Education

Trump's Budget Proposal Threatens Funding For Major After-School Program

8:32am May 02, 2017

by Pam Fessler

President Trump's budget would eliminate all funding for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, after-school programs for 1.8 million mostly poor children.

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Harvard Business School Moves To Study More Diverse Cases

6:23am May 02, 2017

by Zeninjor Enwemeka

Harvard produces case studies used by business students across the country. Until now, more of those cases involved white business leaders. The school is changing that.

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4 Things We Don't Know About AP Tests

4:53pm May 01, 2017

by Anya Kamenetz

Nearly 3 million students take their Advanced Placement exams in the coming weeks. There's very little independent research on the benefits of these courses.

President Trump ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to look into whether the federal government has usurped state and local control of education.

Trump On Education Department: 'Reverse This Federal Power Grab'

6:05am April 29, 2017

Our weekly education news roundup: State officials criticize DeVos on student loan protections; and typos torpedo some grant applications for low-income students.

Georgetown University To Offer Slave Descendants Preferential Admissions

4:31pm April 28, 2017

by Noel King

When Georgetown University announced they were going to try to make reparations to descendants of slaves held by the university more than a century ago, it raised tough questions for the families who stand to receive the reparations. Georgetown is offering preferential admissions to descendants, but one family with two students applying, have another idea.

Interdisciplinary artist and TED Fellow, Damon Davis.

At TED This Week, Two Speakers Got To The Root Of Things

3:46pm April 28, 2017

by Nina Gregory

At the TED Conference in Vancouver this week, two Fellows, Devita Davison and Damon Davis talked about putting ideas to work to invigorate marginalized communities from within.

Portrait of Barbare Jorjadze in the Georgian National Library's reading room named after her.

19th Century Princess And Cookbook Author Was Also Georgia's First Feminist

1:38pm April 28, 2017

by Giorgi Lomsadze

Princess Barbare Jorjadze is renowned for her cookbook. But she spent most of her life writing letters, poems and essays, to fight for a greater public role for Georgian women.

A Path Out Of Poverty: Career Training + Quality Pre K

12:15pm April 28, 2017

by Eric Westervelt

A new study on an innovative program in Tulsa, Okla., that links quality Head Start services with job training and parental support shows it's improving the lives of both mothers and their children.

Wes Moore speaks at the Robin Hood Veterans Summit at Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on May 7, 2012 in New York City.

This Week In Race: Fox Sued, Schools Resegregate, Shea Moisture Gets Thirsty

9:05am April 28, 2017

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A racial discrimination suit is filed against Fox. Is an Alabama school district getting around integration? Shea Moisture apologizes for a commercial. And, there's a new philanthropist in town.

Education

Who Gains And Who's Left Out Of Georgetown's Reparations Plan

5:04am April 28, 2017

by Noel King

Georgetown University says it will try to atone to the descendants of slaves sold more than a century ago. One concrete step is "preferential admissions" for descendants, but it doesn't help everyone.