Politics

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.

Switching sides in the teacher wars

In Rhode Island, Deborah Gist was an education reformer pushing school accountability. Then she came to Oklahoma, where the biggest challenge is getting schools the basics.

High School Reform

by  Amadou Diallo  – February 3, 2019

High schoolers in a social studies class at Patchogue-Medford work on a lesson about the history of nationalism.

After a hate crime, a town welcomes immigrants into its schools

Patchogue, Long Island, site of a brutal anti-immigrant murder in 2008, has revamped its school programs to better assist young people fleeing violence in Central America

Immigration

by  Sarah Garland  – February 1, 2019

The Thompson family, (from left) Clive, CJ, Christine, Oneita and Timothy, stand in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, where the parents and their two youngest children have been living since August.

Going to school when your family is in hiding from ICE

ICE allowed a Jamaican family to stay in the country for years, then suddenly ordered them deported last summer. Now, as the family seeks sanctuary in a church, the children are struggling to maintain their grades and dreams of college

Higher Education

by  Kate Kilpatrick  – January 31, 2019

Mississippi

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests. A legacy of racism and segregation are among the roadblocks that keep the children of Mississippi from reaching their full potential.
Abby Rubio, left, and her sister, Noemi, sit on Abby’s bed in their shared bedroom.

Why a Texas school district is helping immigrants facing deportation

Deep in Trump country, a superintendent helps his students and their families cope after an ICE raid

Immigration

by Kate Kilpatrick  – January 29, 2019

COLUMN: Schools should not be battlegrounds for Trump’s fake war

Schools bear the brunt of the immigration crisis

Early Education

by  Andre Perry  – January 29, 2019

Girls Coach Katie Lucky-Heard (left, white shirt) delivered a half-time pep talk to her team. “Tú puedes,” she said. You can do it.

Immigrant students once barred from sports can now play in Louisiana

The state’s athletic association lifts a rule requiring social security numbers after an outcry by educators and activists

Immigration

by  Casey Parks  – January 28, 2019

COLUMN: To un-muzzle upstart Negros, we need black-owned news media

Mainstream media generally reflects the views of the ruling class

Early Education

by  Andre Perry  – January 22, 2019

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Students dance during an after school 'Love for Learning' night of activities with parents and children at the Byrd First Class Early Learning Center on February 12, 2015 in Selma, Alabama. The Byrd First Class Early Learning Center houses all of the city's pre-K students in one school.

COLUMN: Bold, progressive ideas aren’t unrealistic

Old-school Democrats should embrace ambitious policies, as the working-class whites they covet do

Early Education

by  Andre Perry  – January 8, 2019

Glenda Martin of Fort Dodge borrowed $23,000. She said that she supported Iowa’s 2,100-hour requirement in theory but that in practice, many of those hours were wasted.

Tangled up in debt

Beauty schools profit while their students find the promise of a lucrative career elusive

Higher Education

by Sarah Butrymowicz  and  Meredith Kolodner  – December 26, 2018

COLUMN: For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

Students who feel disconnected from their community are more likely to lash out

Higher Education

by  Andre Perry  – December 4, 2018

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