Teaching the Chinese Exclusion Act won't end anti-Asian bias

California students will learn more about Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in hopes of preventing racism and hate,...

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Teaching the Chinese Exclusion Act won't end anti-Asian bias

California students will learn more about Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in hopes of preventing racism and hate,...

Joanne Jacobs

'School math' is boring: Students want 'real math'

"Math is important, but we’re being taught the wrong kind of math," say high school students in a YouthTruth survey. While 57 percent...

Joanne Jacobs

NY high school becomes storm shelter for migrants

Students at Brooklyn's James Madison High School "were kicked out of the classroom" today "to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants" from a...

Joanne Jacobs

Truancy is the 'new normal' -- and a growing business

Tracking down absent students and persuading their parents to get them to school every day is a booming business, writes Alex MacGillis...

Joanne Jacobs

To gain public trust, make college admissions less 'murky'

College admissions are "murky," and getting murkier, writes Peter Arcidiacono, a Duke economics professor, on Persuasion. "Test-optional"...

Joanne Jacobs

Why Americans don't trust higher ed: It's the lying and the whining

Only 36 percent of Americans expressed "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of trust in higher education in a 2023 Gallup survey, down from 57...

Joanne Jacobs

SAT/ACT scores predict success, open doors for 'diverse' students

Want equity? Require college applicants to submit SAT or ACT scores, writes David Leonhardt in the New York Times. The progressives' "war...