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Photos Courtesy of LSU's School of TheatreAn updated version of the 2016 play is being staged in an unexpected place — the capitol of a state with a near-total abortion ban. -
Chuan Ming Ong for NPRState and federal governments have made hundreds of millions of dollars available to pay for Grow Your Own teacher programs. But researchers say it's unclear whether they actually work.
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As Southern political leaders continue to take aim at critical race theory in education, students at Baton Rouge Magnet High call the AP pilot class empowering. -
A conversation with journalist and podcast host Josie Duffy Rice details the troubled history of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children, or Mt. Meigs.
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“In Quarantine with Anne Frank,” helps students learn to talk to each other about discrimination.
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As Mississippi lawmakers plot how to keep more teachers in the state, educators warn the state’s bill targeting critical race theory could drive them away.
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Leaders of southern HBCUs gathered for a virtual roundtable to discuss the significance of bomb threats made against their institutions and how to move forward.
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Bans on critical race theory in public education are on the docket around the Gulf South. History teachers discuss how they’re feeling about possible censors to their curriculums.
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COVID-19 cases soared at New Orleans Public Schools during the first week of instruction in 2022, mirroring the skyrocketing cases across the city and the state, while some East Baton Rouge Parish schools pivot to virtual learning in January.
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Some Louisiana colleges and universities have adjusted their spring semester plans to respond to the omicron variant, though they’re taking varying approaches.
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Louisiana’s public schools will reopen this week largely as planned, many without implementing guidance from the state’s health department meant to slow the omicron variant’s spread.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards is moving forward with a Louisiana Department of Health plan to add COVID-19 vaccinations to the list of required immunizations for Louisiana school children, overriding the Republican-controlled state legislative committee that voted against the rule last week.
