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Education

Budget Idea: Divert Money From Prisons to Schools

With a quarter of the world's prisoners in American lockups, an unlikely coalition ranging from the NAACP to Americans for Tax Reform wonders if we might be smarter to divert some of that prison money to schools.

Emily Badger

The Cash Benefits of a Catholic Education

Better teachers in Catholic high schools and more semesters of math and language boost student earnings later in life, a study shows.

Melinda Burns

Social Justice

Book Banners Finding Power in Numbers

Efforts to ban books in schools have shifted subjects and tactics, with the efforts of single parents now being replaced by organizations.

Lewis Beale

Education

Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say?

Responding to a defense of charter schools’ record on integration, education professor and blogger James Horn argues that where there’s smoke there is indeed fire.

James Horn

Education

Charter Schools and Equal Opportunity

Charter schools don't foster segregation, argues the former CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, but they do reflect the environments where they toil to create equal opportunity.

Nelson Smith

Education

Asian-American Parenting and Academic Success

When it comes to involvement in their children’s education, Asian Americans have their own distinct style that often pays dividends when report cards arrive.

Kathy Seal

Education

Walking Backward Out the Schoolhouse Door

Desegregation of public schools peaked about two decades ago, and no one at the federal level is doing much to reverse the decline.

Emily Badger

Education

Detroit Reading Corps Battles Poor Test Scores

Faced with catastrophic test scores, Detroit's schools determined that poor reading lay below the surface and mobilized a corps from the community to tackle the problem.

Paul Vachon