In addition to questions about class size and pay, at the heart of a teachers strike in Los Angeles is a clash over what public education is actually supposed to do: provide an equality of opportunity or aim for an equality of outcomes.
Amid increased scrutiny after the Harvard case, college admissions officers cull the next round of candidates with an eye on all the different ways a student body can be ‘diverse.’
What happens when a journalist returns to her childhood school district to find the great racial strides of the 1970’s unraveling? Ask the Monitor’s Stacy Teicher Khadaroo. Stacy recounts her experience documenting the reversal of racial balance in Buffalo, New York in her recent cover story My hometown schools are segregated again. I went back to see why.
Mexico’s experiment with prescribing songs and games for young children to improve their development is prompting discussion around the question “What is the role of play in education?”
Three mothers in Tulsa are part of billionaire George Kaiser’s bold bet on early child development as an antidote to intergenerational poverty. Their journeys shed light on the promise of philanthropy to close an opportunity gap that opens when children are young and widens as they grow. Part 3 in a series.
What happens when a journalist returns to her childhood school district to find the great racial strides of the 1970’s unraveling? Ask the Monitor’s Stacy Teicher Khadaroo. Stacy recounts her experience documenting the reversal of racial balance in Buffalo, New York in her recent cover story My hometown schools are segregated again. I went back to see why.
As of July, a new law provides foster and homeless young people funding assistance for apprenticeships. One aim is to create options for the thousands of kids who face unemployment when they age out of foster care.
Thirty years after the peak of school integration nationwide, that progress has unraveled. Could the outcome in Buffalo, N.Y., offer lessons on America’s pressing need to address racial separation? Part of an occasional series, Learning Together.
Demographic shifts in the United States mean that students live and learn differently than they did 50 years ago. What can one college’s success with underrepresented students say about how schools keep up with the changing needs of a new generation?
The Birth Through Eight Strategy in Tulsa is designed to be more of a cocoon, where no one falls through the cracks. When social spending by the state lags behind, can private funding make up the difference?
Sexual assault and dating violence can seem like intractable problems. But recognition is growing about how people can make a difference, without waiting for an emergency.
Kim Campbell is the Monitor's education editor and oversees the paper’s Equal...
Stacy is an education reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. She writes...
Story Hinckley is currently a staff writer on the national news desk in Bosto...
Noble Ingram covers education for the Monitor. He graduated from Vassar Colle...