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Education & Youth
This School Year, Let’s Keep Kids in Classrooms
There are better ways to help students learn from their behavior than suspension and expulsion.
Teachers Leave For-Profit Charter Schools at Alarming Rates, Report Says
Teachers want more control over their own classrooms.
Back to School and Straight to the Picket Line
Thousands of teachers -- buoyed by inspiring displays of solidarity -- are fighting for long-overdue raises.
How Child Protective Services Can Skip Due Process
Custody transitions are always potentially traumatic.
Outcry Grows Over DeVos Plan to Divert Federal Funds and Put Guns in Schools
The proposal comes after requests from Oklahoma, Texas and other states to train and arm school marshals.
Trump Administration Helped Banks Rip Off Student Borrowers, Official Alleges
The Trump administration is protecting fraudulent lenders, ombudsman Seth Frotman said in his resignation letter.
Schools Need Resources, Not “School Resource Officers”
There are better ways to keep students safe.
Meet the Women Poets Preserving Indigenous Languages in Mexico
“When you lose a language, you lose a whole culture.”
Meet the UNC Student Whose Protest Toppled a Racist Monument
A UNC grad student faces charges and possible expulsion for pouring red ink and her own blood on the statue in April.
North Carolina Protesters Topple Confederate Statue “Silent Sam”
Students denounced school administrators for refusing to remove the symbol of racism and oppression.