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For Black youth, a police encounter by eighth grade predicts they will be arrested by young adulthood, but research finds the same is not true for white youth. Black young…

Now is the time to double down on the investments we’ve made since 2020 in shoring up our educator workforce and its pipeline.

Enough is enough. We feel this with each school shooting we endure. We feel this with each suicide that takes a loved one from us far too soon. More …

Amid police crackdowns on mutual aid efforts around housing, many activists are finding support in each other.

A new approach that uses artificial intelligence and Twitter language predicts opioid death rates much more accurately than current methods.

A student-turned-teacher aims to equip college students with the knowledge to help solve the climate crisis.

The “leaky pipeline” of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), which is especially acute for academic mothers, continues to be problematic as women face continuous cycles of barriers and obstacles to advancing …

Child care providers and employees have kept our economy going during a time when the government, businesses and families have been focused on COVID-19 “rescue.” Now, as we move to…

Entrance to St. Mark’s Medical Center in LaGrange, Texas (Photo via smmctx.org) LaGrange, Texas, between Austin and Houston, is best known a…

Limited transportation options help explain why Detroit students miss more school than their peers across the U.S., with disastrous consequences.