As a Six-Year-Old, Leona Tate Helped Desegregate Schools. Now She Wants Others to Learn That History.
Tate plans to open an educational center in the New Orleans school she attended as one of only three black students in 1960.
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Nuclear Scientists Continue to Search for Undiscovered Isotopes
Nuclear researchers suspect that there are nearly 4,000 undiscovered nuclei that may help lead us to new machines and practices that benefit human life.
Our Best Education Stories of 2018
Our best reporting on education inequality—and those working to remedy it.
The Five-Paragraph Essay Must Die
In his new book, John Warner argues that we can't fix how we teach writing unless we also fix a toxic mode of high school assessment.
Restraint in Schools and the Death of an Autistic Child
These policies continue to traumatize and endanger children and teens.
How Schools Can Finally Do Right by Native Students
After decades of diversity initiatives and tokenization, Native students deserve advisers who look like them—and a curriculum that treats them as equals.
A Legislative Battle Looms Over Arizona’s Repressive LGBT Education Laws
It is one of seven states with laws that prohibit the promotion of homosexuality and that expressly forbid teachers of health and sexuality education from discussing LGBT issues in a positive light—if at all.
The Role of Big Data in Science’s Reproducibility Crisis
The reproducibility crisis is driven, in part, by invalid statistical analyses that are from data-driven hypotheses.
A Rural Oklahoma Charter School’s Focus on the Workforce Is Dividing Its Community
A savvy businessman outmaneuvered community opponents to bring a charter school to a struggling small town. Now he wants to expand to others like it.
The Benefits of Letting Students Sleep In
A later start time of the school day is linked to better grades.