Education Archive
Archives for February 2023


The most important question in US law is which political party controls the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court case that shaped US schools, the long shadow of Covid learning loss, the after-school care crisis, and the latest classroom culture war. Plus: What is homework for, anyway?


How a landmark Supreme Court decision was shaped by the racist idea that poor children can’t learn.

Social-emotional learning has been a basic — and uncontroversial — part of education for decades. So why are conservatives waging a war against it?

The hours between school dismissal and the end of the workday are a mess. They don’t have to be.

The pandemic took young people’s present. What will it do to their future?


The University of Pennsylvania’s Amy Wax problem, explained.


The law is very explicit that Biden’s student debt relief program is lawful. The Court’s Republican majority is unlikely to care.


The College Board is facing backlash from conservatives who want it to do less — and from left-leaning critics who say it isn’t doing enough.