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Education
A New Report Finds That 45 States Are 'Failing' to Teach Students About the Period That Shaped Race Relations After the Civil War
By Olivia B. Waxman
Why So Many Black Teachers Are Leaving the Classroom
By Sarah Carr/The Hechinger Report
Cheugy, Murraya and Critical Race Theory: The Words That Defined 2021
By Cady Lang
The Best Holiday Gifts to Give Teachers This Year
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SCOTUS Hears Major Religious Freedom Case on Maine Schools
Amy and David Carson were high school sweethearts. They met at Bangor Christian Schools, a private religious K-12 school in Bangor, Maine, when they were in their early teens. Their siblings attended the school. Family...
By Madeleine Carlisle
December 6, 2021
Inside Mystic Valley and the Debate Over America's Classroom
Eric Henry couldn’t believe what the 5th-graders at his triplets’ school were being assigned to read. On Jan. 31, the electrical engineer and Navy veteran fired off an email to a group of fellow parents...
By Molly Ball/Malden, Mass.
November 22, 2021
How Schools Are Struggling With a Substitute Teacher Shortage
'It's an all-hands-on-deck process' says a school superintendent who had to step in to teach gym recently
By Katie Reilly
November 22, 2021
Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
On Nov. 8, two members of a Virginia school board called for a book burning. During a board meeting that evening, the Spotsylvania County Public School Board unanimously ordered its school libraries to begin removing...
By Olivia B. Waxman
November 15, 2021
Why Schools Are Paying Kids to Get Vaccinated
From New York to Los Angeles, schools are rewarding kids as young as 5 with $100 gift cards and other rewards if they get COVID-19 vaccines
By Katie Reilly
November 5, 2021
Inside Amherst College's Decision to End Legacy Admissions
Evidence from other colleges suggests that Amherst College could see more low-income and first-generation students as it ends legacy admissions
By Katie Reilly
October 22, 2021
Critics Say Academic Freedom Is at Risk Under New Tenure Rules
The revisions, which could make it easier to fire faculty who fall short in performance reviews, come at a time of heightened tensions on college campuses over what professors should — and should not—be allowed to teach.
By Katie Reilly
October 21, 2021
Why a Beer Maker Is at the Center of a School Mask Dispute
The owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company is using money from the super PAC he launched to fund lawsuits that would force Wisconsin schools to require masks in class
By Katie Reilly
October 14, 2021
The DOJ Is Getting Involved as Educators Face Violent Threats
The Justice Department move comes amid fierce protests over school mask mandates and social justice issues
By Katie Reilly
October 6, 2021
School Mask Mandates Are Going to Court
A spate of lawsuits marks the latest phase of the debate over face masks
By Katie Reilly
October 1, 2021
Jamey Rodemeyer's Parents Reflect a Decade After His Death
TIME spoke with the Rodemeyers ahead of the ten year anniversary of Jamey’s death about their son’s life and legacy, and the progress yet to be made.
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 17, 2021
A Tribute to Classroom Heroes
"I have never been prouder to be a teacher... Thank you for being the heroes we needed," First Lady Dr. Jill Biden writes
By Dr. Jill Biden
September 2, 2021
Meet the Educators Who Saved A Pandemic School Year
29 stories of teachers, bus drivers and others who went above and beyond
By Jasmine Aguilera
September 2, 2021
Parents Had Dreamed of a Smooth Return to School This Fall. This Is the Nightmare We're Facing Instead
Across the U.S. children are heading back to school, despite spiking COVID-19 cases. The emergence of the more contagious Delta variant as the most prominent virus strain in the country is causing concern for parents....
By Aubrey Hirsch
August 24, 2021
Why National Teachers Unions Won’t Require Vaccine Mandates
This fall, as many schools across the country are planning to reopen for full in-person learning, parents and educators are bracing for the third straight school year to be disrupted by COVID-19. And yet, according...
By Charlotte Alter
August 23, 2021
Why I'm Mandating that Austin Texas School Must Be Masked
As the Superintendent of Austin, TX, schools I have mandated that our kids must be masked when they start school on Tuesday. Requiring masks is not and never has been about defying the Governor. This...
By Stephanie Elizalde
August 15, 2021
Universities Can Build a More Resilient Future Post-Pandemic
New technologies help us expand access and blend the best of the physical and virtual worlds, the Yale President says
By Peter Salovey
August 11, 2021
The Delta Variant Is Upending Back-to-School Plans
'We are in an eerily similar situation as we were 12 months ago'
By Katie Reilly
August 5, 2021
Summer Tutoring Is Not the Solution to a Lost Year of School
Summer tutoring has become the rallying cry by politicians and pundits as a way to address the learning loss from months of remote and hybrid learning. A frightening number of students did not show up...
By Pawan Dhingra
July 28, 2021
'The Myth Itself Becomes a Stand-in.' What Can the Alamo's History Teach Us About Teaching History?
Less than a month after Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill he described as "a strong move to abolish critical race theory in Texas"—which educators worry will limit how they can talk...
By Olivia B. Waxman
July 13, 2021
America's Racial Awakening Forces Virginia Military Institute To Confront Its Past—And Future
It was a cold morning last December when they finally took Stonewall Jackson down. No ceremony was held, no protesters gathered; snowflakes swirled in the air. A crane silently hoisted the enormous bronze Confederate general...
