The Inevitable Politicization of Commencement Speakers
Conferring degrees with a sprinkle of ideology—regardless of a school’s intentions
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Marko Djurica / Reuters Words Which by Their Very Utterance Inflict Injury
College students urging the punishment of speech that “wounds” risk silencing the causes they support.
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HBO How Big People Shape Little Kids in Big Little Lies
The HBO miniseries is an honest reflection of parents’ psychological impact on their children.
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Alastair Grant / AP How Poverty Changes the Brain
The early results out of a Boston nonprofit are positive.
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The Visa Uncertainty Holding Back Star Scientists
An Indian Ph.D. graduate is working on potentially lifesaving heart research. Will she be able to stay in the U.S. to complete it?
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Alexander F. Yuan / AP Can Grade-Skipping Close the STEM Gender Gap?
If girls were allowed to accelerate through school, then perhaps their peak career- and family-building years would not overlap.
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Tara Garcia Mathewson Can Love Close the Achievement Gap?
The Boston Basics is a series of evidence-based parenting principles designed for children under the age of 3.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How School Choice Turns Education Into a Commodity
Schools are a public good that extreme market proliferation would eventually destroy.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP Alternative Lunches and Alternative Schools: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
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Reed Saxon / AP Were College Students Better Off Before Social Media?
Ten questions for campus observers about the costs of the world that Silicon Valley built
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters Is the Push for Women in STEM Hurting Female Artists?
There is already a substantial gender gap in the arts, and President Trump’s proposed budget cuts could exacerbate the problem.
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Kevin Rivoli / AP What Is the Future of College Marketing?
The “typical” American college student is changing. Is Big Data equipped to keep up?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters How School Start Times Affect High-School Athletics
Catching more sleep could help student-athletes catch more touchdowns, but some still argue sports schedules are a reason against moving back the first bell.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters How Five Princeton Women Have Navigated Their Post-College Years
In her new book, Caroline Kitchener interviews some of her classmates to see how they started their careers and staked out their independence.
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James A. Finley / AP How Colleges Use Big Data to Target the Students They Want
By tracking prospective pupils’ digital footprints, schools can make calculated decisions about their admissions outreach—for a price.
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Mark Peterson / Getty Colleges' Endless Pursuit of Students
With increasingly sophisticated data, universities are constantly courting prospective attendees.
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Reuters School-Bus Accidents and Resistance-School Inhabitants: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
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David Adame / AP How Discrimination Nearly Stalled a Dual-Language Program in Boston
After years of advocacy, the city’s first Haitian Creole–English school opens in the fall.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The New Champions of School Integration
The Department of Education killed a federal program supporting diversity efforts, but the fight to desegregate the nation’s classroom is far from over.
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Ng Han Guan / AP Can Poetry Revolutionize the Parent-Teacher Conference?
A community-oriented program works to engage adults more meaningfully in the classroom.
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Spencer Selvidge / Reuters The Alt-Right Curriculum
Teachers are facilitating conversations with students about white nationalism.
