Access to quality education has a tremendous impact on the lives of people around the world, leading to positive outcomes in economic success and health. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Education” feature reporting that covers how education is used to improve standards of living, increase economic opportunity, and build a global middle class. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on education.
With its fast-growing immigrant population, Louisiana is a prime example of a state trying to keep pace with increasing language access demands.
College students are prepared to follow instructions, Professor Dan Melzer says, but they struggle when an assignment asks them to think for themselves.
Recent debates over academic freedom are threatening Confucius Institutes’ relationships with their U.S. universities.
At the Guangzhou School for the Blind, the principal is seeking more diverse job training.
The largest special education school in China contains state-of-the-art facilities, and many of its students have won national awards. Yet beneath its shiny infrastructure lies an uncertain future.
Unlike many other students with disabilities in China, deaf students have the opportunity to go to school and attend college. Yet even parents and teachers don’t see them as equal members of society.
Russian law prohibiting the dissemination of "homosexual propaganda" to minors claims its first victims: a small weekly newspaper ordered to pay a hefty fine and a teacher fired from his job.
In Kenya, improving sexual health education and providing girls and women with control over their own fertility are crucial in preventing maternal deaths.
A privately run school for Syrian children, psychologically traumatized or developmentally delayed, will close next month due to lack of funding.
Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled their homes ahead of the Islamic State onslaught. Despite U.S. airstrikes, the prospect of these refugees returning is very low.
The so-called “Swedish model” of banning the purchase but not the sale of sex is catching on in Europe. But does it work? And for whom?
Although the school lunch program can foster tolerance, discrimination against lower castes persists in rural India.
Students in a summer class in Chicago talked via Skype with five Pulitzer Center journalists and experts and blogged about their experiences.
Pulitzer Center hosts event for DC interns on “Crafting and Communicating the Stories of Our Time." Meghan Dhaliwal and Steve Sapienza discuss how to develop a "journalistic mentality."
A worldwide vigil for the Nigerian students abducted by Boko Haram draws attention to a major global issue: the education of girls.
During his passage through Saudi Arabi, Paul Salopek experiences first-hand the struggle Hejazis are having reconciling memories of their homeland with the realities of the new Middle East.
On June 19, the Pulitzer Center's D.C. education program participates in the "Do More 24" online giving campaign. Please support our work!
The 21 Pulitzer Center student fellows from our Campus Consortium partners this year will report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from public health to the environment.
The 1,000-day period from the beginning of pregnancy to a child’s second birthday influences an individual’s ability to grow, learn, and work.
Pulitzer Center project combines data visualization and the work of journalists around the world to show the public health impact of traffic fatalities
Great photography is a Pulitzer Center hallmark and so is reporting of depth and insight, sometimes on stories in the news and sometimes on issues that should be.
"Easy Like Water," a film that documents one man's mission to help Bangladesh's schools adapt to climate change, attracts notice from television broadcasts.
The Pulitzer Center staff shares favorite images from 2013.
“She went back to her village and decided to live as if nothing had happened. Four years later, she was married. She said her husband didn't know anything about her past."
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