University of East Anglia student union officials orders Tex-Mex restaurant to stop handing out free sombreros to students

Imagine you had to take an art class in which you were taught how to paint a fence or a wall, but you were never shown the paintings of the great masters, and you weren't even told that such paintings existed. Pretty soon you'd be asking, why study art?

students who use computers very frequently at school do a lot worse in most learning outcomes, even after accounting for social background and student demographics

While 87 percent of Boston Public Schools students are minorities, only 38 percent of teachers are people of color. The city is deploying new efforts to diversify its pool of teachers. And some efforts are starting to pay off as 25 percent of the new teachers hired this school year are black.

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After a national uproar over a Washington State professor who threatened to mark down or even fail students who used words such as “illegal aliens,” “tranny,” or referring to men and women as “male or female,” campus officials on Monday came out in strong support of free speech, pledging to “modify” syllabuses that ban words.

The takeover by charter programs hasn’t helped the worst-off kids. By Andrea Gabor.

This story was reported through the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica. The Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University provided support for this project. In the fall of 2003, police in New Jersey received a call from a concerned neighbor who’d found a young man rummaging in her garbage,...

Journalist Suki Kim talks about going undercover in North Korea and discovering a world bound in secrecy and lies.

Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina wiped out huge swaths of the city’s infrastructure and displaced its population, a disaster that paradoxically gave the city the chance to redesign its failing school system. Rather than re-create the neighborhood-based schools that had recapitulated generations of poverty, the city created a network of public charter schools. The charters, which have open admission and public accountability, have produced spectacular results.

The first-year dissection is often an experience that teaches medical students to emotionally detach from their patients. By forcing future doctors to learn about the lives of their cadavers, some medical schools are trying to reverse the effect. By John Tyler Allen. (July 28)

When students returned to Biloxi Junior High School this month, the buzz was not just about their summer vacations but about reading and books, and it is all thanks to two teachers. Elizabeth Williams and Stacey Butera, eighth-grade English language arts (ELA) teachers at the Biloxi, Mississippi,...

How a promising but oversimplified idea caught fire, then got coopted by conservative ideology

The History of the Future of Education Technology

Which lynching poems get taught, which do not, and why. By Hollis Robbins.

The drive to perfection has made children risk averse for fear of failure. Parents and teachers can work together to give kids more autonomy and opportunities for agency.

A famous researcher slams popular ideas in a controversial new paper. Hattie directs the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also directs something called the Science of Learning Research Centre, which works with over 7,000 schools worldwide. Over the past 28 years he has published a dozen books, mostly on a theory he calls Visible Learning. His life's work boils down to one proposition: To improve schools, draw on the best evidence available.

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Twenty percent of New York State’s third through eighth graders sat out at least one of New York’s standardized tests this year, state education officials said Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.