Education

Education

Campaign Urges Black Men To Focus More On Their Children's Education

3:03pm September 16, 2015

by Patrick Madden

The group called Million Father March is trying to get African-American fathers more engaged in their children's education. That includes urging them to walk their kids to school.

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Teachers walk the picket line outside Garfield High School in Seattle, Wash., last week. They're going back to work on the strength of a tentative contract agreement.

Seattle Teachers Going Back To School After Tentative Contract Deal Is Reached

11:13pm September 15, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Union leaders have voted to suspend their strike, which began last week. The full membership will vote on the deal on Sunday. The dispute has kept 53,000 students from starting their school year.

Seattle Teachers Reach Tentative Agreement With District After Strike

9:27pm September 15, 2015

by Kyle Stokes

After nearly a week of marching for better pay and more say in how students are evaluated, Seattle teachers reached a tentative contract agreement with the school district Tuesday.

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Inmates talk with professors about how to teach classes in the Inside-Out program, where half the students are prisoners and half are traditional college students.

Inside-Out: Where Campus Life Meets Prison Life

7:51pm September 15, 2015

by Gabrielle Emanuel

Two decades ago, a prisoner serving a life sentence had an idea of a college course. This year, over 100 universities and colleges will be offering a class just like the one he envisioned.

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Alabama Senate Approves Shifting $100 Million Away From Schools

11:08am September 15, 2015

by Bill Chappell

A critic of the move, which is not yet final, said his colleagues in the Legislature had decided to "rob children" to help cover a budget deficit instead of finding the money elsewhere.

The Surgeon Who Became An Activist For Baby Talk

9:05am September 15, 2015

by Cory Turner

The new book by surgeon Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building A Child's Brain, explores the importance of constantly talking to our kids, even when they're too young to talk back.

Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club Considers Adding 1st Female Performers

7:43pm September 14, 2015

by Craig LeMoult

Women auditioned for the Harvard musical theater group, Hasty Pudding, this weekend, which has never had a female member in the troop.

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President Obama's New 'College Scorecard' Is A Torrent Of Data

2:48pm September 14, 2015

by Cory Turner

The Obama administration unveiled its long-awaited College Scorecard on Saturday. It aims to help prospective students decide what school best fits their needs.

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So Many Sports, So Little Time: Texas High School Athletes Opt Out Of Football

11:31am September 14, 2015

by Wade Goodwyn

In Texas, fewer high school boys are playing football. And while there may be some concern about head injuries, one young athlete says the trend has more to do with demands on his time.

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It's no accident that neighborhood schools are battlegrounds for so many of the pitched battles over race and place in America.

What We Lose When A Neighborhood School Goes Away

11:29am September 14, 2015

by Gene Demby

The fight over a closure of a struggling public high school in Chicago raises questions about what's disrupted and upended when a community loses one of its central institutions.