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Tiana Young is a freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where a racist Facebook post from a student in the alt-right group Turning Point left the African-American community shaken and frustrated by the school's lack of public response.
Posted inDivided We Learn, High School Reform, Higher Education, News, Race and Equity, Solutions

To attract more blacks and Hispanics to STEM, universities must address racial issues on campus

by Stuart Miller January 23, 2018April 8, 2021
Posted inNews

Fewer teenage mothers, but they still present a dropout puzzle

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay January 22, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

Governments are spending billions more on education, and it’s making inequality worse

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay January 15, 2018October 21, 2020
Posted inColumnists, Elementary to High School, Future of Learning, Higher Education, News, Proof Points

Counting your way to a college A

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay January 8, 2018April 8, 2021
Montessori
Posted inColumnists, Early Education, Elementary to High School, News, Proof Points

Rival studies shed light on the merits of a Montessori education

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay January 1, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

Can sadness be good for reading?

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay December 18, 2017April 8, 2021
Sanborn Regional High School student Jailee Thibeault does research during her social studies class. Each student chose a different figure from the American Civil War to profile.
Posted inElementary to High School

Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

by Meghan E. Murphy December 7, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inNews

Teachers often ask youngsters to learn in ways that exceed even adult-sized attention spans

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay December 4, 2017March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

U.S. ranks No. 13 in new collaborative problem-solving test

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay November 27, 2017January 27, 2023
Posted inNews

The U.S. might have been 19th in the world in math (instead of 36th) if we’d bribed our students with $25

Avatar photo by Jill Barshay November 20, 2017March 30, 2020

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