Kids, you're not 'stamped'
Moshe K. Levy considers himself "pro-human" rather than "anti-racist," he writes on FAIR's site. So he's not a fan of Ibram X. Kendi's...
Want to be antiracist? Teach kids to read
Education Week reports that a growing number of school districts are asking would-be teachers: "What have you done personally or...
If you want to speak up, you'd better be a saint
Princeton's president wants to fire a tenured classics professor, but claims it's not because he criticized "anti-racist" proposals,...
Causing discomfort remains legal
Lessons that cause students discomfort remain legal everywhere, even in Florida, writes Peter Minowitz, a Santa Clara University...
What's 'age appropriate' for young students?
Parents and teachers want lessons to be "age appropriate," but disagree on when children are ready for painful topics, writes Marta W....
Teaching about racism: Americans are divided
Americans agree that schools should teach about historic racism and slavery, but divided on present-day racism, writes Matt Barnum on...
Is social-emotional learning a Trojan horse?
While social-emotional learning sounds "positive and uncontroversial" in theory, "in practice, SEL serves as a delivery mechanism for...
Closing the Racial Achievement Gap, Or Not
A contrarian view, to be sure, but I can't say the author's wrong: In 2015, MCPS (Montgomery County, MD, Public Schools) embarked on a...
Segregation?
What are the possible explanations for this phenomenon? But more troubling, and often less discussed, is the modern-day form of...
If schooling was as important as football
Vesia Hawkins loves football, she writes on Volume & Light, which follows Nashville schools. This year, she's taking her young cousin to...
Black boys lack 'a teacher who looks like me'
Boys do better with male teachers and non-white students better with a same-race teacher, studies show. Yet, 77 percent of teachers are...
Why black teachers quit
"In recent years, there's been an increased push to get more teachers of color into the classroom, often highlighting large gaps between...
New Orleans improves — a lot
"After Katrina's devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America," writes David...
Less discipline, more disorder
– Education Next 2015 The Obama-era push to reduce suspensions of black students ended up hurting black students, writes Gail Heriot, a...
Is this the end of race-based admissions preferences?
The Trump administration has revoked Obama-era guidelines calling for colleges to use race in admissions. In a joint letter Tuesday, the...
Does babytalk matter? Word gap wrangle
By the age of three, children growing up in poverty hear 30 million fewer words than the children of educated parents, concluded a study...
An Evergreen Headline
Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the "no whites allowed" fracas of last year? Has it perhaps harmed the school's...
Is This <i>Really</i> Insensitive?
Or will some people look for any excuse to act aggrieved? The principal of Cherry Hill High School East has apologized for "insensitive"...
Glitter jars, bean bags and progress
At a Columbus, Ohio school in a high-poverty neighborhood, teachers use different strategies to help children learn to calm themselves,...
Today, the anniversary of the Columbine massacre, students are being urged to walk out of school to protest school shootings, register...