Conversations With College Students on a Politically Divided Campus
At Central Michigan University, a group of college students from across the political spectrum meets every week to talk through their differences.
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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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Lisa Rathke / AP Middlebury Reckons With a Protest Gone Wrong
Professors and students—many of whom emphatically disagree with Charles Murray—are concerned about attacks on his right to speak on their campus.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters HBCU Success and Networking Excess: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
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Eric Gorski / Chalkbeat How President Trump's Federal Budget Would Hinder Poor Students
For one, he will reportedly slash dollars from AmeriCorps.
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Jackie Mader / Hechinger Report How Teacher Training Hinders Special-Needs Students
Strong progress has been made to integrate students with disabilities into general-education classrooms. Educator instruction hasn’t kept up.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Betsy DeVos's Misunderstood Alma Mater
Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school.
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Jim Young / Reuters The Nonwhite Student Behind the White Picket Fence
Racial diversity is rising in America’s suburban public schools, and many institutions are struggling to provide necessary resources.
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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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Richard Termine / Sesame Workshop 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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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.
