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No Poets Left Behind
K-12 students are adapting to completing their curriculum from their bedrooms against the backdrop of the snowballing social, physical,...
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Nov 17, 20206 min read


An ‘F’ for College Admissions
The American college application system is fundamentally broken. For months, and sometimes even years, applicants labor over strategies,...
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Nov 13, 20206 min read


BPR Interviews: Bushra Amiwala on Embracing Tech and Rejecting PACs
Bushra Amiwala currently serves on the Skokie School District 73.5 Board of Education. At 22 years old, she is the youngest Muslim...
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Jul 20, 202010 min read


Ending Federal Funding for Abstinence-Only Education
The quality, content, and mere presence of sex-education varies wildly across the United States. Only 29 states and the District of...
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May 22, 20206 min read


The Standards of Play: The Need for Regulation in Prekindergarten
Publicly funded prekindergarten is one of the few issues in our politically divided climate that has garnered bipartisan support. In...
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Apr 18, 20205 min read


Vouching Against School Vouchers
In today’s divisive sociopolitical climate, the subsidization of private education in the United States has become yet another polarized,...
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Mar 1, 20205 min read


All-Girl Schools: A Solution to Representation in STEM
Women now comprise a larger portion of college students than men, in part a reflection of their superior high-school grades. Yet, as one...
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Apr 29, 20194 min read


Equality is Not a Zero Sum Game
When New York City’s highly selective public schools released their admissions breakdown for the incoming freshman class in March,...
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Apr 22, 20194 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


Factory to Table
Fifty years ago, when Carlos Monteiro began his career as a pediatrician in the sprawling slums of São Paulo, his patients were starving....
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Nov 25, 20185 min read


(E)Quality Education: The Case for Darija in Moroccan Public Schools
During the 2017-18 school year, Morocco implemented a new education strategy, the latest in a string of unsuccessful reform attempts...
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Nov 12, 20186 min read


A “Bottom-Up” Approach To Foreign Aid
The largest challenge for the United States to overcome in the international sphere is not the lack of influence, but rather the...
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Oct 18, 20185 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


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


Boom & Bust: The Laotian Malaria Epidemic in an Economic Context
Since the turn of the century, Lao PDR has been on a bullet train to graduate from its “Least Developed Country Status” by 2020....
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Dec 9, 20176 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


Written by the Winners: U.S. High School History Curricula and Declining Civic Life
In the fall of 2014, hundreds of high school students in Jefferson County, Colorado, walked out of class to protest their newly elected...
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Apr 11, 20176 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
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