40 issues · 2021–2023
The emphasis on higher education and degrees has shifted the labor market to where millions of workers are being filtered out.
A Study Hall discussing book bans, parent's rights, and their roles in ensuring their kids receive a quality education.
The story of the Jena Six highlights the double standard Black students experience in the educational and legal system.
Lawsuits against companies like the Fearless Fund grow following attacks on DEI efforts and the end of affirmative action.
What will come of efforts to diversify college campuses with the end of affirmative action in higher education?
Activists are mobilizing against Moms for Liberty, an organization that is one of the leading forces behind book bans and against LGBTQ+ inclusion and race curriculum.
Amid recent bans, children's book authors face pressure to censor race and racism in culturally and historically sensitive books.
As our communities continue to reel over the latest school shooting, attention to the types of victims of gun violence is left out of discussions.
Growing attacks on anti-racist education threaten Holocaust education and feed into antisemitism.
The outcome of the Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools case will affect the redress disabled students have in resolving disability rights violations from schools.
The classroom has become the battleground for the country's most polarizing and pertinent issues.
Since its publication, the 1619 Project has been challenged by conservatives for attempting to fix the historical whitewashing of American slavery.
Instead of detention, suspension, or expulsion, restorative justice addresses the root of the harm via collaboration.
While some Islamophobic attacks get media attention, everyday bigotry is normalized in many spaces, including schools.
Teachers are fundraising to get air conditioning into their classrooms due to record heat waves and inadequate educational infrastructure.
Critical race theory bans and the efforts to censor conservations about race, sexuality, and gender in the U.S. education system
As degrees become a requirement in the U.S. workforce, student loan debt becomes an unavoidable threat to financial freedom.
Thousands of educator vacancies remain open ahead of the new school year as the teacher retention crisis remains unaddressed.
The school-to-prison pipeline introduces students to the criminal legal system, affecting their mental health, academic potential, and livelihoods.
Vast disparities in public school funding make the educational system a catalyst for inequality, not a guaranteed out from a "cycle of poverty."
The expiration of a federal program that guarantees students access to free school meals has devasting effects on food-insecure children.
The Cops Off Campus Coalition is a network of students, educators, and community members working to abolish policing in the education system.
Antisemitic incidences continue to rise due to the spread of racist misinformation and lack of education on the Holocaust.
Mass student strikes over COVID safeguards continue a long history of student activism in the United States.
Book bans are escalating across the country. But banned books do little to foster a better learning environment for students.
Each school year presents an opportunity to reimagine the education system in ways proven to work and ways we know will benefit the students.
Muslim women are being harassed, fired from jobs, suspended from schools and denied access to public areas because they wear the hijab.
HBCUs are key to increasing representation of Black people in STEM. So why are they historically underfunded?
A recent decision at Harvard sets a new standard for investing in fossil fuels.
Research about issues hurting marginalized communities has skyrocketed. But is it causing more harm than good?
We surveyed educators to learn how the critical race discourse is affecting their classrooms – and how you can help.
New discoveries of unmarked graves bring ongoing injustices against Indigenous communities to the present.
Last week's Supreme Court's decision re-ignites conversations about student-athletes and the role of race and equity in collegiate sports.
Intelligence testing is rooted in racial bias and pseudoscience, which affects how Black football players were tested for brain injuries.
Less than a quarter of community college students who take remedial courses go on to complete college-level courses. At four-year colleges, just over a third of students assigned to remediation continue to take college-level courses. The majority of students assigned to remediation at two-year colleges or universities will not graduate within three years or six years, respectively (Complete College America). Students who take remedial courses pay just as much for these courses as students who begin with college-level courses and are often left with student loan debt for coursework that did not lead to a degree.
Agriculture is in full focus this year with people gaining awareness about how their foods are cultivated. As people across the country found themselves spending more time at home, home and community-based gardening started to rise (MLive). This trend is not limited to adults. It also includes the education provided for students. Agricultural education is a powerful component of racial equity that should be promoted for students across the country.
Hate crime charges serve as a sentencing enhancement when someone acts with bias while committing a crime. This bias must be against members of a protected class – such as a specific race, religion, or sexual orientation – and it must be a motivating factor for the crime (Time). It seems reasonable that a crime is more odious if it occurs solely because the victim is a member of an oppressed community.
The push to ban critical race theory in schools is a part of a broader campaign to discredit the concept of racism and its effect in the U.S.
Unpaid internships are inaccessible and further the economic inequities in education and the workplace by relying on exploitative practices.
As an unaccompanied minor who traveled to the U.S. for refuge, Sergio shares his story and how we can support other unaccompanied youths.