Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates may think that EPIC Academy’s decision to cease operations is a sign the charter school movement is finished (“The wheels have come off Chicago ...

Emily Scherer has been teaching fifth-grade English in Newport, Vermont, for nearly a decade. In this remote, poor corner of Vermont near the Canadian border, she’s always had some students arrive ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant ...

I made an epic trek across four countries to answer one question: Why is the world going mad for a plushie monster?

The great ancient philosopher Socrates is credited with the famous phrase: "I know that I know nothing." Well, this could very well be trolling, given the sage's character, as recounted by his ...

Jon Ganz committed a terrible crime in his youth, but he survived prison, fell in love, and was starting over. His new life unraveled in a way that nobody could have predicted ...

At 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, the U.S. government ran out of funding and was forced to shut down after Donald Trump and congressional Republicans were unable to cut a deal with Democrats. It’s the first ...

Raquel leaning against a window in "Through My Window." - Netflix "Through My Window," the first movie of the Netflix trilogy, introduces audiences to Raquel (Clara Galle), a high school student who ...

A year after federal prosecutors unveiled a sweeping criminal case against Sean "Diddy" Combs and months after a trial that revealed shocking details of violence and his private life, the convicted ...

There is a way forward, but it requires courage. It requires leaders, media, and citizens alike to say: we can treat people with respect without surrendering to nonsense. We can protect rights without ...

Gabriel Lippmann received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1908 for a new method of colour photography that was never commercially successful. Margaret Harris finds out why ...

My parents sat through a breathless monologue on one of the most exhausting systems USC has to offer: general education. An interlocking web of requirements and rules guards our diplomas with a ...