The Developing Norms for Reopening Schools After Shootings
In an age where such tragedies are increasingly common, a shared blueprint is emerging.
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Corey Brickley The Third Education Revolution
Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy.
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Pirette McKamey / Jitti Warrawutwittaya / Shutterstock / ... How to Make Students Care About Writing
Pirette McKamey, a veteran English teacher, spent 30 years investigating what helps young people to view themselves as writers.
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Scott Bauer / AP The Wisconsin Governor’s Race Might Be Decided by Education
Voters are “sick and tired of people playing political games with kids in schools.”
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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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Linda Kallerus / A24 In Middle School, ‘You’re Trying to Build a Parachute as You’re Falling’
The director Bo Burnham discusses his new movie, Eighth Grade, and how kids cobble together their identities, on the internet and off.
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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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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Emails From Trump Education Official Reveal Ties to For-Profit Colleges
A former for-profit lobbyist turned department staffer scheduled meetings to discuss two regulations overseeing these institutions—rules that are now being rolled back.
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Kevin VQ Dam What Rereading Childhood Books Teaches Adults About Themselves
Whether they delight or disappoint, old books provide touchstones for tracking personal growth.
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Matt York / AP Here’s How Colleges Are Spending Money From the Koch Foundation
As part of a transparency effort following ethical controversies, the organization shared its newest grant agreement with The Atlantic.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and others preached civility at a conference for young Republicans. But the teen attendees connected more with Trump-rally-style raucousness.
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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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JR Cabansag Are Universities Training Socially Minded Programmers?
Four Stanford engineers started a club for students interested in using their skills for social good. But then came job-recruiting season.
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Robert Benson / Getty Images An Enormous Study of the Genes Related to Staying in School
Researchers have found 1,271 gene variants associated with years of formal education. That’s important, but not for the obvious reasons.
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Sarah Blesener Can Richard Carranza Integrate the Most Segregated School System in the Country?
A new chancellor is talking a big game about making New York City’s schools more equal—but that’s the easy part.
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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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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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Seth Wenig / AP Yet Another Way Student Debt Keeps People from Buying Homes
The financial constraints of major student loans make it harder for hundreds of thousands of Americans to buy their first homes. But so does a small technicality—one that the Federal Housing Administration could fix.
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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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Bettmann / Getty The Problem With Generalizing About ‘America’s Schools’
It’s an abstraction that has obscured the true workings of the country’s education system for decades.
