Education

Samual N. Brown, Allen Burnett, Charlie Praphatananda and Dara Yin have stories to tell about their journeys earning degrees in prison. Their time behind bars was shrouded by their reality.…

My name is Akash Patel. I created the Happy World Foundation. Thanks to technology today, we can connect our students so easily, in a matter of seconds, with people in…

History has the potential to be a captivating subject in elementary classrooms, but too often, it involves rote memorization and lacks relevance. As a result, students are often disengaged. Instead,…

Superintendent Keith Hayashi promised state legislators late last year that he would reform the Department of Education’s approach to school facilities management. DOE had just proposed relinquishing nearly half a…

A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute released this week studied the influence of socioeconomic status (SES) on disparities in reading, mathematics, science and overall academic achievement gaps among…

August 21 marks 50 years since the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was passed into law. Back then, student privacy looked a lot different than it does today:…

As we mark three years since the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, the situation for Afghan women and girls remains dire. The Taliban’s oppressive policies have exacerbated gender apartheid,…

Conservatives are pushing “school choice” as a key issue this election, with several state legislatures developing school voucher programs to divert taxpayer money intended for public K-12 schools to instead subsidize private…

At the height of the Black Lives Matter movement — after George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in 2020 prompted nationwide outrage over police brutality…

Students in schools with anti-LGBTQ+ policies report more negative experiences such as harassment and physical threats, Trevor Project data shows. Nearly a third of LGBTQ+ secondary and postsecondary students ages…

Last year, Gov. Youngkin’s team overhauled 2021 model policies by former Gov. Northam on transgender and nonbinary students’ privacy and rights, setting a precent for inclusion of transgender students in…

A predicted decrease in underrepresented minority student college applications has not materialized after the Supreme Court’s decision overturning race-conscious admissions. There was a substantial rise in underrepresented minority student college…