Taffy Abel was the 1924 Olympic USA Flag Bearer in Chamonix, France.Jones Family Collection At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, about two dozen American dignitaries and athletes trudged through snowy streets in the opening parade. The American flag - then with just 48 stars - was carried by ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Work, Play, Rest - Part 1. Irma Olguin wants to bring the tech industry to cities like her hometown, Fresno. She believes building a support system for tech workers will strengthen communities and revitalize undervalued cities. About Irma Olguin Irma Olguin is ...

A third-grade teacher conducts class in Rye, N.Y. Researcher Jeffrey Sachs says that since January 2021, 35 states have introduced legislation limiting topics that schools can teach.Mary Altaffer | AP Across the U.S., educators are being censored for broaching controversial topics. Since January 2021, researcher Jeffrey Sachs says, 35 states ...

Deanna DeMaglie for NPR Waukecha Wilkerson is a mom, a small business owner and a tutor when any one of her three kids is struggling with math homework. On top of all that, she's is a part-time student at Sacramento State in California. She says being a student parent comes ...

Daniel Fishel for NPR Joel Barron, a mother of two in Minnetonka, Minn., has a question for policymakers: "Will you look in my child's eyes when they do not have any food?" Until recently, Barron's children, ages 10 and 12, qualified for free school meals. During the last school year, ...

Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Moore, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in the late 1940s.Handout/The Washington Post via Getty Images Updated February 2, 2022 at 7:48 PM ET Seventy years ago, one of the first civil rights leaders of the modern era was killed in a bombing in Florida. ...

LA Johnson | NPR Teachers are picking up slack for absent colleagues. They're covering for unfilled positions. And 55% of them say they will leave teaching sooner than they had originally planned, according to a poll of its members by the nation's largest teachers union. The National Education Association poll, ...

Howard University in Washington, D.C., is one of at least six historically Black colleges and universities that received bomb threats on Monday. It received a second threat on Tuesday.Drew Angerer | Getty Images Updated February 1, 2022 at 8:26 AM ET New bomb threats targeted multiple historically Black colleges and ...

Salomon Abend, second from the left, at Beaune La Rolande.U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum The U.S. Holocaust Museum has acquired photos of a French internment camp where 18,000 Jews were imprisoned before being sent to Auschwitz. The story of how rare photographs were rediscovered begins three decades ago on the streets ...

Ryan Johnson for NPR The SAT, a college admissions exam long associated with paper and pencil, will soon go all-digital. Starting in 2023 for international students and in 2024 in the U.S., the new digital SAT will shrink from three hours to two, include shorter reading passages and allow students ...