Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.

Dead and living girls communicate in the aftermath of a disaster.

National developers are behind the proliferation of luxury apartments near college campuses, and they’re driving low-income students farther away.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

California has more charter schools than any other state. But the way they’re overseen is flawed—and questionable operators are making millions.

The physical and sociological effects of climate change in Thailand.

The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.

More than 600,000 U.S.-born children of undocumented parents live in Mexico. What happens when you return to a country you’ve never known?

The actual story behind those viral college acceptance videos out of T.M. Landry.

Forty years ago, a trio of student teachers created the most popular educational game of all-time.

The lives of a mortician mother and a wayward veteran stepfather.

What if your son’s school thinks he might be a potential school shooter?

Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school? A rare look inside one of the only high schools at an adult jail

How Jerry Falwell Jr. transformed Liberty University, one of the religious right’s most powerful institutions, into a wildly lucrative online empire.

The interactions of inmates and a teacher at a women's prison.

Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.

A teenager faces a series of escalating life challenges.

Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?

Senior House was a haven for creative outsiders. In a move that is being echoed on campuses around the country, administrators said it was dangerous and shut it down.

They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?

What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.

On affirmative action at the University of Texas, the essence of privilege, and getting what you deserve.

This job—writing college essays for Abigail Fishers—was the only job I have ever been truly ashamed of, and I am so ashamed of it now that it hurts.

Theresa Buchanan, a professor at LSU, “used the f-word in class, overshared about her personal life, and could be brutally candid in her critiques of the student teachers under her tutelage.” Should she have been fired?

A story of maps, travels, and (un)couplings.