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Educational Woes: Mexico’s need for investment in human capital
The 2018 Mexican Federal Election proved to be a critical juncture for Mexico, as the left-wing candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
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Mar 2, 20195 min read


Teachers Rule, Contracts Drool: Rising up for Teachers in Providence and Beyond
At the beginning of the 2018 school year, Providence teachers entered work-to-rule status as a bargaining tactic for a new contract....
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Nov 27, 20185 min read


Tribes and Tribulations
The history of Indigenous peoples in the United States is replete with genocide, erasure, and forced assimilation. Oppression of...
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Nov 25, 20185 min read
Is Academic Freedom a Threat to National Security?
Poised on the cutting edge of innovation, American universities continuously challenge the frontiers of knowledge in the pursuit of...
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Nov 25, 20186 min read


Minority Report: How Reflective Teaching Could Improve Minority Student Outcomes
Education represents a path to economic and social opportunity for people across the political spectrum. However, it’s evident that this...
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Jun 12, 20185 min read


Policing Priorities: The Disparity Between Chicago’s Education and Police Funding
Protests in Chicago often center around police misconduct or cuts to education funding. Over the past year, a political battle has...
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Jun 12, 20184 min read


Education Behind Bars: How Education is Failing Incarcerated Youth
Nowhere are the failures of public education and the American criminal justice system more apparent than in the daily lives of...
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Jun 2, 20186 min read


Software Schooling: The Value of Computer Science in Early Education
Squeaky chalkboards and overhead projectors have been classroom staples for decades, but the landscape of public education is quickly...
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May 28, 20185 min read


Model Learning: Closing the Teacher Diversity Gap
In 2014—for the first time ever—pupils of color accounted for more than half of the pupils in public schools. This demographic shift,...
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May 28, 20183 min read


The Fallacies of AP Expansion
At J. Sterling Morton High School East in Cicero, IL–where 92 percent of students are low-income–AP classes are on the rise. In an effort...
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Apr 12, 20185 min read


XXX Ed: Pornography’s Place in Sex Education
From Hollywood to Silicon Valley, Americans have long looked west for guidance on what is new and important. It is unsurprising, then,...
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Dec 13, 20173 min read


Freedom to Choose, Freedom to Lose: Why School Choice Has Little to Offer America’s Students
From picket protests in Alaska to student walkouts in Oregon, protesters expressed fierce resistance to the confirmation of Secretary of...
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Apr 18, 20176 min read


The American Dream: Finding Success Down an Unlikely Path
Dual training, a system in which apprentices split their time between a vocational school and a real-life company work environment, is an...
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Apr 11, 20175 min read


Rhode Island’s Fresh New Outlook: Free College
Recent studies and current mentality shifts show that a high school education is no longer sufficient to prepare Americans for jobs in...
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Feb 27, 20175 min read


Time to Be Heard: Diversifying Social Studies Curricula
Misunderstandings and failures of communication have long plagued social activism and its subsequent role in political discourse....
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Dec 23, 20165 min read


A Small Victory for Diversity: Bilingual Education in California
The week before the US presidential election, then-Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine made history by delivering the first...
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Dec 6, 20164 min read


Beyond the Birds and the Bees: Reshaping Sex Ed in American Schools
While the corny videos you might have watched in high school health class likely seemed humorous at the time, America’s failure to build...
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Nov 28, 20166 min read


Standards Deviation: Discrimination in Charter Schools
While the proposition to legalize marijuana has taken up the most oxygen of Massachusetts’ ballot initiatives, another issue is just as...
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Nov 7, 20165 min read


Egalitarian Education: Possible, But Desirable?
Online education, once championed as a great equalizer, promising unfettered access to a variety of quality course material, seems to...
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Oct 22, 20164 min read


The Mayor’s School for Gifted Youngsters
A cluster of third-graders, clad in khakis and blue polos, sit for lunch facing a world map marked with notecards on dozens of countries,...
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May 2, 20166 min read
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