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Education

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

Is public school as we know it ending?

By Rachel M. Cohen September 5

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

By Fabiola Cineas August 24

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

By Nicole Narea August 23

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

By Fabiola Cineas August 19

The new “science of reading” movement, explained

By Rachel M. Cohen August 15

DeSantis is still standing by Florida’s revisionist Black history

By Fabiola Cineas August 10

Is it defamation to point out scientific research fraud?

By Kelsey Piper August 9

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

By Kevin Carey August 7

Affirmative action for white college applicants is still here

By Fabiola Cineas July 25

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

By Ian Millhiser July 17

Teachers are striking for more than just pay raises

By Courtney E. Martin July 16

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

By Nicole Narea July 14

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

By Nicole Narea June 30

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

By Ian Millhiser June 30

The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action in colleges, explained

By Fabiola Cineas and Ian Millhiser June 29

Can college diversity survive the end of affirmative action?

By Kevin Carey June 29

9 Updates

The Supreme Court effectively ends affirmative action

By Vox Staff June 29

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

By Fabiola Cineas June 17

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

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou May 25

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

By Li Zhou May 24

The Republican plan to take over school boards may be backfiring

By Nicole Narea May 17

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

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat May 16

The rising Republican movement to defund public libraries

By Fabiola Cineas May 8

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

By Kevin Carey May 2

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

By Fabiola Cineas April 21

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

By Fabiola Cineas April 20

Why we should run elite college admissions like a lottery

By Bryan Walsh April 19

The massive Los Angeles public school worker strike, explained

By Nicole Narea March 21

A new Supreme Court case could be the most important transgender rights decision ever

By Ian Millhiser March 14

America’s school lunch crisis

By Anna North March 2

You probably won’t get any student loan relief, thanks to a GOP-controlled Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser February 28

Progress Report: America’s Schools

By Vox Staff February 23

Nobody knows what the point of homework is

By Jacob Sweet February 23

The racist idea that changed American education

By Matt Barnum, Chalkbeat February 22

Conservatives’ war on emotions in the classroom

By Fabiola Cineas February 22

America’s after-school afterthought

By Rachel M. Cohen February 21

The other long Covid: The damage done to a generation of schoolchildren

By Bryan Walsh February 21

This Penn professor has been offending minorities for years. Will tenure save her?

By Jack Meserve February 16

The Supreme Court showdown over Biden’s student debt relief program, explained

By Ian Millhiser February 13

The controversy over AP African American studies, explained

By Fabiola Cineas February 9

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