Human Rights

In an era when partisan echo chambers have produced polarized public discourse and a politically aligned unwillingness to entertain inconvenient facts, clear investigative journalism is among the highest forms of public…

Soon after she had gone to jail for trying to get her children a better education by falsifying her family’s address, Kelley Williams-Bolar’s teenage daughter Jada confronted her mother with…

When the Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in support of the most significant new online safety rules for children in decades, it delivered a major victory for parents who blame the…

More than three-quarters of Gen Z students agree there’s a stigma associated with going to vocational school and pursuing trade careers over a traditional four-year university, which may influence their…

For lack of a washing machine, a seventh-grader was nearly lost. This student, who lives in temporary housing in the Bronx, missed the first two weeks of class. When his mother…

Prompted by declining enrollment and the impending loss of federal pandemic relief funding, school districts nationwide are wrestling with whether to close schools — and, if so, how many. Seattle…

In the books she read growing up, Nancy Jennings saw a lot of school buses cruising across the pages. She had always wanted to ride in one, but Jennings lived…

Long-term suspensions rose during the first half of last school year, fueling a slight rise in students removed from their classrooms, according to long-delayed data released by the Education Department.…

“Don’t forget to count,” Matthew Hill, a percussion teacher at Newark’s AileyCamp said as he used his bare hands to thump a djembe, a West African drum. Tap, tap, tap,…

Fifty years ago, the landmark Supreme Court decision Milliken v. Bradley made it exceedingly difficult to desegregate schools across district lines through the federal court system. Subsequent court rulings and recent backlash to racial…

During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my…

Columbia psychology faculty member Jon Freeman explains the role he played in a data collection change that could help retain people in STEM who identify as LGBTQ+.