Education
Analysis and reporting on America’s schools, from kindergarten to college.
Liberty University’s classes are remote, but its students are coming back to dorms. It could be a public health disaster in the making.
“I rely on this institution for my therapy, for medical treatment, and my whole support system is on campus.”
A long-running program in Kalamazoo shows that students need more than tuition to make it through to graduation.
Not all AI being used by schools is facial recognition. That doesn’t mean the tech doesn’t come with privacy risks.
Can Warren wipe away student debt for 42 million Americans without approval from Congress?
$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.
The decision is a blow to ethnic studies departments everywhere.
Trump administration policies could encourage such bigotry, according to advocates.
Some fear the rules, soon to be finalized, will essentially destroy the process of campus Title IX hearings.
As colleges grapple with the legacy of slavery, it’s the third school in two months to announce a reparations fund.
A former Department of Education official advocated the measure following Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos denouncing debt forgiveness proposals.
The incident has reignited a debate about police presence in schools.
Students say the university needs to do a lot more to address a deeper culture of racism on campus.
Warren’s plan stands firmly on the side of public school teachers.
They’re about much more than pay raises.
The College of New Jersey is fighting sexual assault with an approach called restorative justice. The focus is not punishment, but healing.
He’s an adviser to President Trump — but he also wants to see a national $15 minimum wage and an overhaul of the H-1B visa program.
Democratic candidates scrambled to talk about raising teachers salaries during the debate.
Virginia Theological Seminary used enslaved labor. Now it is spending $1.7 million on reparations.
Revelations about the sex offender’s connections to the MIT Media Lab are a reminder of the power of enablers.
A new study finds that an increase in “splinter” school districts are leaving poor and nonwhite students behind.
Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.
DC offers free pre-K for toddlers. The ripple effects helped K-12 students too.
Who exactly would benefit if we canceled all this debt?
On the latest Recode Decode, John Fallon explains why the education company is pivoting to digital textbooks.
“If history is any guide, the people that are leading the race today are not going to be the nominee.”
The former vice president once called busing “an asinine policy.”
When these Chicagoans walked off the job in 2012, they changed the future of organizing.
Bernie Sanders and Julián Castro have one, Kamala Harris doesn’t really.
On the latest Recode Decode, MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito says we need to resist the urge to oversimplify the problems we’re solving.
I talked to Kashuv about getting his Harvard admission rescinded over using racial slurs.
“We need a fundamental reworking of how education works.”
“Access isn’t the same as acceptance,” says Harvard professor Anthony Abraham Jack.
If we don’t trust scientists to be experts in their fields, Hockfield says on the latest episode of Recode Decode, “we have no way of making it into the future.”
A New York teacher’s mock “slave auction” is part of a larger problem.
Biden’s education plan suggests he’s breaking with Obama’s legacy.
Raj Chetty has an idea for introducing students to econ that could cause a seismic shift in the field.
At a time when black colleges are struggling and HBCU students are being hit by the debt crisis, Robert F. Smith’s donation is a big deal.
His plan to establish a ban on for-profit schools, explained.
“Black girls are not getting the benefits of being viewed as innocent.”