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Florida Demands Parents Call Their Kids ‘Limited’ or Lose Health Care
America's scarcity model for disability treatment is pushing parents to answer impossible questions.
A New Report Finds Higher Education Funding Is Still Not Back to Pre-Recession Levels
These two charts show what a lost decade of higher education funding looks like.
A Historian of Forgotten Resistance
From pirates to abolitionist dwarves, Marcus Rediker's research tends to unearth radical and oppositional communities.
What I Learned About the State of Education While Visiting My Old High School
I wrote a big ol' feature about what I found there—it's in this month's Pacific Standard—but it's not just the political lessons that stuck with me.
Affirmative Action, Minority Students, and the Rich, White College Applicant
Asian Americans are indeed treated unfairly in admissions, but affirmative action is a convenient scapegoat for those who seek to pit minority groups against each other.
Administrative Support Can Help Retain Isolated Teachers of Color
A sense of support from principals and other higher-ups boosts retention for non-white teachers at schools with largely white staffs, new research finds.
Department of Justice Will Investigate Affirmative Action, Likely as Discrimination Against White Students
The affirmative action policies to be scrutinized typically aim to compensate for historical disadvantages among black and Latino students.
Fighting Poachers With Education, Not Guns
The iconic Kruger National Park is an easy target for the poaching of large animals, especially rhinos and elephants. Those fighting the slaughter say that community education and poverty alleviation yield the best results.
How Sanctuary Cities Are Protecting Their Schoolchildren
New protocols in schools across the country are reassuring their students in the face of a newly weaponized immigration policy.