The Atlantic: Education

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Damian Dovarganes / AP Education, at its most engaging, is performance art. From the moment a teacher steps into the classroom, students look to him or her to set the tone and course of study for everyone, from the most enthusiastic to the most apathetic students.

A still from Evan Briggs's documentary, Present Perfect shows an elderly resident doing a puzzle with preschoolers. Evan Briggs Giggles and the pitter patter of little feet echo through the halls of Providence Mount St.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Patrick Semansky / AP It’s a reality that’s rattled the education world for years: Black and Latino students are far less likely than their white and Asian peers to be assigned to gifted-and-talented programs.

Joseph Mehling / Dartmouth College Early in my undergraduate years at Dartmouth College, I signed up for a French theater course. I remember waiting in the auditorium with the rest of the class, a large one by the standards of our small liberal-arts school.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Yana Mazurkevich / The Ithacan The country’s college campuses have seen a surge in student activism amid escalating tensions over their hostile racial climates.

The "Dream Director" Jessica Valoris mentors students at a struggling Washington, D.C., school. Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic In her job as a “dream director,” Jessica Valoris is tasked with unleashing the potential of disadvantaged students at an inner-city high school in Washington, D.C.

School security guards and metal detectors in a New York City school Najlah Feanny / Corbis On the coldest morning New York City has seen this winter, a stream of teenage students hit a bottleneck at the front of a Brooklyn school building.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A provision tucked deep within a gargantuan education bill passed in December clarifies the murky legal standing of free-range parenting—sort of.

Michael Ainsworth / Dallas Morning News / Corbis On December 14, 2015, Philip Chism, of Danvers, Massachusetts, was convicted of raping and murdering his high-school math teacher, Colleen Ritzer. Chism, now 16, was 14 when he committed the crime, but was tried as an adult due to a Massachusetts state law requiring juveniles 14 and older accused of murder to be tried as adults.