Education

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.

The student debt crisis has gotten wide attention over the last several years. Democratic Sens.

Higher education may not be doomed, but it’s in trouble. The pandemic hit almost every industry hard, but few were hit as hard as higher education.

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Students at Build UP remodel houses in Birmingham, Alabama, that they can then own, building generational wealth and combating blight. 5 minute ReadWhen students graduate from a new kind of school in Birmingham, Alabama, at the age of 20 or 21, they could end up owning a house.

I found a video clip of him at a conference, reading out a chapter I’d written. He was dressed like me. He had even copied my tattoos.

A 12-year-old in North Carolina used the downtime he had during the pandemic to take on a few extra classes in school.Now, one year later, Mike Wimmer, of Salisbury, is getting ready to graduate high school and college -- in the same week.

An IT teacher who threatened pupils and took some to a strip club while he was drunk during a school trip has been banned from teaching for three years.

Disruptions to education during the pandemic are turning people away from a profession that was already struggling to attract new recruits. Kianna Ameni-Melvin’s parents used to tell her that there wasn’t much money to be made in education.

Imagine you’re a young samurai in Japan in 1701. You have to make a difficult choice between an impoverished life in exile, or the prospect of almost certain death while trying to avenge the death of your dishonored lord. Which do you choose?

After I graduated from Columbia Journalism School in 2018, I did what I was told to do. But when it ended, and I wasn't offered a full-time job, I couldn't help but wonder: What now?

This year, Harvard applications were up 43 percent from last year. At Yale, applicants were up 33 percent. At Duke, 25 percent. The result is plunging acceptance rates. Harvard admitted just 3.4 percent of applicants; Yale, 4.6 percent; Duke, 5.8 percent.

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.

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