By Molly Ball/Lexington, Va.
May 27, 2021
Higher Education Has a Tax Problem
On March 30, 2020, toward the beginning of the global COVID-19 pandemic, New Haven citizens stormed the city’s Zoom budget meeting to vent their outrage at Yale University’s continued strain on city finances. Residents specifically...
By Davarian L. Baldwin
April 7, 2021
For Class of 2021, an 'Asterisk on the Future'
The pandemic has altered life plans for many high school seniors, and counselors have had a close-up view of their anxiety
By Katie Reilly
April 1, 2021
Why Is It So Hard to Get Student Loan Debt Erased?
The economy wins when student loans are erased, but borrowers often struggle to access relief programs
By Alana Semuels
April 1, 2021
Applying to College Was Hard. COVID-19 Made It Impossible
The first sign that Twyla Joseph’s college application process was not going to go as planned came on March 13, 2020, when, a day before her scheduled SAT, she learned the test had been canceled....
By Katie Reilly
March 31, 2021
Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From U.S. Classrooms
Educators tell TIME that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 30, 2021
America’s Reckoning on Race Comes to High School Speech and Debate
A group of Brooklyn students are on the vanguard of change in the once-staid world of competitive oratory—even if not everyone wants to hear what they have to say
By Brian Seto McGrath
December 25, 2020
Biden Picks Former Teacher for Education Secretary
If confirmed as Education Secretary, Miguel Cardona will face pressure to fix schooling upended by COVID-19 and to roll back some of Betsy DeVos's policies
By Katie Reilly
December 22, 2020
How Schools Are Facing the Election Aftermath
Educators face the challenge of trying to teach civics and explain the unprecedented to students
By Katie Reilly
November 3, 2020
An Overlooked Milestone in the History of School Integration
Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story
By Olivia B. Waxman
September 22, 2020
How U.S. History Is Taught Has Always Been Political
"Is the point of history class to introduce young Americans to their heritage of heroes, the glories of American history?"
By Olivia B. Waxman
September 16, 2020
Native Americans Were Long Left Out of the Mayflower Story
Historians are now working to make sure the impact on the Wampanoag isn't written out of the story of the Mayflower's journey
By Suyin Haynes
September 16, 2020
The History Behind California's Battle Over Ethnic Studies
A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom
By Iris Kim
September 15, 2020
As Colleges Open During a Pandemic, Student Life Remains Closed
The typically bustling main campus of Pennsylvania State University is quieter than normal. Many students are tuning in to classes online from their dorm rooms. A town ban on gatherings of more than 10 people...
By Katie Reilly
September 10, 2020
Danielle Geathers: How Advocating for Change Helped Me Become the First Black Woman Student Body President at MIT
I was 12 years old when Trayvon Martin was murdered, and 13 when his murderer was acquitted. While my predominantly Black congregational church was wrought by grief and mourning, my predominantly white private school was...
By Danielle Geathers
August 20, 2020
DOJ Accuses Yale of Racial Discrimination
Yale illegally discriminates against Asian Americans and White applicants in undergraduate admissions, the Justice Department said
By Patricia Hurtado and David Yaffe-Bellany / Bloomberg
August 14, 2020
'Sending Teachers and Students Into a House Fire With a Squirt Gun'
'We're sending teachers and students into a house fire with a squirt gun'
By Madeleine Carlisle
July 23, 2020
Education May Become the Pandemic’s Latest Casualty
Children tumble off a yellow school bus, where every other seat is marked with caution tape. Wearing whimsical masks—one has whiskers, another rhinestones—they wait to get their temperatures checked before filing into the one-story school...
By Katie Reilly/Middletown, Conn.
July 23, 2020
Judge Sends Black Teen to Juvenile Detention Over Online Schoolwork
The judge's ruling came despite an executive order issued in March from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
By Mahita Gajanan
July 15, 2020
COVID-19 Cases at Frat Houses Are a Warning
"College, if we do bring people back in person, is not going to look the same as it has in the past"
By Katie Reilly
July 13, 2020
DeVos Doubles Down on Pushing Schools to Reopen
The CDC guidelines are "meant to be flexible and meant to be applied as appropriate for the situation," DeVos said
By Sanya Mansoor
July 12, 2020
With No End in Sight to the Coronavirus, Some Teachers Are Retiring Rather Than Going Back to School
Teachers say they're concerned about staying safe in their classrooms, as President Trump demands that schools reopen
By Katie Reilly
July 8, 2020
Robert F. Smith Launches Initiative to Ease Student Debt
Smith talked of easing the student loan burden at historically Black colleges and universities during Tuesday's TIME100 Talks
By Katie Reilly
June 23, 2020
For the Class of 2020, Graduation Moves Online
"Let’s give it up to the class of 2020. May we never have to worry about toilet paper again."
By Katie Reilly
May 14, 2020
Draw with Us!
Do your kids love to draw? Have them join the journey as Drew, creative director of TIME for Kids, and his sidekick Rosie explore their imaginations and dream up fun things to sketch each week.
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