by Alia Wong | Jun 18, 2019 | government, higher education, lifestyle, politics, race
Like most other colleges across the country, Newbury College, a small, private liberal-arts school in Brookline, Massachusetts, held classes through the end of this past spring semester and then bid farewell to cap-and-gown-wearing seniors. But unlike almost every...
by Alia Wong | Apr 10, 2019 | higher education, lifestyle, race, uncategorized
Every year at this time, headlines reveal once again what everyone already knows: America’s top institutions are selective—very. Harvard took a record-low 4.5 percent of the applicants to its 2023 class. Yale accepted 5.9 percent, the same as the University of...
by Alia Wong | Feb 19, 2019 | child development, health care, k-12 education, lifestyle, public schools
Gun violence has killed nearly 1,200 children in the United States since the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, one year ago. Few of these deaths became the focus of the nation’s attention. Maybe that’s because these killings were so mundane, so normal, in the...
by Alia Wong | Feb 1, 2019 | gender, lifestyle, parenting
Malaysia Goodson was just 22 when she died. She fell down a flight of stairs in a Midtown Manhattan subway station on Monday evening and was found unconscious and unresponsive at the scene, her 1-year-old daughter—who’d been tucked in a stroller and was still...
by Alia Wong | Jan 22, 2019 | k-12 education, language & culture, money matters, politics, public schools, race
In Los Angeles, more than 30,000 teachers remain on strike; it took union and city officials more than a week to eke out a tentative agreement that, they announced Tuesday morning, will likely bring them back to their classrooms this week. Last Friday, teachers from a...
