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Changes to the state's evaluation system for schools has thrown the state's school accountability system into flux.

"We are striking because if the social order is disrupted by our refusal to attend school, then the system is forced to face the climate crisis and enact change."

New research presents the best evidence yet that taking arts classes benefits kids academically.

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.

Many schools aren't equipped to meet students where they are—and a big part of that problem centers on schools' and students' limited access to high-quality materials.

Sociologist Eve Ewing analyzes the closings from multiple angles.

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from an interview with Al Gore about climate change to a look at a unique school improvement model that's showing promising results.

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The old, yellow diesel monoliths have been largely unchanged in recent decades, despite evolutions among their public transit counterparts.

On racial segregation in American schools, using the example of St. Louis, Missouri, and its Normandy district.

Displaced Iraqi children from the former embattled city of Mosul attend school at the Hasan Sham camp, east of Erbil in northern Iraq, on November 20th, 2017.

The GOP tax plan won't just shift wealth upward—it'll also remove the educational tools that make it possible for people to shift their own class status.

Administrators, teachers, and parents all seem to have some idea about how to fix homework. Why not ask the students themselves?

The cuts are expected to affect 150 positions in the Department of Education.

Gardendale can take over control of its two elementary schools from the Jefferson County district this fall for a three-year period.

Updates to stories from the Pacific Standard archive.

School-based nutrition and BMI screenings are meant to improve the health of students, but emerging evidence shows that, not only aren't they helping, they also appear to be triggering deadly eating disorders in children. Now, a small group of activists is taking on the system—and making a difference.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

A Danish study finds a small but important effect of the time of day on standardized test scores.

Every week, barrels upon barrels of volatile crude oil crisscross Chicago by rail, endangering tens of thousands of kids.

The writer talks to Pacific Standard about being a dilettante, his brief consideration of graduate school, and why having an intellectual inferiority complex might prevent you from becoming a jerk.

A Japanese study finds suicide is more common among students with birthdays just prior to school eligibility cutoff dates.

An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.

Should kids be led out of class in handcuffs for being late to school?