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Glad for Plaid, as Catholic Schools Pick Up the Slack

A Brooklyn school-uniform store’s business booms, as COVID wreaks havoc with the opening of public schools, and parents try the parochial route.

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The schools that didn't close

What can we learn from regional enrichment centers, which hastily opened just before the peak of the coronavirus pandemic?

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Portland’s High Stakes Experiment to Shrink the Role of Police in Fighting Gun Violence

Away from the protests, shootings are on the rise. City leaders recently disbanded a police unit meant to prevent them — and what happens next might shape public safety for years.

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Sense of Strength

Can a field trip to Belize help black students finish college?

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The Unmet Promises of a New Orleans Charter School

In 2012 almost all of Sci Academy’s seniors were heading to college. Seven years later, only 18 percent had graduated.

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From prison to dean’s list: How Danielle Metz got an education after incarceration

President Obama let her out of prison. Then she enrolled in college and made the dean's list. “I’m finally coming into my own," she wants to tell him.

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About a Boy

He was a teenager coming of age in an era Time magazine had declared the Transgender Tipping Point. But Jay didn't want to be a trailblazer. He wanted to be normal.

A House Divided
A House Divided

They were a mixed-race family who didn't "see color." Then a white supremacist killed their black son, police said.
The hate keeps coming: Pain lingers for lesbian couple denied in Sweet Cakes case

Rachel and Laurel Bowman-Cryer wanted to buy a wedding cake. What happened that day at Sweet Cakes by Melissa changed their lives forever.
The Pact: Can faith and football lead two friends out of a rough North Portland neighborhood?

Two boys believed friendship, football and faith would get them out of a rough North Portland neighborhood. But what would they sacrifice along the way?
After Roseburg shootings, a son learns to live without the mother he just rediscovered

Walter Dickens waited his entire life to live with his mother. After a gunman killed her and eight others at Umpqua Community College, Dickens must figure out how to live without her.