Education

Isolated. Abused. Overworked. These are the themes that emerged when I invited nine Black women to chronicle their professional experiences and relationships with colleagues as they earned their Ph.D.s at…

After myriad funder press releases and pledges, both racial equity and racial justice grantmaking dropped significantly between 2018 and 2021.

When it comes to teaching students about climate activism, educators waver between empowering young citizens and courting controversy.

Seph was a participant in our Voices of Change research project on Black women’s classroom experiences. We learned how a non-binary teacher negotiates …

America’s relative lack of investment in child care disproportionately hurts Black educators, children and families. Pre-pandemic, there was limited availability of affordable options; new closures will deepen the challenges.

Students tend to grow up feeling as if learning is a stressful chore while play is a reward.

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but homeschooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the…

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning …

Some 1,600 special education students don’t get to school regularly. At some schools, more than three-fourths miss weeks of class.

As nightstand “To Be Read” piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming…

The pandemic has proved in the starkest of terms the importance of childcare and preschool programs. Working parents have overnight found their childcare upended as capacity and hours shrunk or…

Teachers see the pandemic learning loss that persists, and know that the need for help and funding continues.