COVID-19
Home school
Online learning works only if you can get online. We explore why tens of thousands of families are caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
schools
Criminal Justice
Pushed out
Black girls are being pushed out of school and into jails at alarming rates, but this issue often is overlooked.
Education
Get up, stand up: California’s search for education equity
In California, a unique new formula provides extra dollars for poor districts based on how many disadvantaged students they have, and encourages local decision-making and experimentation on how to reach and teach these kids.
Criminal Justice
Law and Disorder – Part 1
In this episode of Reveal, we investigate why minorities and kids with special needs face criminal charges for acting out in school; we uncover how police are poisoned on the job, and trace how people are building assault weapons from parts they buy online; and we gain insight into an elusive character fighting the death penalty in the most high profile of ways.
Criminal Justice
How kicking a trash can became criminal for a 6th-grader
An analysis by the Center for Public Integrity raises questions about what kind of incidents at school merit police or court intervention and provides fodder for a debate over whether children are getting pushed into a so-called “school-to-prison pipeline” unnecessarily and unjustly.
Criminal Justice
The school-to-court pipeline: Where does your state rank?
U.S. Department of Education data shows that in most states, black, Latino and special-needs students get referred to police and courts disproportionately.
