The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street
How and why the lovable, mistake-prone Grover was selected to teach children about science, technology, and math
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Guillermo del Olmo / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel ... The Failing Grade for Tests
In the final installment of our series, a panel of education experts describes what evaluation and accountability look like in the perfect world.
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Teacher of the Year / Facebook How Pop Culture Misrepresents Educators
The new documentary Teacher of the Year pushes against Hollywood’s hack-or-hero portrayals of the profession.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters In Finland, Kids Learn Computer Science Without Computers
Students can learn the basics with a set of knitting needles.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Former Homeland Security Secretary, Champion of Immigrant Students
Why Janet Napolitano, who once oversaw the deportation of more than 2.5 million undocumented immigrants, is now vowing to fight for them.
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Steve Helber / AP The Federal Government’s Reversal: Let the States Deal With Transgender Kids
The Departments of Education and Justice released revised guidelines on how schools should handle gender-identity issues.
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The Great Croissant-Eating Controversy
Last week, a reader who signed his email “J.” gave us a detailed critique of what he calls the…
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David Goldman / AP The Coded Language of For-Profit Colleges
The industry refuses to acknowledge its success is predicated on inequality.
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Matt Rourke / AP When Does the Racial Achievement Gap First Appear?
According to a new study, Latino kindergarteners are about three months behind their white peers in math.
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AP / LOC / Getty / Shutterstock / ... Using Historical Fiction to Connect Past and Present
The novels offer more than a good story—they can also be integral to critical-thinking skills, especially during periods of political turmoil.
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Maria Danilova / AP What Could Reverse D.C.'s Intense School Segregation?
Not more charter schools
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Bryan Cox / U.S. ICE / Reuters What Immigration Raids Mean for Students
An immigration-law expert chimes in on how the recent detention of Daniel Ramirez Medina could affect students around the country who still benefit from the Obama-era policy.
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Does Grammar Pedantry Perpetuate Ignorance About Language?
That’s the charge leveled by one reader, J., who responds to my grammar confession from earlier this week by advising…
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Jeffrey Phelps / AP The Catholic Schools Saved by Vouchers
Parishes staved off closures by participating in a school-choice program, but that also resulted in fewer donations to the church.
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Bob Child / AP How Donald Trump Changed Yale
According to some observers, the university announced it would update the name of Calhoun College to appease its liberal community members and distance itself from the president.
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Are Teachers Becoming Obsolete?
A veteran educator reflects on the personalized-learning trend that’s left him wondering if a computer is more capable of doing his job than he is.
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Alex Brandon / AP The School-Voucher Paradox
In Louisiana, an initiative reduced segregation in the education system, but the families who took advantage of the program did not experience the newfound integration.
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Steve Helber / AP States Are Investing More in Higher Education
Though some have cut funds, budgets across the country have allocated an average of 3.4 percent more money toward campuses this fiscal year.
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A Grammar Geek’s Confession
Forgive me, dear readers: I have sinned against grammar and in thy sight, and, as I might have expected, you’ve…
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Charles Dharapak / AP The Glue Helping At-Risk Students Stick With School
Washington, D.C., added pathways coordinators to its high schools to try to help kids who are behind on credits catch up.
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Dylan Peers McCoy The School for Refugees
A public school in Indianapolis is more than just open to students new to America—it was made for them.
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Noah Berger / Reuters Deconstructing the 'Liberal Campus' Cliche
Uniformly labeling higher education as a community of hypersensitive, radical leftists is not only a false portrayal, but also undermines intellectualism.
