A Communal Fix for Our Childcare System
While Project 2025 proposes cutting Head Start, communities are ensuring free, quality child care for all.
Education
大象传媒 Media鈥檚 coverage of education centers around efforts to strengthen public education (including universal free child care, K-12 and higher education), while also supporting increased pay and benefits for educators, so that they can teach accurate history, and help create safe, inclusive school environments for students of all ages, backgrounds, identities, and abilities.
A Tool to Tackle Climate Emotions
A wheel of climate emotions helps students navigate feelings about the climate crisis.
Ancestors in Focus
As the sun sets over the Collegiate Peaks in central Colorado, John Edward Graybill blacks out the windows of his kitchen, which doubles as his studio. A single beam of
Unlearning Queerphobia
Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.
We鈥檙e All Responsible for Protecting Public Libraries
In this excerpt from 鈥淭hat Librarian,鈥� Amanda Jones offers a blueprint to battle book censorship in public libraries.
Making Equity Part of the Equation in Math Education
Most Americans report they don鈥檛 know enough math to make routine financial decisions.
Druze Women Balance Sexual Health, Pleasure, and Tradition
Sex education is often taboo in close-knit Druze communities, but a new generation is creating its own care networks.
Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them
The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.
Planning Parenthood for Incarcerated Men
An innovative sex-ed curriculum in Southern California is teaching incarcerated men about consent, birth control, and dismantling masculinity.
Professors Lift Up Student Protests
Some educators are using their institutional positions to help create safe spaces for student activism and challenge policies that restrict free speech.
Chess Captures Life Lessons for Argentinian Youth
Bottle caps transform into queens, knights, and pawns that help kids learn how to regulate emotions, socialize, and resolve conflicts.
Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria
Displaced by climate change, Fulani children are getting access to education no one in their communities has had before.
Who Is Beating Back Book Bans?
Amidst a rising tide of anti-LGBTQ book bans, activists, authors, and librarians are organizing to make sure LGBTQ stories are still heard.
The Heroes Fighting for Public Education
In the face of far-right extremist groups like Moms for Liberty, 鈥渟chool moms鈥� have become the frontline defenders of education for all.
How Philadelphia Disrupted the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.
Centering Indigenous Languages in India鈥檚 Schools
India is among the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, but its Indigenous languages have been marginalized鈥攁long with those who speak them.
Unpacking the SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
Long before the recent ruling, a sequence of the Court鈥檚 decisions had been gradually eroding the practice.
50 Years Later, Hip-Hop Still Impacts U.S. Education
How the popular and powerful music genre made education in the U.S. more accessible and fun.
Afghan Women Use Art to Resist the Taliban
As public spaces for women continue to diminish each day, some Afghan women have transformed a corner of their own homes into a battleground to resist the Taliban鈥檚 oppressive rule.
Tiny Bus, Big Opportunities for Immigrant Kids
El Busesito (鈥渢he little bus鈥�) is a preschool on wheels that delivers free early childhood and family engagement programs to Latino immigrant families in Colorado鈥檚 Roaring Fork Valley.
Instead of Alarmism, This Climate Class Includes Solutions
A student-turned-teacher aims to equip college students with the knowledge to help solve the climate crisis.
Research Shows This Is How to Prevent School Shootings
A pair of researchers on school violence share three strategies that have been proven to prevent school shootings.
A Blueprint for Decolonization in Berlin
Dekoloniale and other groups are confronting Germany鈥檚 colonial past and advocating for a more equitable future.
Teachers and Students Respond to Black History Bans
鈥淭he revolution is in the classroom.鈥�
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