Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

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

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

In Hobbs, New Mexico, the high school closed and football was cancelled, while just across the state line in Texas, students seemed to be living nearly normal lives. Here’s how pandemic school closures exact their emotional toll on young people.

An interview with Gabriela López, the head of the San Francisco Board of Education.

The phrase ‘adult beginner’ can sound patronising. It implies you are learning something you should have mastered as a child. But learning is not just for the young.

Has a desire to keep the coronavirus out of schools put children’s long-term well-being at stake?

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.

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.