When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest
July 23, 2024
The pandemic led many teachers to leave their jobs − a trend that could continue if education leaders don’t address issues that affect morale.
July 23, 2024
Universities and colleges nationwide are beginning to investigate quantum education to develop a workforce ready for quantum technology.
July 23, 2024
Biden administration asks Supreme Court to let it enforce anti-discrimination rules for pregnant women in schools
July 22, 2024
Harris campaign begins to conduct outreach to youth organizations to win over young voters
July 22, 2024
5 strategies for families to ensure children are safe online, according to a new White House report
July 22, 2024
A top Chinese university has fired a professor a day after a graduate student accused him of sexual harassment and posted recordings online as evidence
July 22, 2024
Byju Raveendran, an Indian mathematics whiz who soared from teacher to startup billionaire before his education-technology company imploded this year, now faces
July 22, 2024
Children ingest water beads at daycare; get medical treatment
July 21, 2024
11-year-old boy hosts flea market fundraiser to support community
July 21, 2024
A group that monitors armed conflict in Myanmar says an intensification of fighting in the Southeast Asian nation's civil war has resulted in a sharp increase in destructive attacks on schools
July 20, 2024
Former preschool teacher sentenced to 3 years of probation for child abuse
July 20, 2024
NFL lineman Jon Feliciano hosts back-to-school drive in Davie, donating 400 backpacks full of supplies
July 19, 2024
Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms, at least until November
July 19, 2024
Student loan payments will be paused for 8 million borrowers after appeals court temporarily halts Biden’s repayment plan
July 19, 2024
A fleet of taxis, a security escort, and a harrowing six-hour journey brought Asif Hussain and about 80 other Indian students back home on Friday from
July 19, 2024
An athletic trainer explains why bodies need time time to acclimatize, and the risks to watch out for.
July 19, 2024
A history professor recounts how being indoors during the pandemic led him to rediscover his fondness for video games – and to bring it into the classroom as well.
July 19, 2024
In Togo, these school uniforms are at the center of a movement offering girls and women a chance to build better lives
July 19, 2024
Newest National Park Service site is a stark reminder of the era of segregated schools in the US
July 18, 2024
Appeals court halts fresh Biden administration efforts to cancel some student debt
July 18, 2024
A federal appeals court has blocked the implementation of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, which would have lowered monthly payments for millions of borrowers
July 18, 2024
A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from continuing to implement a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly
July 18, 2024
San Jose State putting plastic coyotes on football field to scare off geese
July 18, 2024
The Biden administration is cancelling an additional $1.2 billion in student loans for borrowers who work in public service through changes to an existing forgiveness program
July 18, 2024
Even if your kids roll their eyes, keep making jokes, research says
July 18, 2024
A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana
July 18, 2024
Critics say undocumented students put a strain on limited school resources, but research suggests otherwise.
July 18, 2024
Biden announces additional $1.2 billion in student debt relief for 35,000 public-sector workers
July 18, 2024
A federal appeals court has refused to lift a judge’s order temporarily blocking the Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students
July 17, 2024
Biden administration urges Supreme Court to let it continue implementing student loan repayment program
July 17, 2024
More student loan borrowers are getting relief through bankruptcy after Biden policy change
July 17, 2024
JPS announces historic pay increase for teachers and staff
July 17, 2024
Audiobooks can develop children’s listening skills, expand their vocabulary and encourage independent learning.
July 17, 2024
Several major universities in Bangladesh have agreed to shut their doors after at least six people died in violent campus protests
July 17, 2024
Changes coming to ACT exam, including the science portion being made optional
July 16, 2024
A federal judge’s order blocking a Biden administration rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination applies to hundreds of schools and colleges across the U.S. A group that opposes the rule now hopes to extend it further
July 16, 2024
Computer scientist Andrej Karpathy announced on Tuesday that he was starting an AI-integrated education platform named Eureka Labs, leveraging years of experience at ChatGPT developer
July 16, 2024
Schools' rejection of AP African American studies course hotly debated at meeting
July 16, 2024
First-of-its-kind program teaches students electric vehicle tech
July 16, 2024
For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories
July 16, 2024
Why are some individuals at greater risk for developing opioid dependence and addiction? Two neuroscientists at Rowan University discuss their latest findings.
July 16, 2024
Teens feel less emotional support than their parents think they do, new report shows
July 16, 2024
The conservative think tank that drew up a nearly 1,000-page guidebook on how the next Republican administration can remake the federal government is highlighting its policies while defending itself from Democratic criticism
July 15, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law barring school districts from passing policies requiring schools to notify parents if their child asks to change their gender identification
July 15, 2024
City turns traffic fines into school supplies for kids
July 15, 2024
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is a 75-foot-long sauropod named Gnatalie (pronounced Natalie)
July 14, 2024
A pipe organ that provided the live music for silent movies in an ornate Detroit theater nearly a century ago is set to become the centerpiece of a performing arts center on a New York college campus
July 14, 2024
A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while employed at the University of Kansas
July 13, 2024
21 people die as school building collapses in Nigeria as students sit exam
July 13, 2024
Mental health experts, community clinics and politicians are working to create new programs to break down barriers that Latinos might face to getting therapy or treatment
July 12, 2024
An award winning film director provides free creative writing and filmmaking courses
July 12, 2024
Shelly the tortoise removed from home at Scenic Hills Elementary School, despite community backlash
July 12, 2024
What a geriatric doctor wishes you knew now for healthy aging
July 12, 2024
Former students detail betrayal over fake 'University of Farmington' set up by ICE agents
July 12, 2024
By giving dogs a second chance through adoption, these vulnerable kids are getting a second chance of their own
July 12, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday tossed the conviction of a former University of Kansas professor for making a false statement related to work he was doing in China, marking
July 11, 2024
West Virginia and Idaho ask Supreme Court to decide whether states can enforce anti-transgender sports bans
July 11, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Thursday created a test for courts to determine when college
July 11, 2024
A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia has ruled that some college athletes may qualify as employees under federal wage-and-hour laws
July 11, 2024
National Republicans are poised to take up a platform next week that includes “universal school choice.”
