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Analysis and reporting on America's schools, from kindergarten to college.

Should schools lock up kids’ phones?

By Anna North

How the federal government bungled student aid this year

By Fabiola Cineas

Why elite colleges are bringing the SAT back

By Fabiola Cineas

Justice Alito is mad that George W. Bush was too woke

By Ian Millhiser

What to know about the new FAFSA

By Allie Volpe

The Supreme Court weighs whether to end affirmative action at West Point

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court is running away from transgender rights cases

By Ian Millhiser

How plagiarism became the latest weapon in the culture wars

By Constance Grady

Why so many kids are still missing school

By Fabiola Cineas

The culture war came for Claudine Gay — and isn’t done yet

By Fabiola Cineas

What elite universities — and their critics — get wrong about campus antisemitism

By Nicole Narea

The Israel-Hamas war reveals how colleges lost their way on free speech

By Fabiola Cineas

What a striking new study of death in America misses

By Dylan Matthews

Is public school as we know it ending?

By Rachel M. Cohen

The Asian penalty in college admissions is still here — even without affirmative action

By Fabiola Cineas

How to take advantage of Biden’s new student loan relief plan

By Nicole Narea

Florida’s restrictive sex ed rules are causing back-to-school mayhem

By Fabiola Cineas

The new “science of reading” movement, explained

By Rachel M. Cohen

DeSantis is still standing by Florida’s revisionist Black history

By Fabiola Cineas

Is it defamation to point out scientific research fraud?

By Kelsey Piper

The White House should admit that student debt forgiveness isn’t happening

By Kevin Carey

Affirmative action for white college applicants is still here

By Fabiola Cineas

How the Supreme Court put itself in charge of the executive branch

By Ian Millhiser

Teachers are striking for more than just pay raises

By Courtney E. Martin

Biden’s new plan to forgive $39 billion in student loans, explained

By Nicole Narea

The difficult reality of restarting student loan payments, in 5 charts

By Nicole Narea

The Supreme Court’s lawless, completely partisan student loans decision, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action in colleges, explained

By Fabiola Cineas and Ian Millhiser

Can college diversity survive the end of affirmative action?

By Kevin Carey

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The Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action

By Vox Staff

The “anti-intellectual attack” on higher ed will take years to undo

By Fabiola Cineas

A guide to Ron DeSantis’s most extreme policies in Florida

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou

The latest book ban target: Amanda Gorman’s poem from the Biden inauguration

By Li Zhou

The Republican plan to take over school boards may be backfiring

By Nicole Narea

An economist spent decades arguing money wouldn’t help schools. His new paper finds it usually does.

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat

The rising Republican movement to defund public libraries

By Fabiola Cineas

The SATs are: a) dying; b) already dead; c) alive and well; d) here forever

By Kevin Carey

Florida is slimming down its plan to take on “woke” colleges — but not by much

By Fabiola Cineas

Ron DeSantis’s war on “woke” in Florida schools, explained

By Fabiola Cineas

Why we should run elite college admissions like a lottery

By Bryan Walsh

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