2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (392+ words) Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink. UW–Milwaukee’s cultural centers, including the Roberto Hernández Center which was founded in 1970 to serve the Latine community,…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (505+ words) The rise of open bigotry, remote learning, and underfunded public schools has white supremacists pulling children out of class and teaching them at home. “We still don’t have good quantification on white nationalist homeschooling,” says Amy Cooter, co-founder of the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1113+ words) Fifteen years ago, thousands of teachers marched on Washington to protest the Obama-era push to privatize public education. Has anything changed? At the time, I was working on a project, partnered with the National Education Association, called “Starving America’s Schools:…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (348+ words) Braden Collum via Unsplash Schools must protect students from extreme heat, indoors and out. by Michelle A. Kirwan Bythwood As summer vacation ends and children return to school, record-breaking heat continues across much of the country. Fortunately, many states and athletic…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (546+ words) Illustration by Christopher Cruz Prisons in New Jersey and across the country are restricting what incarcerated people read and where their books come from. When the Mongols invaded Baghdad in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, they are believed to have…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (441+ words) Voucher and charter school programs are taking funds that could make our public schools stronger. For nearly a decade, the Network for Public Education has issued statehouse-by-statehouse report cards holding legislators accountable for how they treat public schools and the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (443+ words) Florida’s new FACT U.S. History course raises questions about whether U.S. history education should promote democratic critiques or obedience and nationalism. Of course, critics have also noted dozens of glaring omissions in the curriculum. A sampling includes the Black Panthers…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (410+ words) Congress must make sure this vital program is adequately supported. Currently, Head Start doesn’t receive enough public investment to meet the needs of all families who qualify for its services and is only able to serve a fraction of those…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (264+ words) Providing students with age-appropriate books that deal with gender identity and sexual orientation is the right thing to do. The Katy Independent School District in Southwest Texas, near Houston, is nothing if not ambitious. This January alone, it banned 142 books…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (807+ words) by Eleanor J. Bader Over time, however, teachers and school communities realized that while learning these skills is essential, SEL programs are far less effective when they fail to address systemic inequities such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and transphobia, issues…...