Tag: US education
Gates launches lobbying arm – higher education on agenda
Nicholas Tampio, Fordham University
Bill and Melinda Gates have launched a lobbying group in part to drive their agenda on education.
The move comes as Congress...
What other countries can teach the US about raising teacher pay
David Evans, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Teacher strikes swept the United States in 2018, from West Virginia to Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, North Carolina and beyond....
Are America’s teachers really underpaid?
Michael Addonizio, Wayne State University
In the spring of 2018, thousands of public school teachers walked out of their classrooms in a half-dozen states, protesting...
How activists are fighting racial disparities in school discipline
Mark R Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston
Harsh and racially disparate discipline practices are widespread in America’s schools.
Not so long ago in Texas, for instance,...
Fight for federal right to education takes a new turn
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This...
Betsy DeVos has little to show after 2 years in office
Dustin Hornbeck, Miami University
Despite widespread fear that U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would dismantle the public system of education, she has failed to accomplish...
Here’s how to encourage more girls to pursue science and math...
Jilana Boston, New York University and Andrei Cimpian, New York University
Women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. In the field...
How refugee children make American education stronger
Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College
In recent years, there has been a great deal of public angst about refugee resettlement in the U.S. and Europe. Americans...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
