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Now Playing: Bronx Charter School for the Arts

Arts, Culture & Media

An innovative primary school in one of New York City’s poorest neighborhoods just opened this fall. Its students learn the basics — math, reading, history, and science — but all through the prism of art, music, literature, and performance. Studio 360 asked Alicia Zuckerman to pay regular visits to the elementary school to see how […]

Students in a classroom talking to each other at desks

California will soon provide ethnic studies classes for all high schoolers. Here’s why.

Education
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Why urban schools aren’t providing the lift needed to push poor kids up

Education
Muslim groups say their religious holidays belong on school calendars alongside Jewish and Christian holidays that many districts take off.

How to avoid closing your school for Muslim holidays — end Christian and Jewish ones, too

Education