January is National Mentoring Month. A retired professor at UC San Diego has paired emeriti professors with first-generation students to great effect.
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What are your kids reading in the new year? What kids read has a strong impact on their perceptions of reality.
The year 2015 escalated many of the tensions that have existed on university and college campuses for a long time. It will be remembered as the year of student activism.
Do expectations about the “right” parent involvement take into account America’s large diversity?
Want to build resilience in children? Tell them family stories of courage.
Many schools claim that when students attend in uniforms, it improves discipline, and leads to academic gains. But does it?
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is replacing No Child Left Behind (NCLB). How much of an improvement is it over the earlier law?
Scholars argue that the affirmative action case could have consequences for the educational success of students of color.
As the affirmative action case comes up before the US Supreme Court again, the question being asked is how much diversity is enough?
Limiting the use of race in higher education admissions policies for institutions can have harmful consequences for the diversity of the student body.
Research shows that preschool children take characters from popular television shows and movies and blend them together to create complex oral stories.
Many families move over the course of their children’s lifetimes for a multitude of reasons. But what is the impact on the education of children when their families move?
The affordability of college has been at the forefront of the presidential campaign, but the real problem is that we’re too educated for the jobs available.
Two scholars discuss the joys of writing for a lay audience. So why aren’t more academics writing for the public?
November 29 marks the 40th anniversary of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA). Prior to the law, some states excluded the “crippled” from public education.
At a time when America feels divided and families face rifts, the history of Thanksgiving offers lessons in unity, generosity and faith.
American textbooks confine the history of indigenous peoples to a distant past.
Should history textbooks be revised to include Native American voices?
Research indicates that only 46% of students believe Muslims are accepted on campus. But the same research points to ways to change how Muslims are perceived by Americans generally.
A former activist turned professor says previous student movements may have opened the door for people of color to have greater opportunity but fell short of changing the power structure.
Homeschooling regulations vary from state to state. And loopholes in these regulations could excuse parents from actually reporting the results.
The bathroom has become a battleground for transgender rights — and rightfully so. Research shows that bathroom restrictions threaten the health and safety of the transgender community.
When your kids (or colleagues) misbehave, does anyone give you five options, one of which is uniquely correct, to solve the problem? So, why do we continue to test students in this way?
Textbook language can influence thinking. So, what do some textbooks say on issues of race?
Here’s what black student activists were asking for 50 years ago. So, what changed?
I taught at Mizzou from 1996 to 2008. Here’s why the events don’t surprise me.