Search engines steer students with fewer resources toward schools with worse outcomes, many of them predatory for-profits.
Samantha Powers
Samantha Powers is an editorial intern at the Washington Monthly. She studies journalism and political science at Northwestern University, where she served as managing editor of The Daily Northwestern.
Posted inEducation
School Discipline Is in Crisis. Trump Isn’t Helping
With good teachers, innovative approaches to behavioral issues in K-12 schools can improve student outcomes. Trump-era policies threaten those teachers and reforms.
Posted inPolitics
Texas Democrats Chose Faith Over Fighting
Talarico’s U.S. Senate primary victory over Crockett shows that when it comes to fighting MAGA, Democrats may be tiring of taking pages from Trump’s playbook.
Posted inHigher Education
Almost No One Needs College Algebra Anymore
Millions are failing college math. Advocates say the problem isn’t students, but decades-old curricula that require Cold War-era algebra skills.
