Recent critiques of “presentism” fail to see that we can’t divorce the past from the present—and that supposedly objective scholarship has long promoted racist narratives and suppressed Black history.

Conservatives talk about “school choice.” What they really want, though, will result in the end of public education for the poor, and disfavored minorities like LGBT people.

Kari Lake and other far-right candidates have latched onto a controversy in the Scottsdale school district whipped up by conservative mothers.

“Every minute I wasn’t with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health. I was just drowning.”

Biden is in the low 40s, and young voters are disillusioned. There’s one obvious way to reignite a little enthusiasm. Will he take it?

Most schoolchildren get only an hour or two of climate education per year. It’s up to their parents to teach them optimism and action in the face of a daunting crisis.

Religious charter schools are plainly a threat to pluralistic society. But should liberals learn something from them?

The attacks on CRT have terrified our educators. But the public school system has always made it hard to teach controversial subjects.

Washington’s Georgetown Day School does indeed teach inclusion—kind of like Houston’s elite St. John’s School.

Families with school-age kids have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Will they make themselves heard at the ballot box?

Face masks keep kids safe from Covid-19 and keep schools open. There’s no evidence they harm kids developmentally.

Pundits are acting apocalyptic about pandemic education policy and the midterms. The evidence paints a far shakier picture.

The fact that we still don’t have the testing capacity we need to ensure kids are safe in schools is the real problem.

Republicans tried—and failed—to run on parental grievances back in the 1990s. Will this time be different?

Niall Ferguson, Bari Weiss, and others are creating a new university as an antidote to campus illiberalism. It’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.

One of the best ideas in Build Back Better is dead, and the higher-ed lobby deserves some blame.

Conservative intellectuals’ plans to erode liberal democracy are just getting started.

We know how to help young children cope with the trauma of Covid-19. The question is whether we’ll do it.

Failing to mask fully, provide testing, consider community Covid rates, and support teachers has turned the fall term into a nightmare.