July 11, 2024
Author-illustrator Brian Selznick’s next book is for all ages
July 11, 2024
Ending tuition might not result in more doctors serving the communities that need them most without further steps.
July 11, 2024
The Biden administration says it’s providing $244 million to expand and update the federal government’s registered apprenticeship program
July 11, 2024
Dartmouth student’s death prompts police hazing probe as university suspends 2 Greek organizations
July 10, 2024
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has issued an executive order to limit or ban cell phone use for roughly 1.2 million public school students, in what he described as a response
July 10, 2024
McGill University has closed its downtown campus as Montreal police descended in large numbers to help clear a pro-Palestinian encampment
July 10, 2024
New York University settles lawsuit over antisemitism for undisclosed amount
July 10, 2024
Virginia governor issues executive order that will limit or ban cell phone use in schools
July 10, 2024
Virginia has joined a growing number of states that are pushing for cellphone restrictions in public schools
July 09, 2024
GOP-led states press Supreme Court to review Biden student loan program
July 09, 2024
Artist repairing Peanuts' Lucy statue for South St. Paul library
July 08, 2024
Police investigating report of alcohol use, hazing after body of student found
July 08, 2024
New York University settled a lawsuit by Jewish students who accused the school of failing to stop antisemitism on campus.
July 08, 2024
Louisiana plaintiffs ask court to temporarily block law that requires public schools to display Ten Commandments
July 08, 2024
Medical school is now free for most students at this top university after a $1 billion donation
July 08, 2024
UConn and men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley have agreed to a six-year, $50 million contract through the 2029-30 season, nearly a month after he turned down a lucrative offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers
July 08, 2024
Columbia removes three deans from power for ‘very troubling’ antisemitic text messages
July 08, 2024
Most medical students at Johns Hopkins University will no longer pay tuition thanks to a $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies
July 08, 2024
A new poll finds Americans are increasingly skeptical about the value and cost of college
July 08, 2024
A group of Baltimore teachers is asking voters to approve a ballot initiative that would give $1,000 to new parents in hopes of reducing childhood poverty starting from birth
July 08, 2024
A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own recent order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism
July 07, 2024
"August 4th – An Olympic Odyssey" is a new, hour long documentary from Warner Brothers Discovery, which aired on Max, discovery+* and Eurosport. The film has utilized an extensive archive to highlight a day that holds huge importance and significance in Summer Olympics down the years, including 1936, which saw the legendary American athlete Jesse Owens win four gold medals. CNN World Sport's Don Riddell caught up with Stuart Owen Rankin, the grandson of Jesse Owens, and they began by discussing the perhaps unlikely friendship which came about from Owens competing against a German long jumper by the name of Luz Long.
July 04, 2024
Disciplinary measures used by Kansas’ largest school district discriminated against Black and disabled students, DOJ says
July 04, 2024
A California man has been convicted of murder in the killing of a gay University of Pennsylvania student in a 2018 stabbing for an act of hate
July 03, 2024
Private equity firms KKR and Francisco Partners are competing to acquire Instructure, a U.S. education software provider with a market value of $3.4 billion, people familiar
July 03, 2024
A leading House Democrat is preparing a constitutional amendment in response to the Supreme Court’s landmark immunity ruling
July 03, 2024
Saginaw native helps bring a Latino fraternity to Ferris State University
July 03, 2024
Georgia State professor Moraima “Mo” Ivory is known for bringing celebrities like Steve Harvey and Ludacris into her law class
July 03, 2024
Making physics more engaging means meeting students where they are, highlighting the ways in which it plays a role in their communities.
July 03, 2024
The U.S. should welcome more students from China, but to study the humanities rather than sciences, the second-ranked U.S. diplomat said
July 03, 2024
Louisiana was sued on Monday over a new law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms in the state.
July 03, 2024
A federal judge in Kansas has blocked a federal rule expanding anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students from being enforced in four states and a patchwork of places elsewhere across the nation
July 03, 2024
Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labour
July 02, 2024
Kevin Khadavi, a Jewish student at Stanford University, got a call from his grandmother last week urging him not to wear his Star of David necklace around
July 02, 2024
Several hundred faculty members at Harvard University on Sunday signed a petition asking school administrators to not bend to political pressure to fire the school's
July 02, 2024
Harvard University's governing board declared its support for the Ivy League school's president on Tuesday, a day after meeting to weigh the public backlash following remarks
July 02, 2024
(Corrects paragraph 18 to say no funding cuts to Pell Grants instead of a $1,000 cut.)
July 02, 2024
Students in Iowa walked out of school on Monday to demonstrate at the state capitol, calling for lawmakers to take action to address gun violence after an 11-year-old
July 02, 2024
Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, who joined other Harvard graduates in successfully calling for the university's president Claudine Gay to resign, is
July 02, 2024
A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school.
