Organizers in Little Rock wrote to us about the district administration's plan to close “three to four more of our beloved public schools,” and asked, more or less: what is going on here? So we record...

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We got a request to look into DeKalb County School District in Georgia, a county-wide system of about 92,000 students just east of Atlanta, and it is, to use the technical term, the bonkersest one we’...

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The new president, Celeste Ramirez, takes a wrecking ball to top execs at the multibillion- dollar agency responsible for building and upgrading classrooms.

French students’ demonstrations are in the news without analysis of why they matter to us

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A professor of sociology at UT Austin, Dr Chantal Hailey studies how micro decision-making contributes to larger macro segregation patterns and how racism creates, sustains, and exacerbates racial, ed...

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The French government holds a crisis meeting as demonstrations grow and become violent in places.

It turns out you can trace America’s 2008 financial crash, in a roundabout way, to 18th-century Prussia. The Seven Years’ War left the kingdom in financial shambles: Just to afford the fighting, Pruss...

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