Education




New Strategies to Suppress Student Activism

Universities have been planning all summer—here are the new rules By Carrie Zaremba University administrators across the United States have declared an indefinite state of emergency on college campuses. Schools are rolling out policies in…


When School Lunch Is Free

By Susan Shain Kurt Marthaller, who oversees school food programs in Butte, Montana, faces many cafeteria-related challenges: children skipping the lunch line because they fear being judged, parents fuming about surprise bills they can’t afford,…



Educate More Girls, Eat Less Meat

Oregon university researchers push novel plan to fight climate change By Gosia Wozniacka A team of scientists led by Oregon State University research­ers has devised a new climate change scenario that offers different thinking on…


Educating for Democracy

By Michael Schwalbe The latest case of right-wing Republican meddling in the curriculum of North Carolina’s public universities comes in the form of a proposed requirement, engineered by the political appointees who constitute the UNC…



Seeing Every Child

Nonprofit provides health care regardless of ability to pay By Tiney Ricciardi When Reid DeSpiegelaere, chief development officer at Every Child Pediatrics, talks about his work’s mission, he points to the name of the nonprofit…