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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Authoritarian Minds of Preschoolers
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.
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Saul Loeb / AP Is This What Our Children Will Learn?
Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency introduces a new challenge for teachers.
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Max Taylor Photography How Should Universities Atone for Their Past Mistakes?
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.
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Danny Johnston / AP In Pursuit of Integration
U.S. Education Secretary John King is calling for programs that largely leave it up to parents to desegregate schools. Will that suffice?
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Can School Integration Make a Comeback?
The U.S. government is currently placing the burden of desegregation on parents. Here's why that may not work.
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Guillermo del Olmo / Shutterstock / Zak Bickel ... The Failing Grade for Tests
In the final installment of our series, a panel of education experts describes what evaluation and accountability look like in the perfect world.
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Guillermo del Olmo / vicgmyr / Shutterstock / ... What If Schools Abolished Grade Levels?
Sorting kids by age or ability creates problems, according to our panel of education experts.
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Guillermo del Olmo / PinkPueblo / Shutterstock / ... Reimagining the Modern Classroom
The seats, space, and stuff that idyllic learning environments are made of
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What ‘Safe Space’ Looks Like in the Classroom
As we sifted through responses to the famed University of Chicago letter, we figured it’d be worth spotlighting what instructors…
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Guillermo del Olmo / Valentina Razumova / Shutterstock ... Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard
In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.
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What Is a Trigger Warning, Anyway?
Yesterday, my colleague, Bourree Lam, looked at how University of Chicago alumni are responding to the high-profile letter their alma…
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Guillermo del Olmo / Africa Studio / Shutterstock ... When Homework Is Useless
Education experts offer their thoughts on how—if at all—schools should assign, grade, and use take-home assignments.
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Guillermo del Olmo / Picsfive / Shutterstock / ... What Kids Should Know by the Time They're Done With School
Education experts weigh in on the content areas children should have mastery over by the time they graduate.
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Guillermo del Olmo / erashov / Shutterstock / ... Fixing America's Broken School Calendar
We asked education experts how much time they think kids should spend in class. Here's what they had to say.
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Jim Young / Reuters A Public-School Paradox
Why do so many presidents send their kids to private school?
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LM Otero / AP Where Books Are All But Nonexistent
In many high-poverty urban neighborhoods, it’s nearly impossible for a poor child to find something to read in the summer.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Asian Americans and the Future of Affirmative Action
The way members of the ‘model minority’ are treated in elite-college admissions could affect race-based standards moving forward.
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Grey Korhonen / The Atlantic Escaping the Disability Trap
What’s the best way to prepare special-needs students for the workforce?
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cliff1066 / Wikimedia What Are Massachusetts Public Schools Doing Right?
Widely seen as the best public-school system in the U.S., the Massachusetts school system’s success can offer lessons to other states.
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Inside Detroit's Failing Public Schools
The city was once a model for public education. Today, its schools are dilapidated, crippled by debt, and underperforming. What happened?
