Education

When it comes to teaching students about climate activism, educators waver between empowering young citizens and courting controversy.

Seph was a participant in our Voices of Change research project on Black women’s classroom experiences. We learned how a non-binary teacher negotiates …

America’s relative lack of investment in child care disproportionately hurts Black educators, children and families. Pre-pandemic, there was limited availability of affordable options; new closures will deepen the challenges.

Students tend to grow up feeling as if learning is a stressful chore while play is a reward.

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but homeschooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the…

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning …

Some 1,600 special education students don’t get to school regularly. At some schools, more than three-fourths miss weeks of class.

As nightstand “To Be Read” piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming…

The pandemic has proved in the starkest of terms the importance of childcare and preschool programs. Working parents have overnight found their childcare upended as capacity and hours shrunk or…

Teachers see the pandemic learning loss that persists, and know that the need for help and funding continues.

In London, youth activists threw soup at Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” asking, “Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?” In Melbourne, Australia, two protesters superglued themselves…

Discussion of climate change typically involves natural phenomena: raging wildfires, record flooding, ruinous drought. Less frequently examined, but equally important, is the effect of our warming planet on a child’s right to education.