The GOP Tax Bill Is Designed to Bully Graduate Students
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.
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Making Homework Matter: Don’t Ban It, Fix It
Administrators, teachers, and parents all seem to have some idea about how to fix homework. Why not ask the students themselves?
Trump’s Projected Education Budget to Make Deep Cuts—Except for School Choice
The cuts are expected to affect 150 positions in the Department of Education.
Appeal Likely in Alabama School Desegregation Case Allowing Mostly White Town to Leave Largely Black District
Gardendale can take over control of its two elementary schools from the Jefferson County district this fall for a three-year period.
The Youngest Casualties in the War on Obesity
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.
Are Healthy Eating Programs at Schools to Blame for Eating Disorders?
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
Test Scores Drop as the School Day Drags on
A Danish study finds a small but important effect of the time of day on standardized test scores.
Millions of Students Attend Schools in ‘Potential Impact Zones’ for Oil Train Disasters
Every week, barrels upon barrels of volatile crude oil crisscross Chicago by rail, endangering tens of thousands of kids.
What Makes You So Smart, Chuck Klosterman?
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.