Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.

The fact that we still don’t have the testing capacity we need to ensure kids are safe in schools is the real problem.

Around the country, conservative parents are merging moral panics about critical race theory and queerness into one noxious package.

Failing to mask fully, provide testing, consider community Covid rates, and support teachers has turned the fall term into a nightmare.

Classes are being canceled, and teachers are being fired, as “anti–critical race theory” fights are coming to a head in Republican states. But the viral school board videos are only part of the story.

It’s politically savvy for Democrats to avoid wading into the “critical race theory” culture war. It’s also a dereliction of duty.

The USDA created a wildly successful universal nutrition program in public schools to alleviate the burdens of the pandemic. Make that temporary benefit permanent.

Teachers unions were accused of being obstinate and compromising education. The real story is a lot more complex.

Betsy Devos was no exception in education. She pushed an agenda that Republicans and Democrats have strangely united behind for years.

They’ve always overcharged for books. Now they’re demanding obscene costs for e-books.

There is no way to separate the emergencies of the pandemic from the preexisting structural conditions forged by America’s legacy of broken trust responsibilities.

“It’s almost as if we’re guinea pigs in some way.”

New York City schools are supposed to be back in session in September. Are they ready?

The secretary of education wants religious schools to flourish at the public system’s expense; and she’s doing it under the cover of the coronavirus crisis.

Teachers routinely go above and beyond the call of duty, but hastily reopening schools during a pandemic puts students, families, and all of us at risk.

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.

A deep dive into what the research says about the question on every parent’s mind

As families face food insecurity and homelessness, lobbyists, massive corporations, and the American war machine are living large.

My students are stressed, their families are sick, and teachers like me are trying to hold it all together.

School segregation is on the rise. Can decades of data on thriving, integrated schools show the way forward?