July 02, 2024
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman failed on Friday to get candidates they backed to join Harvard's board of overseers.
July 02, 2024
Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on
July 02, 2024
Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover
July 02, 2024
Renewed clashes between police and students opposed to Israel's war in Gaza broke out on Thursday, raising questions about forceful methods
July 02, 2024
Columbia University's embattled president came under renewed pressure on Friday as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for
July 02, 2024
Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968"
July 02, 2024
Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to dismantle a protest camp on the New York City
July 02, 2024
Hundreds of helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday to dismantle
July 02, 2024
The occupation of a building at Columbia University by pro-Palestinian student protesters was in its 18th hour when photos and videos dinged across students'
July 02, 2024
British students set up pro-Palestinian protest encampments on Oxford and Cambridge universities' historic campuses on a cloudy spring Monday, in a show of
July 02, 2024
Columbia University on Monday canceled its main graduation ceremony after weeks of pro-Palestinian protests roiled the Ivy League college's campus, but it will still
July 02, 2024
Dutch riot police clashed with protesters at the University of Amsterdam on Wednesday, while scores of demonstrators at U.S. colleges were arrested overnight as the student-led
July 02, 2024
The late U.S. civil rights leader and journalist Daisy Bates, who was instrumental in desegregating Arkansas public schools in the 1950s, was honored with a
July 02, 2024
Police dismantled protest camps and arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian activists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of
July 02, 2024
About a dozen students arrested by police clearing a sit-in at a Denver college campus emerged from detainment to cheers from fellow pro-Palestinian
July 02, 2024
Hundreds of university students in the Georgian capital walked out of classes on Monday, joining thousands of protesters opposing a bill on "foreign agents", as the
July 02, 2024
The University of Amsterdam on Monday said it would remain closed for two days after police moved in to end a pro-Palestinian protest at one of its campuses earlier on the day.
July 02, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday met with family members of the plaintiffs in the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v.
July 02, 2024
After the arrests of pro-Palestine student protesters occupying a Columbia University building last month, New York Mayor Eric Adams and senior police officials
July 02, 2024
Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old from Tampa, Florida, won the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee in a spell-off on Thursday, correctly spelling 29 words in 90 seconds including some of the most
July 02, 2024
Ukrainian teenager Yelisei Mamonov dreams of attending his country's top technical university one day.
July 02, 2024
Pro-Israel education group warns of ‘antisemitism and anti-Israel bias’ in teachers’ union proposals
July 02, 2024
An Ontario judge ordered pro-Palestinian protesters to leave their two-month-old encampment at Canada's largest university by Wednesday evening, granting the University of Toronto's
July 02, 2024
Utah State says it’s firing football coach Blake Anderson after an external review of allegations that he hadn’t complied with Title IX policies regarding the reporting of sexual misconduct cases
July 02, 2024
Bezos Academy, a tuition-free preschool, under construction in Okolona
July 02, 2024
Two scholars of nonprofits explain what is and isn’t permissible.
July 02, 2024
The soccer academy that Premier League star Son Heung-min helped establish in South Korea is facing bullying allegations involving coaches and a young player
July 02, 2024
Australian police said it had arrested a 14-year-old boy after a stabbing at the University of Sydney on Tuesday morning, which triggered a lockdown of the university buildings.
July 01, 2024
Biden and Trump touted what they’ve done for HBCUs at CNN’s debate. Here’s what their records show
July 01, 2024
Teacher hosts YouTube dinner parties to keep students connected to the kitchen
July 01, 2024
How one school bus driver made $124,000 last year
July 01, 2024
A federal appeals court has allowed the U.S. Education Department to move ahead with a plan to lower monthly payments for millions of student loan borrowers, putting on hold a ruling last week by a lower court
July 01, 2024
The World Bank said on Monday that it had approved $700 million for two new programs aimed at strengthening Jordan's education, health and social assistance sectors.
July 01, 2024
A U.S. appeals court allowed President Joe Biden's administration to move forward with implementing a key part of a new student debt relief plan designed to lower monthly
July 01, 2024
Why student loan payments are paused for 3 million borrowers
July 01, 2024
The lack of reliable electricity severely affects education and businesses in Nigeria
July 01, 2024
Australia said on Monday it had more than doubled the visa fee for international students, the latest move by the government to rein in record migration that has
July 01, 2024
This 12-year-old memorized the periodic table at age 2. He’s heading to NYU after finishing high school in just 2 years
June 30, 2024
Uvalde shooting indictments: What to know about the charges against two former school police officers and what comes next
June 30, 2024
As a legal battle ensues over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of exactly how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain unclear
June 30, 2024
Christians and Jews believe in the Ten Commandments — just not necessarily the version that will hang in every public school and state-funded college classroom in Louisiana
June 29, 2024
The World Bank said on Saturday its board of executive directors has approved $1.25 billion in loans for the Philippines' education and public infrastructure sectors.
