While the Brown vs. Board of Education case is often celebrated for ordering school desegregation, history shows many black people in the city where the case began opposed integrated schools.
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Research from around the world shows that boosting teacher pay can lead to better student learning, but only if it's accompanied by other things.
Media coverage of the Columbine school shooting that took place in 1999 has ended up becoming a playbook for school shooters in the United States and beyond, an analysis of school shootings reveals.
A presidential candidate wants to use federal funds to boost teacher pay. Is the proposal justified or is it just pandering to teacher unions to get votes? An education scholar provides perspective.
Negative statistics about black students may be prevalent, but they are often out of context, misleading or just plain wrong, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is on a mission to get schools to adopt a "high-quality" curriculum. But the effort will constrain teachers and stifle creativity, an education scholar argues.
Using the term 'at-risk' to describe students from challenging circumstances often creates more problems than it solves, a professor of counseling psychology argues.
A grassroots movement to end racial disparities in schoolhouse discipline is beginning to take root throughout the nation and winning important victories at the local level. Can it sustain the effort?
The Supreme Court long ago rejected the idea of a federal right to education. Can a series of new lawsuits convince the court to change its mind?
Following a fatal beating of a student, Chicago started a Safe Passage program in 2009 to ensure students get to and from school safely. Nine years on, how is it working?
Although many feared that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would destroy public education, a review of the past two years shows that much of her policy agenda has failed.
Conventional wisdom across much of the Western world says there's a strong link between education and upward social mobility. Really?
A former middle school teacher offers a series of tips on how educators can teach young people to engage in more civil discourse.
Things could get worse for special education students if the Trump administration follows through on its plans to give states more leeway when it comes to how they treat special education students.
The story of how Nigeria and Mississippi implemented comprehensive sexual education programs despite local opposition offers important lessons about how to boost adolescent sexual health.
Stereotypes may discourage girls from pursuing STEM careers, but research suggests several ways that parents and teachers can turn things around.
The steep decline in refugee children in US schools will lessen the nation's ability to produce students who possess the skills of global citizenship, a researcher argues.
Will new communications licensing costs make small satellites so expensive that they can't be used for student education?
Yes, money is one big reason. But teachers also just want to be heard like everyone else and are using methods that have been shown to be effective.
A recent cut to federal funding for school safety research could hurt efforts to make schools more secure, a scholar warns.
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Professor of Education, Furman University
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
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Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Economics and Social Statistics, UCL
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Life Sciences Education, University of Birmingham
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Research Economist - Productivity and Innovation, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Director, North Carolina Education Research Data Center, Associate Director, Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University
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Associate Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor in the Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
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Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Policy, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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PhD student studying educational foundations, policy and practice, University of Colorado
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Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Michigan State University
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Professor, Interim Pro Vice Chancellor of the Faculty of Education and Arts; Dean/Head of School of Education, University of Newcastle
