Author
Nadra Nittle
Nadra Nittle is our education reporter. She was previously a senior reporter for Civil Eats and a staff reporter for Vox Media and the Long Beach Press-Telegram, where she covered K-12 education. She has a master’s degree in teaching, and her writing has also appeared in publications including The Guardian, Business Insider, The Atlantic, BBC News, NBC News and EdSource.
The Latest
-
Activists in California school district turn in enough signatures to seek recall race against far-right president
Joseph Komrosky leads the Temecula, California, school board that’s faced national scrutiny for banning critical race theory, endorsing book banning and firing the woman superintendent.
-
Three school board members moved this California district to the far right. Women lead the effort to recall them.
The Temecula Valley Unified School District’s conservative majority has ousted its woman superintendent, banned critical race theory and passed a policy to “out” LGBTQ+ students to their parents.
-
The Spelman College community has stood in solidarity with Palestinians for years
Students and faculty at the historically Black women's college feel a connection to the racial, economic and gender injustices they say Palestinians face.
-
New book explores the influences behind the life and work of bell hooks
An excerpt from ‘bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision’ by The 19th’s Nadra Nittle examines the late feminist's views on the role of religion in women’s liberation.
-
The Hoodwitch's Bri Luna — one of the nation’s most influential witches — releases first book for Halloween
Her beautifully crafted debut, “Blood Sex Magic,” is part memoir and part grimoire, with cultural criticism, personal observations — and spells.
-
'They're just not enough': Students push to improve sexual assault prevention trainings for college men
A first-of-its-kind study from It’s On Us found that just 45 percent of college men receive sexual assault prevention training.
-
How a university less than a mile from the Mexican border is helping Latinx students thrive
University of Texas at El Paso President Heather Wilson says anti-DEI legislation in Texas won’t affect the institution's efforts to serve a student population that's 84 percent Latinx.
-
Book bans in schools jumped 33 percent last year
Censorship, educational intimidation bills and gag orders are all chilling the free exchange of ideas in classrooms, advocates say.
-
LGBTQ+ students on what they’ve learned — and what they can teach schools — about supporting queer kids
The students from Texas, California and Alabama have served as Youth Voices ambassadors for It Gets Better, a nonprofit that works toward the empowerment of LGBTQ+ youth worldwide.
-
U.S. history classes are mostly about men. Two teachers are looking to change that.
They’re petitioning the College Board to offer an AP U.S. Women’s History course for the first time.