June 29, 2024
States are trying to help workers beef up their tech skills before they become outdated and get outfoxed by machines that are becoming increasingly smarter
June 29, 2024
The University of Michigan and the City University of New York have fallen short in addressing recent incidents of anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab and antisemitic
June 28, 2024
NYC public libraries have their funding restored, will reopen on Sundays
June 28, 2024
A federal judge in Kentucky on Monday blocked President Joe Biden's administration from implementing new protections for LGBT students from discrimination in schools and
June 28, 2024
Iowa Baseball Camp for the Deaf brings accessibility to the sport
June 28, 2024
Nursing student provides home for autistic woman from Israel
June 28, 2024
Incoming Harvard freshman spends summer developing personal finance curriculum
June 28, 2024
More than six years after a gunman massacred 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in one of the worst U.S. school
June 28, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to revive its directive that schools allow transgender students to use bathrooms and
June 28, 2024
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and other institutions in the state conducted graduation ceremonies on Friday without the disruption of protests over
June 28, 2024
A University of Nebraska regent has proposed a way for football-crazy Cornhusker fans to carry their fandom into the afterlife
June 28, 2024
An indictment alleges the police chief for schools in Uvalde, Texas, failed to identify an active shooting, did not follow his training and made critical decisions that slowed the law enforcement response to stop a gunman who was “hunting” victims
June 28, 2024
A team of researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo released a study showing how they made a robot with 'living' skin be able to smile.
June 28, 2024
Two task forces charged with proposing ways to combat anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and antisemitism at Harvard University have delivered their preliminary recommendations to the school’s interim president
June 27, 2024
A small Texas university has gone to court to object to the $2.77 billion settlement proposal that would erase a set of antitrust claims against the NCAA and the nation’s largest conferences and clear the way for schools to begin steering millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as fall 2025
June 27, 2024
Oklahoma's top education official is ordering public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12
June 27, 2024
A team of investigators led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch recommended Northwestern enhance its hazing prevention training in the wake of a scandal that rocked the school’s athletic department
June 27, 2024
With graduation season over, many college grads are embarking on summer internships or their first full-time jobs
June 27, 2024
Thousands of University of California academic workers who went on strike at six campuses protesting administrators' response to pro-Palestinian protests
June 26, 2024
A Massachusetts public middle school did not violate a student's free speech rights under the U.S.
June 26, 2024
A new study finds that hiring practices, not a bachelor’s degree, may be the ‘great equalizer’ of opportunity for some soon-to-be grads.
June 26, 2024
Five Beverly Vista Middle School students have been expelled for creating and sharing explicit AI-generated images of their classmates. During a special meeting on March 6, the Beverly Hills Unified School District (BHUSD) decided on the expulsions, but California Education Code restricted the details shared. While specifics are limited due to student privacy regulations, according to the LA Weekly, reports indicate the disturbing practice involved digitally superimposing eighth-graders’ faces onto AI-generated nude bodies, a technique known as “deepfakes.” Shockingly, a total of 16 students were victimized by these manipulated images, which were swiftly destroyed within 24 hours of school officials
June 25, 2024
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled that the approval of what would be the nation's first state-funded Catholic charter school is unconstitutional
June 25, 2024
Born from the tragedy of gun violence, this program teaches children how to stop a wound from bleeding out
June 25, 2024
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to registered nurse Kate Carleton about her efforts to prepare schoolchildren to treat injuries suffered in a mass shooting.
June 25, 2024
Whether you’re a reporter, a teacher or a nurse, it’s becoming more difficult to find meaning in your work.
June 25, 2024
Two shooters opened fire on Friday at a rural branch of the University of Panama, killing a young man and wounding another, police and university officials said.
June 25, 2024
Buyout firm Bain Capital will take PowerSchool Holdings private in a deal valuing the education-software provider at $5.6 billion, PowerSchool said on Friday.
June 25, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday dismissed criticism of Turkey's new education curriculum and vowed to prioritise "national values" in the face of worries that the changes will
June 25, 2024
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom
June 25, 2024
Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri have together blocked much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers
June 25, 2024
Federal judges in Kansas and Missouri have together blocked much of a Biden administration student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers
June 24, 2024
Civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s new law mandating that the Ten Commandments must be displayed in every public school classroom
June 24, 2024
A former University of Arizona graduate student has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing a professor on campus months after he was expelled
June 24, 2024
The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities
June 24, 2024
A sociologist and former high school math teacher found that Philadelphia students face starkly different expectations for college depending on what type of school they attend.
June 24, 2024
Columbia University says it is putting three administrators on leave while it investigates allegations that they exchanged unprofessional text messages while attending a panel about antisemitism on campus
June 23, 2024
A 17-year-old vocational school student from rural China has become a celebrity on Chinese social media after getting into the final round of a math competition, beating many others from elite universities while raising questions about the education system
June 22, 2024
More than a dozen people were arrested at Stanford University in California on Wednesday after pro-Palestinian student protesters barricaded themselves inside the office of the
June 21, 2024
Dozens of Columbia University students who were arrested for occupying a campus building as part of a pro-Palestinian protest will have their criminal charges dropped
June 21, 2024
The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of the past.
June 21, 2024
Parents across Europe are rallying to make it normal for young kids to live smartphone-free
June 21, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail
June 20, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a podcast released on Thursday said that students graduating from U.S. colleges should get a green
June 20, 2024
Columbia University will provide safety escorts and take other steps to protect its students, to settle a lawsuit claiming its campus had become unsafe during
June 20, 2024
Dozens of pro-Palestinian student protesters arrested in April after occupying and barricading a building at Columbia University in New York City had all criminal
June 20, 2024
A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges
June 20, 2024
Thirteen-year-old Palestinian Hadeel Madi has many dreams, she said, and worked hard at school so she could study abroad.
