by Alia Wong | Dec 9, 2019 | education, hawaii, k-12 education, language & culture, politics, public schools, race
Solomon Enos The orphan was surveying the sea from atop a lava-rock shrine when he saw them—omens that looked just as his uncle, a kahuna, had foretold. There was a flock of airborne stingrays amid a series of towers, all hovering over a forest floating...
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 | 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 14, 2018 | early childhood education, education, government, higher education, k-12 education, politics, public schools
It was, perhaps, the best opportunity she had to patch up her reputation since starting her new job. Betsy DeVos, the country’s highly unpopular education secretary, had been asked to participate in an interview on 60 Minutes, and the news-media-shy billionaire...
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...
by Alia Wong | Feb 24, 2018 | education, k-12 education, politics, public schools, race
The aftermath of a mass shooting in the United States can feel like an all-too-familiar play. Act I: Some combination of grief and shock and terror ripples across the nation, accompanied by a deluge of news coverage. Act II: Gun-control advocates leverage the moment...
