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St. Louis City vs. County Schools: Lessons in inequality [and life]

As a current high school student in St. Louis , I am often asked which high school I attend, and I am quite proud

The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United

A simple description of Tara Westover’s “Educated” would be that is a memoir of a childhood and young adult years in a fundamentalist Mormon

When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly

So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

Is it possible to swill a dozen Diet Cokes and read on the same day? It is. But it’s also possible to down the

One of the enjoyable things about working with middle school students is seeing how creative they can be and how skilled many are at

You might be surprised to know that Elizabeth Warren has written in favor of school vouchers. Granted, that was from a book that she

This fall, “single ladies” interested in ensnaring a man can take a course at St. Louis Community College, listed in the catalogue as “Girls’