June 20, 2024
Maryland teacher faces 55 charges for allegedly abusing eight students over two years
June 19, 2024
Facing upheaval on the way in college athletics, a handful of administrators and athletes from smaller schools have been working on a new model of governance
June 19, 2024
Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom
June 19, 2024
Districts across the country have struggled to improve access and diversity in advanced math classes for years. A new approach offers hope.
June 19, 2024
A scholar of nonprofits explains why she’s concerned that the decision in the Fearless Fund case could discourage all efforts focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
June 19, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he wants to restrict students' usage of smartphones during the school day
June 18, 2024
A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball is assailing those who outed her child
June 18, 2024
More colleges around the country have been closing as they cope with steep declines in enrollment
June 18, 2024
Former LSU coach Les Miles is suing the university over its decision to vacate 37 of his teams' victories between 2012 and 2015
June 17, 2024
The Biden administration’s effort to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students has hit another roadblock
June 17, 2024
The University of Michigan and the City University of New York didn't adequately investigate complaints about antisemitic or anti-Palestinian harassment linked to campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war and other incidents
June 17, 2024
The 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned 50 years of abortion rights is affecting where young people choose to go to college, to work and to live, as well as the way they vote.
June 17, 2024
It would have been the largest-ever private gift to a historically Black college or university: $237 million — far beyond Florida A&M University’s endowment
June 14, 2024
Kids most likely to wind up in the ER due to violence often have common early childhood experiences. Can schools use this information to prevent future injuries?
June 14, 2024
It would have been the largest-ever private gift to a historically Black college or university: $237 million — far beyond Florida A&M University's endowment
June 14, 2024
A report published by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of Indigenous homelands in Colorado, quantifies the value of the land and resources taken and outlines the state education system’s omission of that history in its curriculum
June 14, 2024
South Korea said on Thursday its medical schools will accept almost 1,500 additional students next year, pressing ahead with an admissions hike that has caused trainee
June 14, 2024
A large excavator stretched up and punched out a window on the top floor of a three-story classroom building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland, Florida’s, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as a long-awaited demolition got underway
June 14, 2024
The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students has been temporarily blocked in four states after a federal judge in Louisiana found that it overstepped the Education Department’s authority
June 14, 2024
The California Senate has approved a bill that would ban school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents if their child asks to go by a new pronoun at school
June 13, 2024
Twenty-three sets of twins have graduated from a Massachusetts middle school, making up about 10% of the eighth-grade class
June 13, 2024
The president of California State University, Los Angeles, says demonstrators protesting Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza are no longer welcome on campus after some of them occupied and trashed a building while she was inside
June 13, 2024
It was an emotional graduation ceremony for high school seniors in Newtown, Connecticut
June 13, 2024
Discord from last month's mob attack on pro-Palestinian student activists encamped at the University of California, Los Angeles, flared again on Tuesday as
June 13, 2024
A thousand days have passed since girls in Afghanistan were banned from attending secondary schools
June 13, 2024
If you are a new graduate trying to move away from home and get your start in life: Sorry.
June 12, 2024
The White House on Wednesday unveiled nearly $900 million in awards to 530 school districts to replace thousands of aging, gas-fueled school buses with cleaner, mainly electric models.
June 12, 2024
The demolition of the building where 17 people died in the 2018 Parkland school shooting is set to begin
June 12, 2024
The Apollo Theater is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year
June 12, 2024
The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has tried to assure frustrated senators she is not attempting to cover up the branch’s failure to adequately handle cases of sexual assault and harassment at the service academy in Connecticut
June 11, 2024
Jay-Z is putting his weight behind an effort to fund private school vouchers in Philadelphia
June 11, 2024
The children who survived the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, will be graduating high school with mixed emotions
June 11, 2024
Police have thwarted attempts by pro-Palestinian demonstrators to set up a new encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles
June 11, 2024
U.S. officials are working to bring home four injured instructors from Iowa’s Cornell College who were stabbed in the northeast Chinese city of Jilin where they were teaching
June 11, 2024
A new poll shows relatively few Americans say they’re fans of President Joe Biden’s work on the issue of student loans
June 11, 2024
The Library of Congress is unveiling an eclectic new exhibit drawing on the institution’s vast historical archives and designed to make the Library a more popular and accessible destination for visitors and tourists
June 10, 2024
The NCAA’s recent agreement with the major conferences that sets a path towards schools directly paying athletes could have major consequences for softball
June 10, 2024
Students from Pakistan and other Asian countries are leaving Kyrgyzstan by the hundreds after an angry mob attacked their living quarters this month, although some hope to return
June 10, 2024
DEI programs bolster college students’ sense of identity and belonging. Without these programs, they stand to miss out on crucial learning and career opportunities.
June 10, 2024
Sarah Fillier is ready to shelve her Princeton education and focus on hockey by entering the PWHL draft, where she is projected the No. 1 pick on Monday
June 09, 2024
The head of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) told a U.S.
June 09, 2024
At the primary school in Slovenia's capital where Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic got his start, he's still the hometown hero
June 09, 2024
An Ohio-based Christian nonprofit that organizes off-campus Bible classes for public school students has taken off in Indiana since the state passed legislation forcing school districts to comply
June 09, 2024
Howard University is cutting ties to Sean “Diddy” Combs, rescinding an honorary degree that was awarded to him and disbanding a scholarship program in his name
June 08, 2024
A state judge has ordered academic workers at the University of California to temporarily halt their weekslong strike over the war in Gaza
June 07, 2024
A teenager who was convicted of fatally shooting four students at his high school in Michigan is appealing his life sentence
June 07, 2024
Collaborative research by archaeologists, environmental scientists and tribal elders combines science and Indigenous knowledge to tell the story of centuries of life at a glacier’s edge.
