Education

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South.

Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere.

Teachers tried to bully me into signing a $375 student government check for a group promoting critical race theory. I refused.I was educated in the school district ranked by Niche.com as America’s third-best. Immigrants from around the world come to Great Neck, N.Y., to raise their children.

About 10 minutes after stepping to the podium of the Roosevelt Room on Aug. 24—having already regaled reporters with stories of wearing baseball spikes to his father’s workplace in Newark, Del.

When I was a kid, my favorite poem was Shel Silverstein’s “The Homework Machine,” which summed up my childhood fantasy: a machine that could do my homework at the press of a button. Decades later that technology, the innocuously titled GPT-3, has arrived.

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. In addition to our traditional advice, every Thursday we feature an assortment of teachers from across the country answering your education questions. Have a question for our teachers? Email askateacher@slate.

Ms. Hanford is a senior education correspondent for American Public Media. The most important thing schools can do is teach children how to read. If you can read, you can learn anything. If you can’t, almost everything in school is difficult. Word problems. Test directions. Biology homework.

College isn’t for everyone, but education is. With soaring tuition costs, it’s no surprise people are more open than ever to self-teaching methods to learn about what interests them. YouTube has been a trusted tool for this.

With the vociferous debate over President Joe Biden’s announcement that the federal government will cancel a portion of outstanding student debt, it’s important to understand how Americans came to owe the current cumulative total of more than $1.6 trillion for higher education.

When Agnes Bolinska was an undergraduate, she didn’t talk much in class. She later found that speaking, in and of itself, is a powerful way to explore and sharpen nascent ideas.

The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable.

If you’re old enough to remember the first day of school in the 1970s or 80s, your memory is probably of rolling up on foot, with nary a parental vehicle in sight. Moms and dads mostly didn’t chauffeur their children to class. School was something you walked to. Fast forward to the present.

Parents always knew raising a child in India – with its broken model of education – is expensive, and turning more so. Actual numbers support this belief.

The number of students held back for a year of school has surged around the country.

Professor Dynarski is an economist at Harvard University. As an economist who studies education, I long thought that forgiving student loans was a crude and inequitable tool for fixing student aid. College graduates, after all, are the winners in our society.