EqualEd
Can small liberal arts colleges survive the next decade?
Hampshire College, the famously experimental liberal arts college in Amherst, Mass., is facing dire financial straits. Is the school a bellwether for the collapse of small colleges that rely on tuition?
Pioneering spirit: How one school helps Latino students tackle AP tests
An increase in Latino teens taking and passing Advanced Placement tests is drawing attention to the schools seeing success. At one in Texas, the focus on self-cultivation could offer a model for educators elsewhere.
Beyond test scores: How well do cities love their children?
For students to succeed, they often need help with more than just academics. A new tool measures many ways cities can support equitable education, and encourages collective effort.
When students choose, they learn better. How can schools deliver?
If teachers are missing an opportunity to give students more control and motivation, it’s because there are so many ways to do it.
This Texas town breeds something students need: confidence
Faced with declining enrollment and funds, rural schools are in problem-solving mode. Roscoe, Texas, pushed for changes aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty. What lessons might its approach hold for other districts like it?
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Behind LA teachers strike, a ‘battle for the soul’ of public education
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.
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Debating an evolving definition of ‘diversity’ on campus
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.’
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An eye-opener for a journalist who goes back to school
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.
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Mexico tells early learners: You need to play more.
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?”
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How Tulsa’s bold experiment is bringing families closer to stability
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.
An eye-opener for a journalist who goes back to school
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.
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How one state gives foster kids a better path to jobs
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.
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Cover Story My hometown schools are segregated again. I went back to see why.
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.
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On college campuses, planning for a post-Millennial future
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?
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Home visits for new moms offer a more robust social safety net in Tulsa
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?
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Stopping sexual assault: Students turn to video games to empower bystanders
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.
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Kim Campbell
Kim Campbell is the Monitor's education editor and oversees the paper’s Equal...
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Stacy Teicher Khadaroo
Stacy is an education reporter for the Christian Science Monitor. She writes...
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Story Hinckley
Story Hinckley is currently a staff writer on the national news desk in Bosto...
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Noble Ingram
Noble Ingram covers education for the Monitor. He graduated from Vassar Colle...
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