June 07, 2024
The Pop-Tart teaches an entrepreneurial lesson: While first movers may have an advantage, a fast follower often wins the game in the long run.
June 07, 2024
Increased mistrust of the US medical profession and higher mortality rates are two consequences of the lack of Black doctors.
June 06, 2024
A California Supreme Court ruling will allow the University of California to build new student housing at Berkeley’s historic People’s Park
June 06, 2024
It’s hard to start living on your own after turning 18 and aging out of foster care.
June 06, 2024
Fallout is spreading over the impending closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
June 05, 2024
Stanford University says 13 people have been arrested when law enforcement removed pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied a building that houses the university president and provost offices
June 05, 2024
Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from the adults in their lives, often in the form of dire warnings and commands
June 05, 2024
Columbia University has agreed to take additional steps to make its students feel secure on campus
June 04, 2024
A student-run legal journal has been taken offline by its board of directors after it objected to the publication of an article that accused Israel of genocide
June 04, 2024
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
June 04, 2024
Several top White House aides say they are confident protests across U.S. college campuses against Israel's offensive in Gaza will not translate into
June 04, 2024
President Joe Biden's commencement speech at Morehouse College on Sunday was delivered without any interruptions from students or faculty
June 04, 2024
Elijah Hogan came through a senior year of high school in a homeless shelter to make it to the top of his class
June 03, 2024
A tradition of nonpartisanship on locally elected school boards is changing, following a national shift toward divisive political partisanship.
June 03, 2024
Many prenatal supplements don’t have enough folate, choline and omega-3 fatty acids.
June 03, 2024
Prior encounters with police didn’t negatively affect student views of campus police, but perceptions varied among students from different ethnic and racial groups and LGBTQ+ students.
June 03, 2024
Belgium's University of Ghent (UGent) is severing ties with three Israeli educational or research institutions which it says no longer align with UGent's human rights policy, its
June 02, 2024
The nation’s third-largest city is preparing for its first school board elections and the slate of potential candidates includes progressive activists, an afterschool squash program leader and a Grammy-winning rapper
June 02, 2024
Democrats are deeply divided over President Joe Biden's handling of both the war in Gaza and the U.S. campus protests against it, a new Reuters
June 02, 2024
America’s schools have just started making progress toward getting students back on track after they fell behind by historic margins during the pandemic
June 02, 2024
Birmingham-Southern is still swinging
June 01, 2024
A crowd of students protesting the war in Gaza have walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement
June 01, 2024
Private equity firm Roark Capital is exploring a sale of Primrose Schools that could value the U.S. education franchise at nearly $2 billion, including debt
June 01, 2024
The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players and wounded two students
May 31, 2024
Internships significantly boost a college graduate’s chances of getting a job, but securing an internship is a challenge, new research shows.
May 31, 2024
A spokesperson for the University of California, Santa Cruz, says approximately 80 people have been arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration that has been blocking the main campus entrance for days
May 31, 2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday upheld a head scarf ban at secondary schools in Flanders, Belgium's northern region.
May 31, 2024
Police on Wednesday took back a lecture hall from pro-Palestinian protesters who for hours occupied the building at the University of
May 31, 2024
A new federal regulation protecting the rights of transgender students has prompted lawsuits from Republican states that say it would require them to allow transgender athletes to compete on school teams
May 31, 2024
U.S. Census data shows the number of Latinos acquiring degrees has steadily increased over the last two decades
May 31, 2024
Bruhat Soma was unbeatable before he arrived at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and neither the dictionary, nor his competitors, nor a lightning-round tiebreaker challenged him on the way to victory
May 30, 2024
The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization have announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that would allow athletes to play immediately no matter how many times they transfer
May 30, 2024
The special Tony Award that honors educators is going to a Baltimore-based actor, educator, choreographer and Broadway veteran who has created arts opportunities for everyone from kindergartners to senior citizens
May 30, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to a sea of white-capped graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation
May 30, 2024
UConn forward Alex Karaban is returning to school for a try at a third straight national title
May 29, 2024
For years, less than 2% of philanthropic giving in the U.S. has gone to benefit women and girls, but that could change in part thanks to new resources that Melinda French Gates has pledged in recent weeks
May 29, 2024
The Scripps National Spelling Bee had its toughest day of competition with the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds
May 29, 2024
A group of Harvard students said on Tuesday they would peacefully end a pro-Palestinian protest encampment after the university agreed to discuss its endowment with the protesters and
May 29, 2024
Jacqueline Stewart is leaving her post leading the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to return to the University of Chicago
May 29, 2024
At least one positive came out of the racial protests during the Vietnam War era – the emergence of Black studies programs on college campuses.
May 29, 2024
About 7 in 10 AAPI adults approve of K-12 public schools teaching about the history of slavery, racism and segregation
May 29, 2024
Home visiting programs are providing a lifeline for families, especially those for whom access to quality early education is scarce or out of reach financially
May 29, 2024
China's Ministry of Education said on Tuesday it was launching a campaign to address issues including excessive homework and bullying in schools, as part of efforts to boost
May 29, 2024
Britain should avoid further restricting international student numbers or some universities may collapse, a government commissioned report said on Tuesday, after
May 29, 2024
A four-letter word sent Shradha Rachamreddy to a third-place finish in last year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee
May 28, 2024
Wayne State University in Detroit has suspended in-person classes and encouraged staff to work remotely
May 28, 2024
Erin’s Law requires the teaching of child sexual abuse and exploitation prevention classes from kindergarten through eighth grade. How it got adopted by 34 states is the story of one woman’s crusade.
