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  • Torture teachers

    An Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.
    By Mark Benjamin June 29, 2006

  • Woman of Zimbabwe protest rising school fees

    As education becomes out of reach for many students in the impoverished country, WOZA storms the streets again.
    By Page Rockwell May 5, 2006

  • Reformed school girl

    Christine Rosen attended a fundamentalist Christian school, but the doctrinaire teachings -- and the scary sex-ed classes -- couldn't stem the tide of her questions.
    By Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow January 3, 2006

  • How to help African girls? Build toilets.

    Poor sanitation makes it harder for girls in sub-Saharan Africa to stay in school.
    By Page Rockwell December 23, 2005

  • Homework hell

    Today's 7-year-olds must do interviews, look through thousands of words, and answer 60 math questions in four minutes. This homework mania doesn't teach kids anything except that life is full of pain.
    By Ayelet Waldman October 22, 2005

  • Endless summer

    Unschooling is a radical branch of home-schooling where kids control what and when they learn -- free of teachers, schedules and tests. Unschoolers say it's intellectually empowering. Critics call it irresponsible.
    By Sarah Karnasiewicz October 3, 2005

  • Separate schools for Katrina students?

    Texas officials want to waive federal rules that prevent schools from segregating homeless students. But advocates and others are crying foul.
    By Michael Scherer September 19, 2005

  • "Americans are not going broke over lattes!"

    Home mortgages, insurance and, above all, children are driving middle-class parents into bankruptcy, says Harvard law professor and author Elizabeth Warren.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski October 13, 2003

  • A laptop in every knapsack

    Computers can spark a learning revolution, says the author of a new study of technology and education. But how will we pay for it?
    By Andrew Leonard October 1, 2003

  • Lynda Barry

    What She Just Said
    September 20, 2002

  • The fading war on drugs

    How Osama bin Laden caused the decline of DARE, the anti-drug program that brought you "Just Say No."
    By Dan McGraw August 19, 2002

  • Schoolyard chums

    While civil libertarians are furious over the Supreme Court's voucher decision, many low-income African-Americans are solidly in the conservative camp.
    By Michelle Goldberg June 29, 2002

  • God stoppers

    The 9th Circuit judges who struck down the Pledge may be the most unpopular people in America right now. There's just one catch: They're right.
    By Scott Rosenberg June 28, 2002

  • Flour power

    The authorities have decided that hauling around sacks of flour will teach middle schoolers not to get pregnant. My daughter and I think it's a half-baked idea.
    By Susan Straight June 25, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    Bug-out with Marlys!
    June 19, 2002

  • We hung the most dimwitted essays on the wall

    The biggest case against standardized testing might be the people who score the tests -- people like me, for instance.
    By Amy Weivoda June 5, 2002

  • It's the schools, stupid

    If Democrats really want to take back the House, they should start talking about charter schools.
    By Arianna Huffington April 5, 2002

  • Lynda Barry

    Drastic action
    March 21, 2002

  • "They said people came and the city's in trouble"

    Brooklyn kids tell the story they were told.
    By Amie Barrodale September 12, 2001

  • The last integrationist?

    A Memphis attorney is using a 1963 desegregation lawsuit to block expansion of suburban schools and get a better deal for inner-city black students.
    By King Kaufman August 27, 2001

  • Reading, writing and propaganda

    American school kids are being subjected to "news" programs that contain covert government-sponsored anti-drug messages.
    By Daniel Forbes August 8, 2001

  • Microsoft to schools: Give us your lunch money!

    The software giant is cracking down on piracy in the public education system. But the campaign could easily backfire.
    By Damien Cave July 10, 2001

  • Sex school

    Taiwan plans to open an institute of sexology in an effort to reduce its divorce rate.
    By Chris Colin April 16, 2001

  • The Bush education plan is too timid

    We need to give families a choice -- and that means vouchers and charter schools.
    By Arianna Huffington April 16, 2001

  • Lunchtime quickies?

    A fifth-grade girl says her classmates trade soda and cash for sex.
    By Chris Colin April 10, 2001
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