Ryan Katz
Stories
Schools give low-income students a chance to travel abroad
Some in education think providing travel opportunities can reduce the gap in how well some groups of students perform in school.
What a flipped classroom looks like
In a flipped classroom, students watch or listen to lectures on their own, then spend class time working on projects.
A new study finds school readiness gaps have declined over the past decade
What does it look like to be ready for school?
How thousands of kids were denied special education in Texas
Strap on your cowboy boots: A new investigation by the Houston Chronicle finds that Texas has denied special education services to thousands of kids in the state.
Two centuries of school discipline
How to discipline students has been debated in American schools since the country was founded.
The history of the GI Bill
A staggering 16 million soldiers returned home from World War II, and millions of them went to school. Because GI Bill benefits were generous enough to pay for any college in the country, veterans flooded all types of institutions, from elite schools like Harvard to large state schools, to vocational schools. By 1947, half of all college students in America were veterans.