This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A McKinsey & Co. study on the impact of COVID-19 has told the nation that “the pandemic has set back learning for all students, but especially for students of color.” This,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s the last week of classes for high school theater teacher Stephen Berlanga, who has spent most of the year trying to teach students in classrooms and at home at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Religious Exemption Accountability Project, or REAP, filed a class action lawsuit on March 26, 2021, charging that the U.S. Department of Education was complicit “in the abuses that thousands…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Youth in the California foster care system face more barriers during the transition from high school to college than their non-foster-care peers, according to an Educational Results Partnership and California College…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past year and a half, we experienced a global pandemic and racial injustice that reached a tipping point in our nation. As we rebuild, it’s more critical than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past decade, brick-and-mortar outposts have popped up across the U.S. to offer students who take online college courses a physical space to study and interact. In Denver, there’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It seems like an obvious example of supply and demand. For years, business leaders have lamented a shortage of workers with abilities that are still beyond the reach of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Child labour has increased to 160 million – the first rise in two decades – and that number could swell by millions more because of the effects of the coronavirus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a month ago, the African American Charter Schools Coalition accused the School District of Philadelphia of discriminating against Black-led charter schools by targeting them for closure at a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite a slight increase in the number of engineering degrees achieved by Black/African American and Latinx students over the past two decades, the two groups still lag severely when it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When science teacher Kathryn Spivey told her students at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville, Maryland that they were going to take off and visit planet Mars for a day on a Magic School Bus of their own, they didn’t know what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the moment schools shut down at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that many districts were ill-equipped to support their students from afar. They just weren’t…