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Texas Teen Courts Keep Youth Out of Prison

El Paso’s Teen Court is a peer-driven, youth-led program that centers the well-being of teenagers, instead of condemning them to the destructive criminal justice system.

Marium Zahra | Oct 16, 2024

Video | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Project 2025 | Progress 2025: Education | Progress 2025

Dr. Ibram X Kendi’s Progress 2025 Vision for Education

In the face of Project 2025’s dystopian vision for education, Ibram X Kendi lays out a progressive alternative for public education in the U.S.

| Oct 9, 2024

Unlearning Queerphobia

Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.

Sara Youngblood Gregory | Oct 2, 2024

Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them

The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.

LJ Slovin | Jun 25, 2024

How Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools

After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.

Malaika Parker | Jun 6, 2024

Swiss Schools’ Surprising Solution to Bullying

Switzerland’s “No Blame” approach eschews punishment, instead focusing on empathy, tolerance, and respect.

Michaela Haas | May 24, 2024

Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria

Displaced by climate change, Fulani children are getting access to education no one in their communities has had before.

Abubakar Muktar Abba | Mar 29, 2024

A photo of student protests, detail on megaphone with the Palestinian flag over it.

The Palestine Exception to Campus Free Speech

Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.

Aila Haqq | Dec 20, 2023

Analysis | Police | Philadelphia

How Philadelphia Disrupted the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.

Amanda NeMoyer, Naomi Goldstein | Dec 5, 2023

Preschool students walking in a parking lot

Tiny Bus, Big Opportunities for Immigrant Kids

El Busesito (“the little bus”) is a preschool on wheels that delivers free early childhood and family engagement programs to Latino immigrant families in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.

Emily Tate Sullivan | Mar 27, 2023

Teachers and Students Respond to Black History Bans

“The revolution is in the classroom.”

Aina Marzia | Feb 15, 2023

Analysis | Immigration | Human rights

A Site That Safeguards Migrants’ Educational Credentials

When people forced to flee their homes then arrive in new countries, their efforts to continue with higher education and careers are often stymied.

Elizabeth Hewitt | Dec 9, 2022

Opinion | Progress 2025 | Workplace | Work | Progress 2025: Education

To Transform Work, Start With Schools

Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.

Ruben Abrahams Brosbe | Aug 15, 2022

Critical Race Theory Opens Up New Opportunities for Student Learning

Amid the heated national controversy about CRT in schools, some Black educators are openly using the framework to help students better understand history and contextualize current events.

Ruth Terry | Mar 8, 2022

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