Human Rights

Accountability is crucial in education. As educational leaders, we must ensure students meet high learning standards. However, our single-minded focus on standardized testing is extinguishing the joy of learning for…

When one of our sons (then a third grader) lost access to recess privileges for a week last school year, he came home cranky and irritable. As he put it,…

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent encampment executive order mandating the clearing of homeless encampments on state property, coupled with the start of the school year and a new Supreme Court decision,…

I had my first suicidal ideations at age 8 due to bullying in school. I forced those feelings aside, but I still wanted to kill myself until I was 14…

The end of the 2023-24 academic year came to a dramatic close for the scores of colleges challenged by widespread anti-war student protests over the Israel-Hamas war. But one institution,…

School is a place where everyone should feel that they belong. However, for students with disabilities, this has not always been the case—the education system has a long history of…

Whenever you’re dealing with kids as an adult, it’s important to remember they are years away from being fully developed physically, mentally, or emotionally. Even during moments where children misbehave,…

Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky famously stated that “nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” Biochemical processes, aspects of anatomy and physiology, ecological relationships, and more can be…

Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some…

When 80 middle school students from Billy L. Lauffer Middle School, a Title I school in southeast Tucson, hopped off the bus at the University of Arizona, it was not…

The start of the school year can be stressful, but parents of neurodivergent children are more likely to report back-to-school stress, feeling overwhelmed, unprepared and scared than other parents, according…

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.…