In New York City, hands-on learning is taking on a new dimension as students partner with researchers to monitor air pollution in their schools and neighborhoods. Students use the data they generate to address environmental injustices and pursue broader legislative change.

Digital “nomads” seeking paradise settled in a beachfront Dominican town, hurting the local economy, while just beyond their view the Dominican government continues its systemic deportation of Haitians.

In New York City and across the country, publicly-funded education programs for doulas of color are booming. A movement to advocate for Medicaid to cover doula services for low-income, pregnant people, has succeeded in several states, which helps make a doula career more accessible to people of color.

A high school program in Los Angeles brings students into the changing world of architecture.

How one nonprofit program in Florida is trying to shrink the academic and financial gaps for farmworker families.

High schools that treat trans teenagers with respect and care provide essential emotional and academic support, and help these students develop self-confidence and thrive.

Through the power of literature, oral storytelling and identity, Cuban American author Meg Medina, the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, invites children into the world of books.