
Is Holocaust Education Making Anti-Semitism Worse?
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
Using dead Jews as symbols isn’t helping living ones.
Isolating kids from their peers is unjust.
A child’s ability to succeed in the classroom is powerfully influenced by their home environment. Giving parents the support they need could be key to fixing American education.
Long after graduation, anxiety in waking life often drags dreamers back into the classroom.
How will they interpret the past?
Why boys should start school a year later than girls
Early education is vital. So why aren’t students guaranteed access to it?
Adolescents in the U.S. are chronically sleep-deprived, in part because most schools start too early. This summer, California will become the first state in the nation to require later start times.
Despite the hopelessness after Uvalde, we’re closer to understanding the kind of social movement that might actually affect gun reform.
I wish I could tell the people of Uvalde that they will be the last mourners. But in the decade since the Newtown shooting, we’ve refused to answer the question of what it would take to actually change something.
All parents of young children have been forced to gamble during the pandemic. Many parents of kids with speech disorders don’t like their odds.
The possibility of a more just future is at stake when young people are denied access to knowledge of the past.
Omicron is making a bad shortage even worse.
The Omicron variant has brought a special level of chaos to classrooms, and some teens say their schools aren’t doing enough to protect them.
How one professor changed the culture of mathematics for his students
Students have endured tremendous trauma during the pandemic—and teachers know learning can’t happen without healing.
America’s schoolchildren spent less time in the classroom last year than ever before in modern history. Now teachers are scrambling to fill in the gaps.
Advice for my daughter: Do talk to your professors outside of class. Do notice the way the sky changes color. Don’t get too drunk.
What are we going to do about it?
Kids deserve a real break, especially this year. But they shouldn’t avoid academic reinforcement entirely.