Alia Wong is a former workers author at The Atlantic, the place she covers training and households.
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The Most Memorable Family and Education Interviews of the Year
Our reporters mirror on the phrases and concepts that resonated with them in 2019.
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When Schools Try to Tweak Winter Break, Families Fight Back
Controversies over minor adjustments present how invested mother and father are within the end-of-year faculty calendar.
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Solomon Enos
How to Save a Dying Language
The Hawaiian language almost went extinct. Now it’s being taught in dozens of immersion colleges.
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What’s the Difference Between a College and a University?
There’s no such factor as a dumb query.
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The College Campuses That Moonlight as Wedding Venues
Some colleges hire out their amenities, bringing in additional income throughout a time of widespread budgetary woes.
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Six-Figure Price Tags Are Coming to Colleges
The annual price of attending a number of selective universities is slated to succeed in $100,000 inside a couple of years.
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Why Is Middle School So Hard for So Many People?
It doesn’t should be this fashion.
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College Students Just Want Normal Libraries
Schools have been on a mission to reinvent campus libraries—though students simply need the fundamentals.
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The Cat With a Campus Wrapped Around His Paw
For the previous two years, Moxie has been invading lecture rooms and driving round Kenyon College atop students’ backpacks.
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How College Changes the Parent-Child Relationship
The distance can truly strengthen the bond.
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Back-to-School Night Is Hard for Single Parents
Meant to be welcoming, such occasions could make solo mother and father really feel remoted.
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The Most Popular Names of This Year’s College Freshmen
A college’s roster of latest students is a time capsule of fashionable child names from 18 years earlier, with telling variations reflecting the college’s particularities.
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Betsy DeVos’s Extraordinary Crackdown on Michigan State
The Education Department’s record-high fantastic towards MSU underscores the extent to which the college botched its dealing with of varied sexual-abuse scandals.
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Colleges Face Growing International Student-Visa Issues
Amid tightening immigration restrictions, higher-education establishments discover themselves swamped with paperwork.
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Family Reunions: Not Just for Grandparents
At a time when Americans are craving for closeness, such gatherings are fashionable throughout generations.
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How Twin XL Beds Took Over College Campuses
The barely longer mattress is a compromise between colleges’ financial wants and students’ bodily ones.
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Colleges Would Rather Freshmen Not Choose Their Roommates
Though many new students wish to select for themselves, colleges desire to make use of dorms as a option to introduce younger adults to new views.
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When ‘Back to School’ Means Back to Mass-Shooting Fears
High-profile massacres have created ambient, worsening anxiousness about gun violence on Okay–12 campuses.
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The Financial Calamity That Is the Teaching Profession
Teachers are suing the federal government over debt reduction that by no means got here—however their monetary issues go a lot deeper than student loans.
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The College That Became a Prison
Yankton College now not exists. But it’s not absolutely useless both.
