President Biden walks to Marine One outside the White House on Dec. 2. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Education We've been to school. We know how education works. Right? In fact, many aspects of learning — in homes, at schools, at work and elsewhere — are evolving rapidly, along with our understanding of learning. Join us as we explore how learning happens.
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Stewart Indian School students are seen in a classroom in Carson, Nev., in an undated photo. The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools. Courtesy of Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum via AP hide caption
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Loretta J. Ross: What if we called people in, rather than calling them out?
A nurse administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University, Long Beach campus. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
People embrace as they visit a makeshift memorial outside of Oxford High School on Wednesday in Oxford, Mich. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Students hold candles during a prayer vigil after the shootings at Oxford High School on Tuesday in Oxford, Mich. Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP hide caption
Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men." Melissa Block/NPR hide caption
Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change
Parents are scrambling after schools suddenly cancel class over staffing and burnout
An aerial view of The Oval on the campus of the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Terry Gilliam/AP hide caption
LiceDoctors technician Linda Holmes checks the heads of everyone in the Marker family for lice, including preschooler Hudson. It cost more than $200 to get the four-person household checked — eyebrows and Dad's beard included. Rae Ellen Bichell/KHN hide caption
A painting by artist Sidney King depicting a Dutch ship with 20 enslaved African people arriving at Point Comfort, VA in 1619, marking the beginning of slavery in America. Sidney King/Associated Press hide caption
Nikole Hannah-Jones won a MacArthur "Genius" Grant in 2017. She is a tenured faculty member at Howard University. The New York Times hide caption
'1619 Project' journalist says Black people shouldn't be an asterisk in U.S. history
After two student suicides over one October weekend, UNC students created a makeshift memorial on the Chapel Hill campus. To reduce the risk of suicide contagion, any memorial sites or activities should be limited, experts say, and should not glorify, vilify or stigmatize the deceased student or their death. Ira Wilder/Daily Tar Heel hide caption
Howard University students gathered on campus to protest poor housing conditions and what they said was mistreatment by the university administration in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25. Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
Raquel Coronell Uribe will become the first Latinx president of the Harvard Crimson student newspaper. Raquel Coronell Uribe hide caption
Internet access has always been a problem for Faylene Begay, a single mother of four living on the Navajo reservation in Arizona. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Students are still struggling to get internet. The infrastructure law could help
Veronica Vargas helps her children get ready for bed. The three boys sleep in the back of the SUV while Vargas and her partner, Alex, work the overnight shift. Rachel Wisniewski for NPR hide caption