May 28, 2024
Pupils sitting cross-legged on the sand take classes in a tent near Khan Younis in Gaza.
May 28, 2024
A report by the United Nations says that as economies in Asia and the Pacific slow and grow older, countries need to do more to ensure that workers get the education, training and social safety nets needed to raise incomes and ensure social equity
May 28, 2024
When Jose Trevino took a teen leadership class taught by Sherri Davis in high school the New York Yankees catcher couldn’t have imagined the long-lasting impact it would have
May 27, 2024
Dozens of students walked out of Duke University's commencement ceremony on Sunday as some chanted "free Palestine" to protest its guest speaker, comedian Jerry Seinfeld, who has supported
May 27, 2024
Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin called on his alma mater Harvard University on Saturday to embrace "Western values", saying that the turmoil across college campuses was the product of
May 27, 2024
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two
May 26, 2024
An evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California, is considering revisions to its sexual standards
May 26, 2024
In the three tumultuous weeks since protests broke out at U.S. universities, police have descended on dozens of campuses to sweep up students in mass arrests, adhering to
May 26, 2024
Since 1999, 28 of the last 34 Scripps National Spelling Bee champions have been Indian American
May 26, 2024
North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor Mark Robinson delivered a speech focused on the economy and education at the NCGOP Convention's Old North State Dinner in Greensboro Saturday
May 26, 2024
A conservative University of Wisconsin regent says he won't step down when his term ends this month
May 25, 2024
A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the
May 25, 2024
A new South Dakota Board of Regents policy keeps employees from including their gender pronouns in school email signatures and other correspondence
May 24, 2024
An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly taking part in a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, last month
May 24, 2024
Workers at a Georgia school bus manufacturer have approved their first union contract
May 24, 2024
A U.S. congressional committee on China has asked leading research university Georgia Institute of Technology to detail its collaboration with a Chinese
May 24, 2024
Political discussions on campus can be a lot more productive if the right expectations are set.
May 24, 2024
The athlete pay system looming for college sports will bring questions about Title IX, the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination for schools that receive federal funds
May 24, 2024
The NCAA and five major college sports conferences have agreed to settle antitrust allegations for nearly $2.8 billion over the next 10 years
May 23, 2024
A federal judge has not issued an immediate ruling after hearing legal arguments over whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Black high school student in Texas over his hairstyle
May 23, 2024
Thousands of older Americans are in adult day services that provide safe, stimulating places for those who have physical or cognitive disabilities and also give respite to their caregiver
May 23, 2024
Everyone wants to raise kind children, but telling kids to be nice gets you only so far − young people need to practice those skills with their peers.
May 23, 2024
In the 1980s, university administrators called the police on anti-apartheid protesters, threatened to revoke their scholarships and ordered staff to demolish encampments.
May 23, 2024
Hundreds of students in graduation robes walked out of the Harvard commencement chanting “Free, free Palestine” after weeks of protests on campus
May 23, 2024
Protesters packed up and left a pro-Palestinian encampment at Philadelphia’s Drexel University after the school announced a decision to have police clear the encampment
May 23, 2024
The presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers universities have come to Capitol Hill to defend their decisions to end pro-Palestinian encampments through negotiations rather than police force
May 23, 2024
A book presentation about neoclassical economic theory may not sound like a crowd-pleaser
May 23, 2024
Buyout firm Bain Capital is in talks to take education-software provider PowerSchool private, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
May 22, 2024
Australia said on Wednesday it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student
May 22, 2024
The police chief at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been reassigned amid criticism of his handling of campus demonstrations
May 22, 2024
The White House said the behavior captured in a video at the University of Mississippi is "undignified and racist", after a student was accused of mocking a Black protestor by
May 22, 2024
Many high school students in the United States are sensitive to the ongoing climate crisis, and some are demanding more paths that allow them to work on solutions to the planet's warming
May 22, 2024
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 160,000 borrowers through a combination of existing programs
May 22, 2024
Belgium's Princess Elisabeth will attend Harvard University later this year to study for a two year Master's degree in public policy, said the Belgian Royal Palace on Tuesday.
May 22, 2024
Sen. Cory Booker says prisoners should be learning professional skills that help prepare them for their release instead of being forced to work
May 22, 2024
A former University of Arizona graduate student has been convicted of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a professor on campus two years ago
May 21, 2024
After decades in the shadows, Asian American studies has expanded on college campuses.
May 21, 2024
Police have broken up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan less than a week after demonstrators showed up at the home of a school official and placed fake body bags on her lawn
May 21, 2024
A group of 13 conservative U.S. federal judges said on Monday that they would not hire law students or undergraduates from Columbia University in response
May 21, 2024
Los Angeles police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California without making arrests on Sunday following turmoil at
May 20, 2024
A Maine woman is appealing the dismissal of her lawsuit that accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression by providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting her
May 20, 2024
Billionaire philanthropist Rob Hale has surprised the graduating class at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth by giving each of them $1,000
May 20, 2024
University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that would cost the NCAA nearly $3 billion
May 20, 2024
Graduate students at the University of California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike Monday
May 20, 2024
Drexel University in Philadelphia is threatening to clear an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters as arrests linked to campus demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war surpassed the 3,000 mark nationwide
May 20, 2024
Student-led protests in response to US engagement in the Vietnam War mounted in the 1960s and led to a group called the Weather Underground that believed in direct confrontation with the state.
