Education

Crossroads — a point at which one must make a decision that could have critical and potentially lasting consequences. Like others throughout the country, this is where many on Hamilton’s…

According to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the United States has made little progress in the last twenty years in bridging the racial disparities…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines health disparities as preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health. Resulting from multiple factors, including…

In August, political science professor Ashley Moraguez started the fall semester at the University of North Carolina Asheville with “grand plans” for bolstering college student voting after a hurricane. As…

Morehouse College student Marchellos Scott, a Black college student living in Atlanta, performed some political calculus this summer when he registered to vote in Georgia’s Fulton County for this year’s…

The Midwest Newsroom and its partners found that homeless students in the Midwest eligible for enrollment, transportation, and academic support in most rural school districts are not getting these services…

Bethany Blonder and her friends lined up at the voter information table in the student union before organizers had even finished setting it up in time for lunch. It’s true…

On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and…

For the past three years, the Center for Court Innovation has run restorative justice programs in five Brooklyn high schools. All five schools are overwhelmingly Black, and all five had some…

During Prison Banned Books Week, it is important to acknowledge that books have long served as a bridge to the outside world for incarcerated people. They allow people cut off…

Relying on wealthy, largely white donors for funding can lead nonprofits that run after-school programs for low-income children of color to feel pressured to skew their priorities. In part because…

Students and teachers are heading back to the classroom. In addition to math, science, and language arts, many will also focus on the criminal legal system and mass incarceration. Unfortunately…