Alia Wong
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Richard Vogel / AP When ‘Back to School’ Means Back to Mass-Shooting Fears
High-profile massacres have created ambient, worsening anxiety about gun violence on K–12 campuses.
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Dan Whitcomb / Reuters The Financial Calamity That Is the Teaching Profession
Teachers are suing the government over debt relief that never came—but their financial problems go much deeper than student loans.
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Courtesy of Yankton College The College That Became a Prison
Yankton College no longer exists. But it’s not fully dead either.
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Nati Harnik / AP How Schools Reinvigorated the Stonewall Revolution
Since the creation of high-school LGBTQ clubs, their mere existence has made life easier for queer youth.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic The Surreal End of an American College
Small schools across the United States are facing budget shortfalls and low enrollment—leading some to shut down in the middle of students’ higher-education experience.
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Jim Gipe / Pivot Media / Smith College The College That Gives Graduates the Wrong Diploma
Smith College's unusual ceremony is more than just a silly tradition.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Misplaced Fears About the United States’ Declining Fertility Rate
Many women may not be abstaining from having children, but simply delaying it.
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Jae C. Hong / AP What It’s Like to Be Quarantined on a College Campus
A UCLA student talks about measles exposure at his school, his time in isolation from other students, and making a TikTok video to pass the time.
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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.
