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Education
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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.
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Texas school officials put trans student at center of real-life drama over 'Oklahoma!' production
After Max Hightower scored a role in the seminal American musical, administrators changed their policy on performers’ gender. On Friday, they rescinded that rule, but also announced a truncated production of the show.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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‘They just tried to scare us’: How anti-abortion centers teach sex ed inside public schools
The groups work in dozens of school districts across Texas, but some public health experts say their curricula are misleading and biased.
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Florida and Kentucky are losing educators to extreme anti-LGBTQ+ laws
Strict policies and education laws enacted this year have caused teachers to leave their profession behind — or in some cases, their state.
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The school safety exercises that Sandy Hook parents know make a difference
"Naming and shaming" legislators doesn't work when it comes to gun violence prevention, a Sandy Hook parent group claims. But this does.
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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.