by Alia Wong | Aug 10, 2020 | education, government, k-12 education, money matters
Zachary Carr hadn’t known Victor for long. Carr, 21, began tutoring the rising fifth grader in mid-June, shortly after wrapping up his junior year at Middle Tennessee State University. But Carr had spent enough one-on-one time with Victor to discern that the boy was...
by Alia Wong | Jun 16, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, money matters
Back in March, people began trickling into Calvin University’s health center complaining of symptoms such as body aches and sore throats. The students and employees tested negative for the flu, leading campus officials to suspect they’d come down...
by Alia Wong | Nov 8, 2019 | government, higher education, money matters
It took a little more than a decade for the University of Chicago to reinvent itself, going from a well-regarded but largely regional school to an extremely selective university with national prestige. In 2006, the Hyde Park university admitted more than a third of...
by Alia Wong | Jul 12, 2019 | government, higher education, money matters
As Yankton College’s only full-time employee, Jan Garrity knows how tough running a postsecondary institution can be. There are students to educate and degrees to confer; faculty and staff to hire and pay; a campus to maintain and a mission to uphold. But the college...
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...
by Alia Wong | Mar 7, 2018 | education, government, health care, k-12 education, money matters, politics, public schools
West Virginia lawmakers at last reached a deal on Tuesday to raise teachers’ salaries by 5 percent. The agreement—along with the prospect of policy solutions to the educators’ other demands—brought to a close a teachers’ strike that had kept K–12 classrooms across all...
