are rushing to pick up U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges" issue, which hit newsstands today. This is great news for the magazine's publishers, who reap ridiculous profits from the admissions frenzy they help fuel every year....

Students like me have been crying for years that they don't have a voice in politics. I tried changing that this summer by blogging at Campus Progress, but most of my readers were other students who, like me, had been crying for years that they don't have a...