Adam Harris
He is the author of The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal—and How to Set Them Right. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, Adam was a reporter for The Chronicle of Higher Education covering federal higher-education policy and HBCUs. At The Atlantic, he writes about politics and education.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … How the Biden Administration Messed Up FAFSA
An overloaded federal agency and an ambitious agenda derailed an entire class of students.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: … Private Equity Has Its Eyes on the Child-Care Industry
As states and the federal government pour money into early education, how will they keep a public good from becoming a private cash cow?
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David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe / … A New Threat to Diversity at Elite Colleges
All eyes have been on the end of affirmative action, but an emerging bipartisan bill would bar wealthy colleges from accepting federal student loans, with major consequences.
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Stephen Smith / AP The College Board Tries Again
The nonprofit has released an updated curriculum for its AP African American Studies course, correcting many of its earlier missteps.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Redux Trump Wants to Create a National University?
Earlier this month, the former president released a plan for the “American Academy,” and nobody knows what it really means.
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Lenard Smith for The Atlantic How Reconstruction Created American Public Education
Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.
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John C. Clark / For The Washington Post … How the Democrats Won Virginia
The abortion backlash continues to hamper the Republican Party.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … Where Are All the Missing Students?
Schools are struggling with abnormally high rates of absenteeism since the pandemic began.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Lambert / Getty. ‘An Existential Threat to American Higher Education’
Conservative state legislatures and ideologically-driven boards want to dramatically change America’s colleges.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Government Finally Puts a Number on the Discrimination Against Black Colleges
Some of the institutions were underfunded by billions of dollars compared with their white peers.
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Alex Webb / Magnum The Decision That Upends the Equal-Protection Clause
“Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life,” wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent.
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John Biever / Sports Illustrated / Getty San Antonio, the Spurs, and Me
With the first-overall pick in the NBA draft, the team has a shot at becoming one of the league’s perennial winners once again.
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Illustration by Ben Hickey America Isn’t Ready for the School-Funding Crisis Ahead
The education system is headed toward a cliff at a moment when it most needs to help students who fell behind during the pandemic.
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Alexis Joy Hagestad / The Atlantic Montana’s Black Mayor
Wilmot Collins fled a civil war in Liberia with big ideas about what America can be. But can it ever live up to what he imagined?
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Christopher Capozziello / NYT / Redux Why Yale Law School Left the U.S. News & World Report Rankings
Dean Heather Gerken says it’s her belief that “this is not where students should get their information from.”
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Quality Sport Images / Getty The Wizardry of South Korea’s Win
The team’s advancement to the World Cup round of 16 is poised to shape an entire generation of South Korean soccer.
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Tim Nwachukwu / Getty American Soccer Comes of Age
After decades of playing catch-up, the U.S. men’s team finally emerges as a World Cup contender.
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Daniel Steinle / Reuters Mandela Barnes’s Last Punch
The Democratic candidate hasn’t found a way to respond to Senator Ron Johnson’s attacks on crime, and is foundering in the polls as a result.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Justice Jackson’s Crucial Argument About Affirmative Action
The Court’s newest member wanted to know what fairness looks like if you take race out of the equation.
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Tristan Spinski / NYT / Redux; The Atlantic The College-Admissions Merit Myth
The system is not about lining people up from best to worst and taking the top ones. It’s more like a lottery, says the sociologist Natasha Warikoo.
