Education As Schools Try to Become More Culturally Inclusive, Some Teachers Aren’t Buying in A Delaware high school led trainings on the impact of race on learning to try to better serve their student population, resulting in controversy. Kelly Field
News in Brief A Florida Principal’s Reassignment Raises Questions About the Quality of Holocaust Education Recent research suggests that, countrywide, Holocaust educational efforts aren't going far enough. Kelley Czajka
Education A Major New Study Confirms the Academic Benefits of Music Education Research on 112,000 Canadian students finds that high schoolers who took more music courses did better in math, science, and English. Tom Jacobs
Key Takeaways News in Brief A Conservative Christian Group Wants to Keep Transgender Athletes From Girls’ Sports Legal experts say this complaint resonates with a larger pattern of discrimination against transgender girls and women in sports. Emily Moon
Social Justice Are Racist Yearbook Photos Protected Student Speech? Decisions in Illinois and North Carolina to reprint yearbooks with white nationalist photos have prompted a First Amendment debate. Jack Denton
Education ‘We Want a Kid You Don’t Have Any Idea What to Do With’ Sacramento Academic and Vocational Academy helps very vulnerable students succeed in high school—and beyond. Emily Kaplan
Ideas Special Projects Understanding Gen Z How Disparities in Wealth Affect Gen Z’s Experiences With Technology Income has an enormous impact on young people's educational experiences with technology, just as it does on every other aspect of school life. Katie Davis
News in Brief Viewfinder Viewfinder: D.C. Area High School Students Protest Gun Violence Students gather at a gun control rally at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on March 14th, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Pacific Standard Staff
Education 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. David M. Perry
Education The Benefits of Letting Students Sleep In A later start time of the school day is linked to better grades. Tom Jacobs