This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Latisha Coleman, director of Redesign and assistant principal at Anacostia High School in Washington, DC, made some tough calls last year. Before COVID-19, the school had worked closely with families…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Education has a data problem. At the end of every academic year, school leaders routinely ponder what they could have done differently to better help their students succeed. Mountains of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Malini lives in the district of Nuh in Haryana in India. She is currently enrolled in eighth grade and has been using her father’s phone for an hour a few…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Trauma can affect students greatly, and when this trauma includes the fear of being deported or the fear of a family member being deported, students can have a difficult time…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although the pandemic has been devastating for everyone, it’s been especially hard for college student mothers. Many were forced by school and day care closures to prioritize care and remote learning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every time Ana Ponce drives down the highway between Los Angeles and San Diego, she’s haunted by a childhood memory: Her night in lockup — the sterile white room, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Maggie Anderson teaches sixth grade at Greenfield School. Her principal, Paul Wilson, thinks she does a great job and is happy to have her. But until recently Anderson, a Vermont…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the bipartisan infrastructure package is likely to include benefits for rural areas, such as funds to improve roads, bridges, and waterways, so far it does not include support for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To encourage young people to get COVID vaccines before the first day of school on Sept. 13, the city is opening 25 pop-up vaccination sites at Summer Rising programs starting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether it’s seeing violent behavior with a family or among others in the neighborhood, or in movies, television, or violent video games, the gun use and acceptance among young adults…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Long before coronavirus vaccines started being widely administered in the country, public health agencies made recommendations on improving building ventilation, as the virus is thought to primarily spread through airborne respiratory droplets.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New York City teachers will be required to be vaccinated by the time school reopens in September, or be tested weekly, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The city is…