A new study explores how children develop a preference for equality and fairness—research that seems relevant as America prepares to elect its next president.
Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency introduces a new challenge for teachers.
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks with the presidents of Harvard and Georgetown about the ways higher-education institutions are acknowledging their histories of slavery and discrimination.
U.S. Education Secretary John King is calling for programs that largely leave it up to parents to desegregate schools. Will that suffice?
The U.S. government is currently placing the burden of desegregation on parents. Here's why that may not work.
In the final installment of our series, a panel of education experts describes what evaluation and accountability look like in the perfect world.
Sorting kids by age or ability creates problems, according to our panel of education experts.
The seats, space, and stuff that idyllic learning environments are made of
As we sifted through responses to the famed University of Chicago letter, we figured it’d be worth spotlighting what instructors…
In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.
Yesterday, my colleague, Bourree Lam, looked at how University of Chicago alumni are responding to the high-profile letter their alma…
Education experts offer their thoughts on how—if at all—schools should assign, grade, and use take-home assignments.
Education experts weigh in on the content areas children should have mastery over by the time they graduate.
We asked education experts how much time they think kids should spend in class. Here's what they had to say.
Why do so many presidents send their kids to private school?
In many high-poverty urban neighborhoods, it’s nearly impossible for a poor child to find something to read in the summer.
The way members of the ‘model minority’ are treated in elite-college admissions could affect race-based standards moving forward.
What’s the best way to prepare special-needs students for the workforce?
Widely seen as the best public-school system in the U.S., the Massachusetts school system’s success can offer lessons to other states.
The city was once a model for public education. Today, its schools are dilapidated, crippled by debt, and underperforming. What happened?