Adam Harris
The Death of an Adjunct
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
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rosarioscalia/ Shutterstock Frederick M. Brown / Stringer / ... The Democrats Aren’t Talking About Education Issues They Can Change
Candidates were given little time at the third presidential debate to discuss their proposals to transform college.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Fine Line Campus Tour Guides Walk—Backwards
Guides are expected to serve as the face of the university and as an authentic voice for prospective students. Can they truly be both?
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Mark Thiessen / AP Alaska Still Hasn’t Saved Its Universities
The governor agreed to halve his proposed budget cuts. But the school system still stands to lose $70 million.
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Karl Tapales / Getty The Whiter, Richer School District Right Next Door
Public schools’ dependence on local property taxes means some districts get isolated from the financial resources in their communities.
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Scott Olson / Getty Bennet Steals the Moment From Harris and Biden on School Segregation
But it will take more than just talk to fix America’s schools.
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David Mercer / AP An Underhanded, If Legal, Scheme to Get Financial Aid
When families try to game higher education, the neediest students suffer the most.
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LM Otero / AP When ICE Raids Homes
For years, immigration agents targeted people at businesses, but in recent years, knocking on the doors of houses and apartments has become more common.
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Amy Harris / Invision / AP Pete Buttigieg Is Ready to Talk About Racial Inequality
The candidate has struggled to attract black voters, but now he has a robust plan to signal his commitment to helping them.
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Tom Merton / Getty Many College Students Are Too Poor to Eat
But no one can agree on just how many. Now lawmakers are introducing a bill to change that.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Leah Millis / Reuters / ... The 10 Presidential Candidates Who Support Busing
Many 2020 Democrats agree that school segregation is a significant problem, but not all of them want the federal government to step in.
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Becky Bohrer / AP Higher Education Has Become a Partisan Issue
And university budgets are suffering as a result.
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Office of Inspector General / DHS / Handout ... An Astonishing Government Report on Conditions at the Border
Federal investigators detailed dangerous overcrowding and long detention times at Border Patrol facilities in Texas.
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Tom Fowlks / Getty Are Small Private Colleges Worth the Money?
Paying for college is becoming more difficult. So is justifying the full-freight cost of some private institutions.
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John Vachon / Library of Congress The Education Deserts of Rural America
The college-completion gap between rural and urban residents is widening.
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Saul Loeb / Getty / The Atlantic The Confrontation That Laid Bare the Democratic Party’s Evolution
And the country’s
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Sets Bernie Sanders’s Student-Debt Plan Apart
The senator, alongside Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, announced legislation to cancel all student-loan debt and make college debt-free.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Everyone Wants to Talk About Reparations. But for How Long?
The issue makes the occasional blip in the national conversation. Yet in communities that have been fighting inequality for generations, it is more like the steady thumping of a drum.
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Seth Wenig / AP Jesse Jackson on Reparations: ‘We Are Due a Different Kind of Recognition’
Thirty years ago, the reverend made reparations for slavery core to his presidential campaigns. Now he’s watching as the House grapples with a proposal to study their feasibility.
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Michael Conroy / AP Harvard’s Drastic Decision
The college has rescinded an admissions offer to Kyle Kashuv, a Parkland survivor and conservative activist.
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Nicholas Kamm / AFP / Getty Parents Gone Wild: High Drama Inside D.C.’s Most Elite Private School
At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.
