Alia Wong
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Kevin Fleming / Corbis / VCG / Getty College-Admissions Hysteria Is Not the Norm
A focus on highly selective schools obscures the experience of the vast majority of American undergraduates.
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Mark Lennihan / AP 4 Myths Fueling the Fight Over NYC’s Exclusive High Schools
Year after year, Stuyvesant High has abysmal enrollment rates for black and Latino students. But the debate over admissions reform is brimming with misunderstandings.
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Steven Senne / AP Why the College-Admissions Scandal Is So Absurd
For the parents charged in a new FBI investigation, crime was a cheaper and simpler way to get their kids into elite schools than the typical advantages wealthy applicants receive.
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Rebecca Blackwell / AP The Consequences of Teen Motherhood Can Last for Generations
Declining rates of adolescent pregnancy come with a catch.
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Kristina Barker The Schools That Tried—But Failed—to Make Native Americans Obsolete
“Education was something that was done to us, not something that was provided for us.”
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters When Schools Tell Kids They Can’t Use the Bathroom
By imposing harsh restrictions on when students can use the restroom, educators are teaching kids to ignore their bladder.
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Bettmann / Getty The U.S. Teaching Population Is Getting Bigger, and More Female
Women now make up a larger share of educators than they have in decades.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty The Gun Violence That’s a Bigger Threat to Kids Than School Shootings
Mass killings on school grounds account for a very small percent of victims, but they capture far more public attention than other shootings.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Why Teachers Walk
Educators are emboldened and exasperated. Those feelings are driving a second wave of teacher strikes nationwide.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Cities Aren’t Built for Parents
The death of a young mother who fell in a New York City subway station has drawn scrutiny to the inaccessibility of public-transit systems.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Gym Class Is So Bad, Kids Are Skipping School to Avoid It
Not only does P.E. do little to improve physical fitness, but it can also lead to truancy and other disciplinary problems.
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Scott Heins / Getty L.A.’s Teachers Got What They Wanted—For Their Students
The strike showcased unions' strategy of advocating not just for their members but also for better resources for schools.
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Mike Blake / Reuters America’s Teachers Are Furious
From West Virginia to Los Angeles, educators are ushering in a new era of labor activism.
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP The Unique Racial Dynamics of the L.A. Teachers' Strike
The city’s public-school teachers are predominantly people of color—and a plurality of them are Latino, like most of the students they serve.
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Scott Kleinman / Getty / Shutterstock / The ... Millennials Are Keeping Family Holiday Cards Alive
Finally, something they have not killed
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Stephane de Sakutin / Getty Parents Are Biased Against Even Quality ‘Urban’ Schools
Many of these schools are improving, but the persistent stigma against them contributes to segregation.
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Joshua Lott / Getty The Charter-School Teachers’ Strike in Chicago Was ‘Inevitable’
The move could signal a shift in the long, contentious relationship between teachers’ unions and these privately run schools.
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Melnikov Sergey / Shutterstock / Unicode / Katie ... The Over-celebration of Life Events
Gender reveals, post-wedding receptions, divorce parties, promposals—young Americans now have more and more public festivities for milestones that used to be privately celebrated.
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Ted S. Warren / AP The Students Suing for a Constitutional Right to Education
A new federal complaint with a unique argument accuses the state of Rhode Island of failing to provide students with the skills they need to participate effectively in a democracy.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Graduate School Can Have Terrible Effects on People's Mental Health
Ph.D. candidates suffer from anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation at astonishingly high rates.
