Alia Wong
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Elaine Thompson / AP The Common App Will Stop Asking About Students' Criminal Histories
The change may be the biggest help to low-income students of color, who are disproportionately likely to have been convicted of a crime.
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Jeff Haynes / Reuters Arne Duncan: ‘Everyone Says They Value Education, but Their Actions Don’t Follow’
The former secretary of education talks about the “lies” he thinks undergird the U.S.’s school system, and the unintended consequences that can come with attempts to reform it.
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Glasshouse Images / Getty How History Classes Helped Create a 'Post-Truth' America
The author of Lies My Teacher Told Me discusses how schools’ flawed approach to teaching the country’s past affects its civic health.
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Elise Amendola / AP Lotteries May Be the Fairest Way to Fix Elite-College Admissions
Proposals to institute a random-selection process have reemerged in response to a lawsuit alleging that Harvard penalizes Asian American applicants.
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Aladdin Color Inc / Getty Private Schools Are Becoming More Elite
The decline of Catholic schools is making independent education less accessible to middle- and lower-class students.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Target's Coupon Fix for Cash-Strapped Teachers
The retailer’s new back-to-school discount says a lot about the state of education funding in the United States.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Private-School Persuasion of the Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s latest nominee for the bench, graduated from a Catholic high school. So did four of the current Justices.
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Carlos Osorio / AP Students in Detroit Are Suing the State Because They Weren’t Taught to Read
A federal judge has concluded that the Constitution doesn't require schools to promote students’ literacy.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Should America’s Universities Stop Taking So Many International Students?
Critics say the country’s higher-education institutions should focus on ensuring more Americans get four-year degrees, but college presidents highlight the benefits of global diversity on campus.
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Sol de Zuasnabar Brebbia / Getty Why Women’s Friendships Are So Complicated
Women place a premium on knowing the details of their loved ones’ lives, which can make their relationships as fraught as they are gratifying.
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Zoran Milich / Reuters The Many Possible Meanings of the ‘Masculinity Crisis’
A lot of people contend that American men are in crisis. But which men? And what is the nature of that crisis?
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Sait Serkan Gurbuz / Reuters Charlottesville’s Divides Are America’s Divides
The city still has not healed from the events of last August.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Harvard's Impossible Personality Test
New revelations from a lawsuit against the university capture the difficulty of comparing thousands upon thousands of talented teenagers.
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cristinairanzo / Getty Why Are Rich, White Girls Struggling in Math?
A new study reveals the extent to which children’s geographic surroundings contribute to gender disparities in schools.
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Victor Ruiz Garcia / Reuters The Controversy Over Just How Much History AP World History Should Cover
The College Board recently announced that it will no longer test students on the thousands of years that predated European colonialism.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP DeVos Says There’s One Thing Her School-Safety Commission Won't Be Studying: Guns
The education secretary told senators that the group isn’t tasked with studying the role of firearms in campus violence.
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Ariana Cubillos / AP The Rapid Retraction of a School-Shooting Video Game
… and what it says about gun violence in America today
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Loren Elliott / Reuters The Trump Administration's Approach to School Violence Is More Style Than Substance
Despite several White House events related to campus massacres this week, the president and his team did little to assure Americans that there are serious policy changes under way.
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Linda Raymond / Getty The Baby-Name Trend That Unites America
In the past decade, new parents have fallen for vowels.
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Caleb Jones / AP Madame Pele's Grip on Hawaii
The Big Island’s residents are reacting to Kilauea’s latest eruption with a combination of grief and reverence.
