Education How Should Teachers Deal With Distracting Technology in the Classroom? A new study finds students believe it is a teacher's responsibility to get them to not use technology for purposes unrelated to class. James McWilliams
Social Justice Taking Freedom Taking Freedom: Modern-Day Slavery in America’s Prison Workforce On the labor issues connected with using inmates as extremely low-paid workers in state and federal prisons. Beth Schwartzapfel
Economics How Long Until Women Are Treated as Equals? A report from the World Economic Forum finds that true gender equality is still more than a century away. Kate Wheeling
Economics More Than Teenagers Toasting Buns: The Changing Demographics of Fast-Food Workers The recent strikes show just how untenable the current makeup of the fast-food labor force really is. Paul Hiebert
Economics Brain Drain or ‘Outward Mobility’? Call it whatever you like, but it's actually good for economic development. People in certain places, like the U.K. and Brazil, understand this. Jim Russell