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Trans Youth Are Teaching Schools How to Actually Support Them

The education system is failing transgender youth, but one school in Canada is striving to create a new support model.

LJ Slovin | Jun 25, 2024

How Black Parents Got Cops Out of Oakland Schools

After adopting the George Floyd Resolution for Police-Free Schools, Oakland-area schools saw significant reductions in racist criminalization of Black and Brown kids.

Malaika Parker | Jun 6, 2024

Swiss Schools’ Surprising Solution to Bullying

Switzerland’s “No Blame” approach eschews punishment, instead focusing on empathy, tolerance, and respect.

Michaela Haas | May 24, 2024

Gen Z’s Political Paradox

Zoomers are connected to political issues but disconnected to voting. A young reporter explores the reasons why this is true and what it will take to boost youth voter turnout.

Lajward Zahra | May 2, 2024

Video | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | University of California | Ivy League | College Admissions

Why Are Elite Schools So Attached to the SAT?

Research shows the SAT is racist, sexist, and classist. So why are some elite schools reinstating the test as an admission requirement?

| Apr 18, 2024

Education for Nomadic Families in Nigeria

Displaced by climate change, Fulani children are getting access to education no one in their communities has had before.

Abubakar Muktar Abba | Mar 29, 2024

Video | Diversity Equity Inclusion | Racial Justice | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | DEI

Combatting Anti-DEI Efforts

Matthew Kincaid delves into the history of attacks on DEI initiatives, and encourages teachers to stand firm on racial justice education.

| Jan 26, 2024

Excerpt | Moms for Liberty | School Moms | Public Education | School Choice

The Heroes Fighting for Public Education

In the face of far-right extremist groups like Moms for Liberty, “school moms” have become the frontline defenders of education for all.

Laura Pappano | Jan 23, 2024

Harvard President Claudine Gay broke racial and gender barriers—and that’s really why she was ousted, says commentator Errin Haines.

Video | Racism | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Claudine Gay | Right-Wing

The Politics of Claudine Gay’s Resignation

Harvard President Claudine Gay broke racial and gender barriers—and that’s really why she was ousted, says commentator Errin Haines.

| Jan 10, 2024

A photo of student protests, detail on megaphone with the Palestinian flag over it.

The Palestine Exception to Campus Free Speech

Writing under a pseudonym to protect herself, a high school student details the intimidation she and her peers have faced from schools for protesting the Gaza genocide.

Aila Haqq | Dec 20, 2023

Analysis | Philadelphia | School-to-Prison-Pipeline | Police

How Philadelphia Disrupted the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.

Amanda NeMoyer, Naomi Goldstein | Dec 5, 2023

Centering Indigenous Languages in India’s Schools

India is among the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, but its Indigenous languages have been marginalized—along with those who speak them.

Sarita Santoshini | Oct 23, 2023

Video | Reparations | YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali | Education Reform | Bettina Love

Repairing Decades of Racist School Reforms

In a new book, Bettina Love, Ph.D., lays out the harms created by decades of school reforms and charts a path toward repair.

| Oct 13, 2023

Preschool students walking in a parking lot

Tiny Bus, Big Opportunities for Immigrant Kids

El Busesito (“the little bus”) is a preschool on wheels that delivers free early childhood and family engagement programs to Latino immigrant families in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.

Emily Tate Sullivan | Mar 27, 2023

Teachers and Students Respond to Black History Bans

“The revolution is in the classroom.”

Aina Marzia | Feb 15, 2023

Analysis | Immigration | Human rights

A Site That Safeguards Migrants’ Educational Credentials

When people forced to flee their homes then arrive in new countries, their efforts to continue with higher education and careers are often stymied.

Elizabeth Hewitt | Dec 9, 2022

Opinion | Workplace | Work

To Transform Work, Start With Schools

Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.

Ruben Abrahams Brosbe | Aug 15, 2022

How Civil Rights Leader Bob Moses Used Math Literacy to Push for Racial Equality

The Algebra Project sprang directly from Bob Moses’ civil rights work in Mississippi, which transformed the state from a segregationist stronghold into a focal point of the civil rights revolution.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries | Jul 30, 2021

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