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.
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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 Monday, the Supreme Court made a decision that could significantly impact the lives of student-athletes. The Court ruled against the National College Athletic Association to allow student-athletes to receive education-related payments of up to $6,000 a year and unlimited non-cash education-related benefits (CNN). College sports bring in billions of dollars of revenue each year. The 2019 March Madness tournament was estimated to have brought $1.18 billion in advertising revenue for CBS and Turner Sports, with networks paying about $800 million for the rights (CNBC). Given the profitability of college athletics, it would be expected that athletes receive fair compensation for the labor that they perform.
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.
