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Chip Somodevilla / Getty A Tale of Two Betsy DeVoses
The generous Grand Rapids resident and the tone-deaf Trump official
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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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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Betsy DeVos's Misunderstood Alma Mater
Calvin College is no fundamentalist Christian school.
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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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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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Christine Armario / AP The Myth of Immigrants' Educational Attainment
Those who move to the United States tend to have higher socioeconomic standing in their native countries than what they settle for when they arrive.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Trump's Immigration Order Is Affecting Higher Education
Experts worry about the impact on academia and scholarship.
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Patrick Semansky / AP The Simple Reform That Improved Black Students' Earnings
When states began to require more math courses, black high-school graduates began to see bigger paychecks.
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Sam Goresh / Reuters What Happens to Those Handmade Posters From the Women’s Marches
A trio of professors in Boston stumbled across a trove of signs, threw them into a rented van, and created an “accidental archive.”
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U.S. Department of Education / Flickr 9 Questions With the Man Who Oversaw Higher Education Under Obama
Ted Mitchell has some advice for Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Education Department.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters What Makes Betsy DeVos Such an Unusual Nominee for Education Secretary
For one thing, she’s never attended or taught at a public school.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP What Betsy DeVos Did (and Didn't) Reveal About Her Education Priorities
The Michigan billionaire’s confirmation hearing was heavy on partisanship and light on substance.
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Susan Walsh / AP The DeVos Hearings: A Crib Sheet
Prepare to hear “school choice” a lot. Here’s what it actually means.
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Mead Gruver / AP Dozens of For-Profit Colleges Could Soon Close
A new study offers a look at what happens when schools shutter.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Taking Stock of Educational Progress Under Obama
Secretary John King’s exit memo offers a first look at what the administration thinks it has—and hasn’t—achieved.
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Mary Altaffer / AP The Free-College Dream Didn't End With Trump's Election
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled a plan to make the state’s public colleges and universities free for families earning less than $125,000.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters 5 Numbers That Explain Education in 2016
From record-high graduation rates to the percentage of students who attend charters, here are some figures that help tell the story of U.S. schools over the last year.
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wavebreakmedia / Skylines / Porfang / Shutterstock / ... Where the 'Bad Kids' Go to School
A 2016 documentary magnifies an often ignored part of the education world.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Sixteen in ‘16: Our Favorite Education Stories
Take a stroll down memory lane, a scroll through some #TBTs, or whatever the school kids are calling a throwback these days. Here are our favorite education stories The Atlantic published this year.
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Eric Gay / AP School Discipline in a Post-Obama World
It’s unclear whether the Trump administration will also see the issue as a matter of civil rights.
