--- description: How can America’s schools tackle their equity problem, researchers are learning from conch shells to improve body armor and more. title: How Schools Can Tackle Their Equity Problem image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Five Best Ideas](/tag/five-best-ideas/) ## Five Best Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How Schools Can Tackle Their Equity Problem by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2017 4:00 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 1, 2017 4:00 PM CUT **1\.** [**How can America’s schools tackle their equity problem?**](http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/05/31/our-schools-have-an-equity-problem-what.html "undefined") By Danielle Gonzales and Ross Wiener in _Education Week_ **2\.** [**Researchers are taking a lesson from impact-resistant conch shells to improve body armor.**](https://news.mit.edu/2017/conch-shells-better-helmets-body-armor-0526 "undefined") By David L. Chandler at _MIT News_ **3\.** [**To really guard against hackers, we should maintain our analog infrastructure.**](https://www.mitre.org/capabilities/cybersecurity/overview/cybersecurity-blog/backward-is-forward-analog-failover "undefined") By Emily Frye and Quentin Hodgson at _Mitre Corporation_ **4\.** [**Could watching too much news make you more racist?**](http://www.ozy.com/acumen/how-being-a-news-junkie-makes-you-racist/78611 "undefined") By James Watkins in _Ozy_ **5\.** [**Democratic presidential hopefuls should ignore Iowa and New Hampshire, and look to the deep south.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-31/for-democratic-hopefuls-the-deep-south-is-a-winner "undefined") By Conor Sen in _Bloomberg View_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4801133/how-schools-can-tackle-their-equity-problem/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4801133/how-schools-can-tackle-their-equity-problem/"},"headline":"How Schools Can Tackle Their Equity Problem","datePublished":"2017-06-01T16:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:47.307Z","description":"Here are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4801133/how-schools-can-tackle-their-equity-problem/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","politics","Education","Media","Hacking","health"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4801133/how-schools-can-tackle-their-equity-problem/","name":"How Schools Can Tackle Their Equity Problem"}}]}] ```