Schools turn to little-known consultants, owned by private equity firms, to find applicants and calculate scholarships. Here’s how that affects the price you pay. By Ron Lieber Ron Lieber’s experience ...

Most are at least somewhat confident they know how to check a news story’s accuracy, but they’re less sure others can do this well.

Good manners never go out of style, but they do occasionally need to be refreshed. In workplaces everywhere, that refresher couldn’t come sooner. In the decade since the previous edition of “Emily ...

Empathy matters, and not just among friends and family. A Catalyst study found that when employees who feel their leaders are empathetic, they feel more engaged, more included, and less likely to ...

Ben Sheehan explores why many Americans know so little about government and how to change that. In this episode of Civics Made Easy, Ben Sheehan explores America’s civic knowledge gap and why so many ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Leading in the AI Era,” available in the Chronicle Store. E arlier this year Ohio State University announced an AI Fluency program, ...