It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.

Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.

When a group of Black mothers in Ohio were told to wait for school integration, they started marching every day in protest. They kept going for nearly 18 months.

Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

A for-profit coding school that charges nothing but takes a portion of graduates future wages has been lying about how many students actually get placed.

Children with internet implants.

When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.

A student navigates unexpected connections and the threat of terrorism.

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

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.