This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most reports about Black students’ experiences during the 2020-21 school year focused on challenges their families faced. There were urgent calls for schools to reopen, especially to better serve students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oklahoma recently joined several other states in requiring students to pass the same citizenship test administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in order to graduate from high school. The measure was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With a second disrupted school year in the books and what one hopes will be a more “normal” year ahead, America’s K-12 students stand at a crossroads. More kids have dropped…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since 1960, the world’s population has more than doubled. Average life expectancy increased by 50 percent and income per person tripled. The share of people living in extreme poverty declined from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A state law that limits when children can be expelled from preschool programs has reduced formal expulsions, but emerging data show that programs still find other ways to exclude children…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nigeria’s healthcare service delivery is very poor. It ranks among the worst globally in terms of access and quality. In 2018 it was ranked 142 out of 195 countries by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Yessika Magdaleno, owner of a home-based child care program in Orange County, Calif., is a problem-solver by nature. When she opened her program 20 years ago, she attracted families by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The huge question that weighs on my mind is what our school needs to do to support them through a school year that is possibly even more challenging than the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a state with one of the country’s worst counselor-to-student ratios, Chicago does better than many other Illinois districts, where two or more schools sometimes share a counselor: It staffs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Asked recently by the U.S. Education Department to identify the top issues facing students and schools in the wake of the pandemic, state education officials were remarkably consistent: There’s a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although parents in a suburban Alabama community argued that their desire to secede from their county school district centered on local control, race was undeniably a motivating factor. Gardendale, a Birmingham…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Creating more opportunities for super-bright girls to skip grades might be one of the most viable ways to open cracks in the glass ceiling that has plagued STEM (science, technology,…