This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During the pandemic, the employment gap between Black and Hispanic Americans and white Americans reached record highs. They were the first fired and the last hired. At the same time, while the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s been a year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered American schools. It was an unprecedented experiment in widespread virtual education, combined with a massive global crisis that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Matt Frey is a data guy. As Executive Director of Instructional Technology at Plano ISD in Texas, he often slips into his district’s sea of digital usage data to understand…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research suggests students have experienced more unfinished learning over the last year than ever before. With the COVID-19 pandemic waning, school systems are facing a critical choice about how to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, more than half of the world’s children are growing up in cities. By 2030, up to 60 percent of the world’s urban population will be under 18-years old. Yet,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though about 12 million students in this country still lack any internet access at all—a problem cast into relief during the pandemic—there is good news: That number is steadily shrinking.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Alphonso Richard Jr. walked into his first teacher education course at Clemson University, he experienced a shock. “Being in a class where you’re the only male, I didn’t know…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Hey, I did have one question …” That was the tentative opening to an email I recently received from a high school teacher. The Ninth Candle, the Holocaust education organization I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I was a charter school leader, I constantly heard reformers justify district takeovers, teacher firings, ineffective voucher programs, and abusive “no excuse” discipline policies by saying, “It’s all about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even as students are sorting through information online more than ever, the number of school librarians who could help them learn the fundamentals of research and media literacy have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Adult children’s educational attainment has an impact on their parents’ mental and physical health, according to a new study. The researchers used a new wave of data from a survey…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “There are many reasons that people become activists on social justice issues, but anyone who is familiar with the civil rights movement of the 1960s could tell you that racism…