Alia Wong
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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.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The Larger Concerns Behind the Teachers' Strikes
For educators in Oklahoma and other states, the demands go far beyond better pay.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Donald Trump Doesn't Understand Community Colleges
In a speech on Thursday, he revealed he doesn't appreciate the vital role they play in the country's education system and economy.
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Paul Sancya / AP The Problems at Michigan State Went Far Beyond Larry Nassar
Allegations of sexual harassment against the dean who supervised Nassar reveal why decades of complaints weren't dealt with more aggressively.
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Gerald Herbert / AP The Push for Harsher School Discipline After Parkland
Some policymakers are considering whether to more aggressively punish student misbehavior in their effort to make campuses safer.
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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivers remarks about the ... DeVos Digs Herself Deeper
In her 60 Minutes interview, the education secretary failed to convince policy scholars that she’d improved her understanding of the issues.
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Robert Ray / AP The Ripple Effect of the West Virginia Teachers' Victory
The success of the statewide strike has intensified education unrest nationally—and could have lasting implications for the country’s schools.
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John Raby / AP West Virginia's Teachers Are Not Satisfied
Despite the governor's offer to raise their salaries, the state's educators remain on strike, saying that the real problems remain unaddressed.
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Mark Wallheiser / AP The Parkland Students Aren't Going Away
American teens are shaping a new kind of debate about gun violence—but why now?
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Cory Lum / Honolulu Civil Beat Pandemonium and Rage in Hawaii
A false alert of an impending missile attack highlights just how unprepared the country is for nuclear disaster.
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Jessica Hill / AP Must-Read Education Stories From 2017
A roundup of The Atlantic’s coverage on schools, learning, and everything in between
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Tax-Bill Provision That Would Cost Harvard Millions
The GOP legislation cracks down on college endowments, and higher-education leaders are not happy.
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Gustau Nacarino / Reuters Is Catalonia Using Schools as a Political Weapon?
The complicated question of language and nationalism
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Federal Investigation Into ‘Reverse-Discrimination’ at Harvard
The Justice Department appears to be looking into whether the Ivy League institution discriminates against certain applicants based on their race.
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Steve Marcus / Las Vegas Sun / Reuters Returning to Class the Morning After a Massacre
The school district that includes Las Vegas was back in session Monday, a decision that some criticized as insensitive but experts said was critical to help children heal.
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Benjamin Lowy / Getty The Most Polarizing Education Reformer in New York City
In a new memoir, Eva Moskowitz recounts how her revered—and notorious—Success Academy charter-school network came to be.
