Publicly funded prekindergarten is one of the few issues in our politically divided climate that has garnered bipartisan support. In liberal Rhode Island, Governor Gina Raimondo has pledged “a Pre-K seat for every four-year-old whose parents want i...
In June of 2014, Barack Obama was featured in a YouTube video for the #CloseTheWordGap campaign in which he explained that “during the first three years of life, a child born into a low-income family hears 30 million fewer words than a child born i...
It has been a turbulent four months in Providence after a devastating report diagnosing the epidemic dysfunction and subpar performance that plague the city’s public schools. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, with the support of Rhode...
At the beginning of the 2018 school year, Providence teachers entered work-to-rule status as a bargaining tactic for a new contract. Work-to-rule means that teachers will follow the exact language of their most recent contract, which is two years old...
At the beginning of the 2018 school year, Providence teachers entered work-to-rule status as a bargaining tactic for a new contract. Work-to-rule means that teachers will follow the exact language of their most recent contract, which is two years old...
The history of Indigenous peoples in the United States is replete with genocide, erasure, and forced assimilation. Oppression of Indigenous peoples has been pervasive, especially in the all-important domain of education. Originating with boarding sch...
The history of Indigenous peoples in the United States is replete with genocide, erasure, and forced assimilation. Oppression of Indigenous peoples has been pervasive, especially in the all-important domain of education. Originating with boarding sch...
Poised on the cutting edge of innovation, American universities continuously challenge the frontiers of knowledge in the pursuit of progress for humanity. Just what this lofty endeavor entails, or how it is to be accomplished, varies largely in accor...
Poised on the cutting edge of innovation, American universities continuously challenge the frontiers of knowledge in the pursuit of progress for humanity. Just what this lofty endeavor entails, or how it is to be accomplished, varies largely in accor...
Education represents a path to economic and social opportunity for people across the political spectrum. However, it’s evident that this path is racially skewed. Disparities in graduation rates, test scores, school resources, and disciplinary proba...
Education represents a path to economic and social opportunity for people across the political spectrum. However, it’s evident that this path is racially skewed. Disparities in graduation rates, test scores, school resources, and disciplinary proba...
Protests in Chicago often center around police misconduct or cuts to education funding. Over the past year, a political battle has unfolded over a project emblematic of both—a proposed $95 million police academy on the city’s West Side. Mayor Rah...
Protests in Chicago often center around police misconduct or cuts to education funding. Over the past year, a political battle has unfolded over a project emblematic of both—a proposed $95 million police academy on the city’s West Side. Mayor Rah...
Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of incarcerated minors in the United States. Every day, about 60,000 youth wake up behind bars. The majority have been suspend...
Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of incarcerated minors in the United States. Every day, about 60,000 youth wake up behind bars. The majority have been suspend...
Squeaky chalkboards and overhead projectors have been classroom staples for decades, but the landscape of public education is quickly changing. Today, teachers seamlessly incorporate computers, smartboards, and tablets into their instruction. Yet des...
Squeaky chalkboards and overhead projectors have been classroom staples for decades, but the landscape of public education is quickly changing. Today, teachers seamlessly incorporate computers, smartboards, and tablets into their instruction. Yet des...
In 2014—for the first time ever—pupils of color accounted for more than half of the pupils in public schools. This demographic shift, however, is notably absent in the teacher workforce. In the 2015–16 school year, 80.1 percent of public scho...
In 2014—for the first time ever—pupils of color accounted for more than half of the pupils in public schools. This demographic shift, however, is notably absent in the teacher workforce. In the 2015–16 school year, 80.1 percent of public scho...
At J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero, IL–where 92 percent of students are low-income–AP classes are on the rise. In an effort to increase access to an important component of the college-admissions game, one which is dominated by white...
At J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero, IL–where 92 percent of students are low-income–AP classes are on the rise. In an effort to increase access to an important component of the college-admissions game, one which is dominated by white...
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Americans have long looked west for guidance on what is new and important. It is unsurprising, then, that as Americans begin to think more critically about the endemic sexism in American culture, California is at the...
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Americans have long looked west for guidance on what is new and important. It is unsurprising, then, that as Americans begin to think more critically about the endemic sexism in American culture, California is at the...
From picket protests in Alaska to student walkouts in Oregon, protesters expressed fierce resistance to the confirmation of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The intensity of the opposition pushed two Republican senators to break rank, leading to a...
From picket protests in Alaska to student walkouts in Oregon, protesters expressed fierce resistance to the confirmation of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. The intensity of the opposition pushed two Republican senators to break rank, leading to a...
Dual training, a system in which apprentices split their time between a vocational school and a real-life company work environment, is an extremely prevalent and respected practice in Europe. German children, for example, choose between an academic h...
Dual training, a system in which apprentices split their time between a vocational school and a real-life company work environment, is an extremely prevalent and respected practice in Europe. German children, for example, choose between an academic h...