Do Schools Need Sports?
Struggling New Orleans high schools gave up football in order to focus on academics—but they’re starting to question whether it has to be all or nothing.
Why Students Are Still Spending So Much for College Textbooks
New technologies are revolutionizing education—but they’re also keeping prices high.
Why Are Women Still Choosing the Lowest-Paying Jobs?
The vocational programs that tend to attract females also lead to the least-lucrative professions. That’s hurting them—and the economy.
The Sex-Abuse Victims America Ignored
It took way too long for the Michigan State University gymnastics scandal to capture the country’s attention—and it’s easy to see why.
A Root Cause of the Teacher-Diversity Problem
Conversations focus on getting more black educators into the profession—but what if the problem starts with bias in hiring practices?
What School-Funding Debates Ignore
Money matters, but educational inequality goes much deeper.
Why Aren't College Students Using Career Services?
Harnessing the resource could help them achieve the graduate’s dream: finding a job.
How to Rile Up Education Debates With One Word
A new poll shows Americans are more likely to disapprove of “vouchers” than of similar school-choice programs with other names.
The Students Who Don’t Believe College Is an Option
The proportion of graduates from predominantly nonwhite rural schools who pursue higher education is declining.
How Colleges Foretold the #MeToo Movement
The current moment illustrates what many schools have known, and been reckoning with, for years.
What College Is Like as a Single Mother
For nearly one in five female college students, child-care costs and the responsibilities of parenting make graduating far from easy.
Overhauling Japan's High-Stakes University-Admission System
The Ministry of Education is on a mission to save the country's economy—and the effort could be a boon for kids’ mental health, too.
Is School-Discipline Reform Moving Too Fast?
In some districts, efforts to curb suspensions result in rushed solutions and even a loss of teachers.
Is the ‘War on Teachers’ as Dire as It’s Made Out to Be?
A decline in job protections isn’t pushing teachers out of all schools, a study suggests—just those schools that are already struggling.
The False Promises of Worker Retraining
Despite assurances from policymakers that retraining is the key to success, such programs have consistently failed to equip workers with the preparation they need to secure jobs.
Filling America's 6 Million Job Vacancies
Real-time data on the labor market promise to finally help employers and job-seekers make better decisions. Will it work?
Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?
Children’s shows often use non-standard dialects to voice the "bad guys," sending a dangerous message to kids about diversity.
Why Is the U.S. So Bad at Worker Retraining?
The strategies used to help workers displaced by technology and globalization in the 1980s ultimately failed. So why do the country’s policymakers continue to resort to the same tactics?
9 Charts That Show What Education in America Is Like in 2017
Compelling visuals on the key issues of the past year
The Futility of College Interviews
They’re a stressful and often irrelevant component of the application process. Is it time to do away with them?