Education Reform
New Film 'For Ahkeem' Puts a Human Face to Difficult Social Justice Issues
Filmmakers Jeremy Levine and Landon Van Soest talk about their new documentary and how some youths labeled as bad kids are a product of larger failures in society, not their own.
Sorry, Being Born Rich Still Leads to Success More Than Working Hard in School
But economic justice groups in the UK are campaigning hard to fix a broken system.
How Dirt Bikes and Flower Gardens are Helping Rebuild Baltimore
Innovators are taking back their city with social programs that employ ex-offenders and encourage STEM education.
People Are Competing to Solve an Education Crisis in Developing Nations
XPRIZE challenges teams to develop open source and scalable software to enable children to teach themselves reading, writing and arithmetic within 15 months.
France’s New President Promises Jobs to Chronically Unemployed
Emmanuel Macron wants to modernize the country’s economy and education system, but political pitchforks were out long before the first vote was cast.
Four-day school weeks are the new normal in Oklahoma
"This was our best way to survive," one principal tells VICE News.
It Looks Like Bernie Sanders Is Finally Ready to Endorse Hillary Clinton
The Vermont senator will join the Democratic heir apparent at a campaign event in New Hampshire Tuesday.
People wounded in deadly clashes with Mexican police are avoiding hospitals
More than two weeks after deadly clashes in Mexico between a teachers union and police, wounded residents are too afraid to seek proper healthcare, and the investigation into what happened appears stuck.
Mexico’s army is airlifting food because striking teachers are causing shortages
The authorities say the airlifts will restock state-subsidized stores in 300 poverty-stricken communities in the southern state of Oaxaca that it says are running out of food because supplies cannot get through teachers’ roadblocks.
At least six dead as conflict between Mexican teachers and the government boils over
The victims died during clashes between police and radical teachers demonstrating against sweeping education reforms. The teachers say police shot them all. The police blame violent elements within the protests.
Six people dead in clashes between police and protesting teachers in Mexico
Protesters have accused the police of "a massacre." The police have blamed "violent groups" within the protest movement.
Detroit’s Massive School Protests Are the Latest Signs of a National Education Crisis
The teacher protests in Detroit are just the latest in a year of educational tumult across the US as money from state and federal governments dries up.