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July 27, 2020
Susie Armitage
The Growing Fight Against the School Death Trap
Teachers, bus drivers, health aides, and other school workers are organizing against a culture that is trying to feed them into the jaws of the pandemic.
July 23, 2020
Melody Schreiber
Here’s What It Would Take to Reopen Schools Safely
A deep dive into what the research says about the question on every parent’s mind
July 10, 2020
J.C. Pan
There’s No Such Thing as Pandemic Austerity for Billionaires
As families face food insecurity and homelessness, lobbyists, massive corporations, and the American war machine are living large.
May 5, 2020
Annie Tan
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J.C. Pan
I’m Teaching From Home and Don’t Know How Long We Can Keep This Up
My students are stressed, their families are sick, and teachers like me are trying to hold it all together.
August 23, 2019
Michelle Adams
The Integration Success Stories
School segregation is on the rise. Can decades of data on thriving, integrated schools show the way forward?
November 15, 2018
Richard D. Kahlenberg
The Struggle to Save Our Schools
How do we go about putting democracy back into public education?
February 16, 2018
Sarah Jones
The Mental Health Scapegoat
The GOP's hand-wringing over "deranged" individuals distracts from America's real pathology: guns.
January 30, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
A Texas Law Would Let Teachers Shoot Students Who "Threaten" School Property. Guess Which Students Would Suffer Most?
November 21, 2014
Helen Vendler
Save the Humanities in Our Public Schools
We're depriving students of their national heritage. Here's how to fix that.
November 7, 2014
Molly Mirhashem
Why Do Some High Schools Have 'Mean Girls' and Others Don't? A New Study Explains
May 16, 2014
Arit John
Even Well-Integrated Schools Treat Black Students Differently
Sixty years after Brown v. Board, America's classrooms may not be separate, but they're still not equal
May 23, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Apple's Tax Hypocrisy
Tech says there's a shortage in homegrown talent—but tax avoidance only makes it worse
March 12, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Trouble with Boys-Only Schooling
Advocates say parents should be able to choose single-sex public schools. It's not clear if that's a good choice
February 27, 1995
Adrian Wooldridge
Bell Curve Liberals
How the left betrayed I.Q.
October 5, 1963
Paul Goodman
Why Go to School?
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Randolph Bourne
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Call this thing that goes on in the modern classroom schooling, if you like. Just don’t call it education.
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