It’s Time We Took a Closer Look at Our School District Borders
To understand the importance of school district boundaries, you have to go back to 1974. By Dwyer Gunn…
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More Than 4,000 American Public Schools Still Hit Their Students
Poorer, black kids are the most likely to get the paddle. By Francie Diep (Photo: Nico Paix/Flickr) American…
Teaching Abroad in Tumultuous Times
There’s been an uptick interrorist attacks throughout the West. So why is the U.S. considered safe, and Europe…
A Better Way of Talking About Beauty
In her new book, Autumn Whitefield-Madrano argues that we’d be better off with a more inclusive way of…
How White Space Wi-Fi Could Bring Internet to the Rural Poor
The method could help large swaths of Africa with low population density, but government regulators have been sluggish…
When We Criminalize Students, It’s African-American Kids Who Suffer the Consequences
Zero-tolerance policies were intended to curb the war on drugs in the 1980s. More than 30 years later,…
Lessons From a Year Teaching Digital Literacy
Digital Inclusion Fellows reflect on a year spent spreading digital literacy. By Rick Paulas (Photo: sagesolar/Flickr) In May…
When It Comes to Sex, Baby Boomers Aren’t Normal
A spate of recent articles suggests that Millennials aren’t having “enough” sex—but did anyone ever have the right…
The ‘Smartphone Only’ Problem
Internet access among Latinos in the United States has increased considerably over the past six years, but the…
How the Childfree Decide
When researchers explore why people do not have children, they find that the reasons are strikingly similar to…