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What If Education Reform Got It All Wrong in the First Place?

That’s the conclusion of a growing number of researchers who argue that 30 years of test scores have not measured a decline in public schools, but are rather a metric of the country’s child poverty and the broadening divide of income inequality.

Bill Raden

Education

Private University Police Patrol Off-Campus (and Off the Record)

Members of the University of Chicago Police Department carry guns, make arrests, and patrol tens of thousands of residents unaffiliated with the university—but they don’t have to disclose any information about stops, arrests, and policies. Two Illinois Representatives are finally trying to change that.

Hannah K. Gold

Education

Does Education Have Any Place in College Sports Programs?

The Big Ten Conference's Year of Readiness proposal, which would push freshman athletes to the sidelines, is supposedly about giving students time to explore educational opportunities, but the financial benefits to colleges and universities are hard to ignore.

Josh Planos

Education

Tracking the Evolving Brain of the Young Musician

An ambitious five-year study of young orchestral players aims to determine how taking group music lessons impacts them intellectually and emotionally.

Tom Jacobs

Education

We Need to Talk About Our Periods

People, it seems, are comfortable talking about contraception and about girls living in poverty, but not about their periods, which remain a major hurdle to education in places where adequate facilities are non-existent.

Marni Sommer & Bethany Caruso

Education

How an After-School Program Fought Crime

A police force and an after-school program in Costa Mesa, California, worked together to make a neighborhood safer and send kids to college. What can we learn from their success?

Nicole Shine

Education

The Existential Crisis of the American University

Higher education in the United States rules the world. What's wrong with it?

Jim Russell

Education

Don’t Give My Kid an Award in School

My son is right: His “Leader of the Month” award is stupid. Instead, I want to give him a lesson in what it means to have privilege—and what it means for those who don’t.

Livia Gershon