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Miguel Sotomayor / Getty To Prevent Loneliness, Start in the Classroom
Young people are among the loneliest of all Americans. Schools that teach kids how to deal with feelings of isolation could help put a dent in the epidemic.
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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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Kirn Vintage Stock / Getty White College Graduates Are Doing Great With Their Parents' Money
Higher education alone can't bridge the wealth gap that separates black Americans from their white peers.
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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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Bettmann / Getty King Wanted More Than Just Desegregation
The civil-rights activist’s vision for education was far grander than integration alone. How disappointed he would be.
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Mark Lennihan / AP The Irony of Specialized High Schools
Partaking in an intensive arts education as a teenager can have the unintended effect of pushing some toward a more traditional university path.
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Eric Gay / AP Why Do the Boy Scouts Want to Include Girls?
The organization’s decision overturns a historic and defining separation, raising questions about their timing and how they differ from the Girl Scouts of the USA.
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Ashley Seil Smith Boys Are Not Defective
Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a greater margin than almost anywhere else in the world: a case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.
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Kristen Norman The Controversy Behind Chicago's Diploma Mandate
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to set students up for success after graduation. But at public schools, even the best ideas often have unintended consequences.
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Matthew Davis / The Atlantic 'America's Deaf Team' Tackles Identity Politics
In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how?
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Bryan Cox / U.S. ICE / Reuters What Immigration Raids Mean for Students
An immigration-law expert chimes in on how the recent detention of Daniel Ramirez Medina could affect students around the country who still benefit from the Obama-era policy.
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Wellesley College Archives Ivy League Men Really Didn’t Want Women on Their Campuses
“Oh, save us from the giggling crowds!” A conversation about the history of coeducation at elite universities.
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AP The Question Some Public Universities Will No Longer Ask
Dozens of higher education institutions in New York state will stop asking applicants whether they have past criminal convictions.
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Alexia Fernández Campbell Can a Private Company Teach Troubled Kids?
At the Richmond Alternative School in Virginia, 97 percent of students are black and 87 percent are poor, and the city just outsourced their education.
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How Can Schools Teach Students Not to Cheat?
Last week, Paul Barnwell worried that academics are crowding out character education in schools. Some readers pointed out how lessons…
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Are Academics Crowding Out Ethics?
Paul Barnwell, who teaches high school English in Kentucky, wrote a story for us last week about students’ broken moral…
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Alexia Fernández Campbell How a House Can Shape a Child’s Future
A new study from Cleveland looks at the correlations between living conditions and kindergarten readiness.
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Alexia Fernández Campbell / The Atlantic The Workforce that Won’t Retire
As college professors get older, institutions are using corporate strategies to get employees to retire.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Giving Students a Second Chance
A new White House initiative asks colleges to look past criminal records, removing an obstacle to higher education.
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Ted S. Warren / AP The Challenge of Educational Inequality
With whites now making up less than half of America’s K-12 students, the country’s success or failure in the 21st century will be decided in the classroom.
