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Natalie Gross The Schools Transforming Immigrant Education
Schools for newcomers are trying to better meet their unique needs, but some worry they’re perpetuating segregation practices of old.
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Matt Rourke / AP When Does the Racial Achievement Gap First Appear?
According to a new study, Latino kindergarteners are about three months behind their white peers in math.
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Rachel La Corte / AP The Benefit of Racial Isolation
The charter schools praised by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are notoriously segregated. In some cases, that’s a benefit.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Dissecting the Youth Vote
Americans under 30 years old leaned left in this election, but not to the extent that they have in the past.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters When Colleges Forget the Calendar and Focus on Mastery Instead
Competency-based education allows students to progress through topics as they master them and could help reach underserved populations.
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Sue Ogrocki / AP The New Bilingualism
The number of dual-language programs in American high schools is on the rise.
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Matt Rourke / AP The 400,000 Latino Children Missing From the Census
“The persistent undercount of the nation’s second largest population group is a civil rights issue.”
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Ted S. Warren / AP Does Coding Count as a Foreign Language?
A Florida bill proposes to let credits from computer-coding classes count like those for Spanish or French courses—but many are skeptical.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Do White College Students Believe Stereotypes About Minorities?
Researchers found that they bought into the trope that Asian Americans are more competent, and blacks and Latinos need to “work harder.”
