How Public Schools Can Break the Digital Divide
This NYC teacher says going back to school amid COVID-19 is an opportunity to finally stop virtually segregating schools.
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.
How Colleges Are Supporting Students Leaving Abusive Relationships
Relationship violence threatens not only students鈥� physical safety and emotional well-being, but also their academic prospects. Some campuses are finding solutions to help keep survivors in school.
Basic Education Is Now a Constitutional Right
Although each state's constitution contains a right to education, state courts interpret these rights in different ways鈥攕ometimes to the detriment of children.
How Schools Worldwide Are Tackling the Coronavirus Challenge
Schools are closed for hundreds of millions of students, but educators, parents, and children are still learning鈥攊ncluding how to keep a sense of connection.
Appalachian Students Displaced by Outbreak Get a Lifeline
Kentucky鈥檚 Berea College closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it鈥檚 not stopping the work of supporting students.
Are Community Schools the Future of Education Reform?
鈥淚f we help them tap it, our kids have endless potential.鈥�
Harvard Students Connect the Dots Between Slavery and Prison
Students suing the Ivy League say rather than helping to dismantle the system of 鈥渉uman caging,鈥� the school is profiting from it.
Teen Wellness Starts Inside High Schools
Planned Parenthood鈥檚 new Wellbeing Centers in Los Angeles offer much-needed resources and care for teens and their parents.
How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History
In the summer of 2017, before her senior year of high school, Isabelle Doerre-Torres met Carlos,* a Salvadoran immigrant on the verge of deportation. Doerre-Torres was an intern at a
Nurturing the Future of the Northern Triangle
Gabriela Yanes, 19, is from one of El Salvador鈥檚 most dangerous municipalities, Las Palmas. Her parents run a food store out of their home, selling rice and other basic commodities
A Return to Nature-Based Education
At the beginning of the 20th century, untempered industrialization and rampant deforestation prompted the conservation and preservation movements. The creation of Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks at the end of
How Schools Can Sustain Students鈥� Cultures
High school students enter a classroom at Rainier Beach High School in Seattle on an October morning. They sit at their desks, but they鈥檙e soon asked to rearrange their chairs
Rethinking 鈥淢uffins with Moms鈥� and 鈥淒onuts with Dads鈥�
While student鈥揻amily events are well-intentioned, they can also exclude certain students. Teachers are pushing for activities that include all the important adults in a child鈥檚 life.
How Do We Teach 鈥淭o Kill a Mockingbird鈥� and Honestly Confront Racism?
Harper Lee鈥檚 novel is the closest thing America鈥檚 had to required reading. But the book鈥檚 failings in confronting racism are more apparent than ever to White educators鈥攁nd Black ones wonder what took so long.
Our Public Schools Are Still Separate and Unequal
We are dealing with the repercussions of separating children by race, now more than ever.
Debt Collectors Over Kids鈥� School Lunch Bills? It鈥檚 Real
School nutrition advocates say universal school lunch programs are the surest way to guarantee healthy meals for all students鈥攚ithout impacting school operating budgets.
The Kitchen as Classroom: How Food Helps Students Learn Leadership
The Detroit Food Academy works with local educators, chefs, and business owners to teach young people entrepreneurial skills.
Why I Decided to Come Out to My Students as a Trans Man
I had read stories of teachers being fired. I decided that was a risk I was willing to take for the opportunity to teach with my whole self.
This Farmers Market Is Part of a Plan to Reduce Teen Births
A youth program in Orlando, Florida, wants to decrease high school dropouts, juvenile arrests, and teen births. And it鈥檚 working.
This Is How White Privilege Goes to College
The recent college cheating scandal surprises no one. The superrich have long relied on 鈥渓egacy admissions鈥� to get them into their elite college of choice.
3 Things Schools Should Teach About America鈥檚 History of White Supremacy
Lesson plans tend to gloss over the U.S.鈥檚 deeply entrenched institutional racism. Here鈥檚 what should be added.
How to Talk to Kids About Climate Change (and Have Fun, Too)
We can empower children to be a part of the solution.
California Decision Aims to End Aggressive Policing in Schools
And it offers a blueprint for reforming other districts that suffer from overpolicing.
What the Arrest of a Model Teacher Says About Education 鈥淩eform鈥�
With a corporate agenda driving standardized testing in Atlanta schools, young educator Shani Robinson found herself facing prison.
Outdoor Recreation Isn鈥檛 Just for Privileged White Folks Anymore
These organizations help kids of all economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds benefit from adventures in nature.
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