It's crucial that young children learn to swim, but it's a lot easier to get lessons if you're affluent and White.

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Asheville letters to the editor call for Trump impeachment after Iran bombings without Congressional approval, demand Middle ...

It’s wrong that private voucher schools are getting more funding than most public schools.

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If you can get children reading and learning early, they’ll never stop. That’s the theory behind the Moses Lake Public Library’s Early Literacy Fair. “We have a variety of what are called the big ...

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If we want a multicultural society, we may have to let parents opt kids out of lessons about gender. Jonathan Zimmerman teaches education and history at the University of Pennsylvania and is the ...

Baumgartner also voted for H.R. 1, the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a budget bill that slashes funding for CMS. In doing so, he stripped away the tools needed to enforce the patient protections he now claims ...