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Byline: Dana Goldstein Oklahoma and Texas are among more than 20 states that have passed laws since 2021 seeking to control how race, gender and American history are discussed in [...]

Byline: Corina Knoll, Elizabeth Dias, Orlando Mayorquín and Dana Goldstein In the first election after the pandemic, Americans are heading to the polls full of emotions. When Americans voted in [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed. An A.I. platform named Ed [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Audra Melton Parents, desperate for help, are turning to private schools with a half-dozen or so students. And they are getting a financial boost from taxpayers. [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Marc Tracy Students are bringing up antisemitic tropes and asking survivors and docents: What is Palestine? Is there a genocide in Gaza? At a Holocaust museum [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein With his latest, and last, book, the 87-year-old writer refuses false optimism. There are certain motifs in Jonathan Kozol's half-century of writing about America's failure to adequately [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein The state's high school students will be required to take the subject, but some object to how the discipline addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. California has grand ambitions [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Some conservative thinkers are pushing Republicans to move on from Reagan-era family policy and send cash to families. A few lawmakers are listening. Sending cash to parents, [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Some high-end chains are surprisingly profitable, and they are trying to shape child care policy in Washington. The prices can rival college tuition: Bright Horizons charges up [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Robert Gebeloff Jay Miles has lived his 52 years without marriage or children, which has suited his creative ambitions as a videographer in Connecticut and, he [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein After Roe, groups are seeking to expand safe haven laws, which allow women to surrender babies with minimal interference. But these laws pose their own problems. The [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Ava Sasani One 10-year-old became the focus of debate, but more than 1,000 girls under 15 seek abortions each year. 'How are we going to help [...]

Byline: Mike Baker and Dana Goldstein Uvalde officials had trained to confront gunmen and, like other schools around the country, had invested in security. In August 2020, law enforcement officers [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein The fallout from the pandemic is just being felt. 'We're in new territory,' educators say. BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - The kindergarten crisis of last year, when millions of [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Federal stimulus dollars are dedicated to helping students recover from virtual schooling. Many districts are spending some of that money on virtual tutoring. When Education Secretary Miguel [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Oxford High School held repeated trainings on how to handle a gunman in school. But some critics are questioning their purpose. To hear more audio stories from [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Jacey Fortin Despite some turmoil, a vast majority of students have been in classrooms full-time and mostly uninterrupted this fall. Now, educators debate what's next. When [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein During the Delta surge, British schools emphasized other safety measures: quarantining and regular testing for the virus. From late spring into early summer, Britain's elementary and secondary [...]

Byline: Trip Gabriel and Dana Goldstein In a culture-war brawl that has spilled into the country's educational system, Republicans at the local, state and national levels are trying to block [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro Unions are threatening to strike if classrooms reopen, but are also pushing to limit live remote teaching. Their demands will shape pandemic education. As [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein and Eliza Shapiro Teachers say crucial questions about how schools will stay clean, keep students physically distanced and prevent further spread of the virus have not been [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein School resource officers were supposed to prevent mass shootings and juvenile crime. But some schools are eliminating them amid a clamor from students after George Floyd's death. [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein COLUMBIA, Md. - The planned community of Columbia, southwest of Baltimore, has prided itself on its ethos of inclusion ever since it was founded more than half [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Discuss a recent instance of police brutality in your community. Read op-eds arguing for and against legal status for unauthorized immigrants. Compare and contrast border conditions in [...]

Byline: Dana Goldstein Driven by a tech-industry vision of rural economic revival, Wyoming is requiring all of its K-12 public schools to offer computer science. SHERIDAN, Wyo. - The soldiers [...]

Byline: DANA GOLDSTEIN and MANNY FERNANDEZ Felicia Baez teaches English as a second language at a shelter in South Florida where anywhere from 30 to 100 migrant children in federal [...]

Byline: DANA GOLDSTEIN In the days after a school shooting, like the one last Friday in Santa Fe, Tex., parents hug their children tighter in the morning, wondering if such [...]