The secretary of education wants religious schools to flourish at the public system’s expense; and she’s doing it under the cover of the coronavirus crisis.

Teachers routinely go above and beyond the call of duty, but hastily reopening schools during a pandemic puts students, families, and all of us at risk.

Introducing the newest, oldest way to engineer a feckless elite

The divide between who can afford to weather the downturn and who can’t is sharpening. And it’s shaping the recovery response.

Teachers, bus drivers, health aides, and other school workers are organizing against a culture that is trying to feed them into the jaws of the pandemic.

A deep dive into what the research says about the question on every parent’s mind

The mass expansion of public goods is long past due, so pay people to stay home, give them free health care, and stop charging tuition.

“Is there going to be an injunction? Do we have months to years, or are we packing up right now?”

Small, private colleges teach students how to be not only workers but civically engaged citizens of the world.

Millions of students are now learning from home, and pro-charter, anti-teacher forces are trying to seize the moment.

Asian American identity remains deeply fragmented, but politics—and the movement for economic justice—is a growing unifier.

My students are stressed, their families are sick, and teachers like me are trying to hold it all together.

Why Democratic leaders still misunderstand the politics of social class

How private equity baron Stephen Schwarzman has steamrolled our civic culture

The absence of Native perspectives in American history books and classrooms has been remarked on for over 50 years. Will it ever change?

The Democrats want to increase public assistance for struggling parents, but child care should be free for all Americans.

These new buildings only serve to normalize trauma and fear.

The president needs to win Michigan again, but many of his supporters there hate the education secretary.

A critical vote in Baton Rouge this weekend is the latest victory for a nationwide campaign to make schools whiter.

Some 5,000 union workers from the state's university system are scheduled to walk out on Monday.