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COLUMN: For better student outcomes, hire more black teachers
Supporting teachers and communities will boost children’s academic achievement
COLUMN: Student loan default rates inch down as for-profit sector contracts
Rise in income-based repayment plans masks distress that default rates used to reveal
COLUMN: Making elite colleges white again
Suing to eliminate consideration of race in college admissions undoes decades of progress
COLUMN: Harvard critic finds white jocks and rich kids get preferential treatment in admissions
Economist estimates that three-fourths of white students who are athletes, legacies, big donors or faculty children would have been rejected
COLUMN: A private school resets its tuition
Other schools should follow suit
COLUMN: How you talk to your child might make them smarter
New research dissects the explanations that parents and teachers give young kids
COLUMN: AI can disrupt racial inequity in schools, or make it much worse
When it comes to tech and education reform, there’s been more talk than transformation
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COLUMN: An analysis of achievement gaps in every school in America shows that poverty is the biggest hurdle
A Stanford study finds that racial segregation matters because black and Hispanic students are concentrated in high poverty schools
COLUMN: Black teachers matter, for students and communities
We learn more from an integrated school staff than just the syllabus
COLUMN: Economists find free community college can backfire
Simulations by researchers find that the most cost effective way to raise college education levels in America would be to increase taxpayer spending at public universities