A Tale of Two Betsy DeVoses
The generous Grand Rapids resident and the tone-deaf Trump official
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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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Orlin Wagner / AP Can a Court Decision Help Close the Achievement Gap?
The Kansas Supreme Court ordered the state to confront the inequality of its public-school funding.
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Ihsaan Haffejee The Violent Fight for Higher Education
In South Africa, student anger over tuition costs and access has bubbled over—and some observers say the tumult is a harbinger of worldwide unrest.
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Toby Talbot / AP The New College Protest
What happened at Middlebury last week marks a shift in campus activism.
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Carlos Jasso / Reuters Why American Universities Need Immigrants
For decades, the United States has welcomed and benefitted from international scholars—but President Trump's travel ban puts that legacy at risk.
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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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Joe Robbins / Getty 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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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.
