K-12 Education

A girl gestures as she takes part in a demonstration as part of a global day of action on climate change at the school in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, September 25, 2020. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham

Girls’ education is key to climate change solutions

Christina Kwauk, Lucia Fry, Raju Kumar Narzary, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 30, 2021

Benjamin Banneker Senior High School (Nyttend, Wikimedia Commons)

What online forum discussions reveal about segregation in DC public schools

Vanessa Williamson and Fred Dews

Friday, April 9, 2021

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant prepares her classroom, from where she will begin the new school year teaching classes virtually because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Why teacher diversity benefits students of color

Michael Hansen and Fred Dews

Friday, April 2, 2021

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant and paraprofessional Emily Lichtenstein (L) meet their incoming students and parents remotely before the first day of classes in the new school year at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. Bryant will begin the school year teaching classes virtually from her classroom because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Playful learning: A new path to education reform

Helen Shwe Hadani, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 4, 2020

children in classroom wearing masks

Big ideas to redesign K-12 for the automation age

Hannah Van Drie, Ember Smith, and Marcus Casey

Monday, October 12, 2020

A view of an empty classroom at a school, as Lebanon's education system is in limbo with multiple challenges, in Beirut, Lebanon, June 8, 2020. Picture taken June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Can impact bonds help solve the global education crisis?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Jaime Saavedra, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 26, 2020

Students board their school bus in a sub-zero temperature in Minneapolis, January 8, 2014. A deadly blast of arctic air shattered decades-old temperature records as it enveloped the eastern United States on Tuesday, snarling air, road and rail travel, driving energy prices higher and overwhelming shelters for homeless people. According to AccuWeather.com, the extreme cold won't last much longer. The frigid air and "polar vortex" that affected about 240 million people in the United States and southern Canada will depart during the second half of this week, and a far-reaching January thaw will begin, according to AccuWeather.com. REUTERS/Eric Miller (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION) - GM1EA190G4I01

What are charter schools and do they deliver?

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Students disembark from a school bus outside The Ivy Apartments, where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas October 1, 2014. As many as 80 people were in contact with the Dallas Ebola patient at some point, Texas health officials told NBC, marking a significant jump from the 18 people authorities had said may have been exposed to the deadly virus. Additionally, four members of the patient's family have been ordered to stay home as a precaution even though they are not showing symptoms, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in a statement. Picture taken October 1, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Stone

What does the debate over school segregation reveal about the Democratic primary field?

Friday, July 5, 2019

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in Washington, D.C.

A progress report on Betsy DeVos’ education agenda

Elizabeth Mann Levesque and Fred Dews

Friday, August 24, 2018

3rd grade class from the W.R. O'Dell Elementary School recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

Grading America’s civics education

Michael Hansen and Fred Dews

Friday, July 6, 2018