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Articles tagged with education
When conservatives declare the death of the English major, they highlight the need for the critical thinking skills that English departments excel at teaching.
Sixty-five years after Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. schools remain largely segregated. This matters not only because white and black students experience very different educational outcomes, but also because school is where children form many of their ideas about race and privilege.
The postwar generation understood why a prosperous working class is crucial to the economy. Can economics be accessible again to ordinary Americans?
Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?
Michelle Obama’s new book reduces racial inequality to a matter of psychological impairment that can be overcome through grit and grin.
What happens when a school district votes to arm teachers? A Rust Belt educator takes us through the grim realities of training to kill one of his own students.
Education’s most important job is to teach students to take an active role in their democracy, starting in their own communities.
Few democracies require children to make a daily declaration of fealty to country.
Striking teachers and student activists have a common enemy.