May 20, 2024
One community college created a science pathway program that boasts a 100% employment rate for graduates.
May 20, 2024
Student protests over the war in Gaza have swept the U.S. in past weeks, with police clearing a number of encampments, at times after confrontations between protesters and counter-
May 20, 2024
Ahead of the University of Michigan's commencement on Saturday, the school has trained staff volunteers in how to mitigate disruptions: a change from the usual duties of
May 20, 2024
Closing arguments are scheduled for Monday in the trial of a former University of Arizona graduate student accused of killing a professor on campus two years ago
May 19, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a new encampment at Drexel University in Philadelphia over the weekend, prompting a lockdown of school buildings, a day after authorities thwarted an attempted occupation of a school building at the neighboring University of Pennsylvania campus
May 19, 2024
Colleges and universities have long been protected places for free expression without pressure or punishment
May 19, 2024
Hundreds of people protesting Israel's war in Gaza rallied at one of Australia's top universities on Friday demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel,
May 19, 2024
President Joe Biden has offered his most direct recognition of the anguish American college students are feeling over the Israel-Hamas war
May 19, 2024
Authorities say a half-dozen University of Pennsylvania students were among 19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during an attempt to occupy a building on campus
May 18, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies linked to Israel have spread across U.S. universities in the two weeks since Columbia University
May 18, 2024
Biden has spoken to Black leaders at the National Museum of African American History and Culture about the 70th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated schools
May 17, 2024
A Vermont university has bestowed the honorary degree of “doctor of litter-ature” on a cat named Max who has become a beloved member of its community
May 17, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waded into the debate over U.S. college campus protests on Thursday, saying authorities were displaying "cruelty" in clamping down on pro-
May 17, 2024
Paris' Sciences Po university has rejected demands by protesters to review its relations with Israeli universities, its interim director Jean Basseres said on
May 17, 2024
The government of the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe will ask Portugal to repair the moral damages caused by colonialism, the country's education
May 17, 2024
A federal lawsuit argues the way representatives are elected to a local school board in Pennsylvania's coal region is unfairly shutting Latino voters out of power
May 17, 2024
Seventy years after the Supreme Court's Brown v
May 17, 2024
As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board, one of its most significant side effects − the large-scale loss of Black teachers − continues to affect America’s schools.
May 16, 2024
The building that Columbia University protesters seized early on Tuesday morning, Hamilton Hall, has a history of student takeovers over the decades.
May 16, 2024
The World Bank has urged the largest Pacific Island nation, Papua New Guinea, to address a "human capital crisis" and invest more in educating children, who suffer
May 16, 2024
In the South African township where Luke Fleurs grew up, some friends joined gangs before they reached high school age, but Fleurs found another path: he was
May 16, 2024
A group of children holding red, yellow and blue balloons – the colors of Colombia's flag – run to the playground of a newly-opened school built
May 16, 2024
Escalating campus protests are forcing U.S.
May 16, 2024
Police have dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at DePaul University in Chicago
May 16, 2024
Students in windowless rooms are reporting anxiety, depression and fatigue. A professor of architecture says developers need to let the light shine in.
May 16, 2024
A South Korean court has ruled in favor of the government’s contentious plan to drastically boost medical school admissions
May 16, 2024
The school system in Topeka, Kansas, was at the center of the landmark Brown v
May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden will have his most direct engagement with college students since the start of the Israel-Hamas war when he speaks at Morehouse College's commencement
May 16, 2024
Violent clashes erupted on Wednesday on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) between pro-Palestinian protesters and a group of counter-demonstrators,
May 16, 2024
Hena Khan, a grade nine student in Dhaka, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 43 degrees Celsius (109 degrees Fahrenheit
May 16, 2024
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the approval of more than $6.1 billion in student loan debt relief for nearly 317,000 borrowers who were enrolled at any Art Institute
May 16, 2024
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a measure that could have earmarked up to $5 million for certain gun-detection software in schools
May 15, 2024
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker may have stirred controversy for his proclamations of conservative politics and Catholicism, but he received a standing ovation at the May 11 commencement ceremony at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas
May 15, 2024
As students across the nation consider jobs that play a role in solving the climate crisis, they’re looking for meaningful climate training
May 15, 2024
A philosopher and a psychologist break down the challenges of finding purposeful work that also pays well.
May 15, 2024
Among her 5 decades of accomplishments, Nightingale founded the world’s first nursing school and advocated health care for all.
May 15, 2024
A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed at least five
May 15, 2024
In the days since police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University on April 18, a protest encampment has been re-established on the New York campus and
May 15, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday he was "troubled" by heavy-handed actions taken by U.S. security forces during attempts to break up pro-Palestinian protests on college
May 15, 2024
Protests at U.S. universities showed no sign of slowing over the weekend, with more arrests on campuses across the country and skirmishes
May 15, 2024
A first-year U.S. Naval Academy student has stood victorious on classmates' shoulders and placed an upperclassman’s cap atop the Herndon Monument after a grueling, slippery struggle
May 15, 2024
Seventy years ago this week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled separating children in schools by race was unconstitutional
May 15, 2024
Nine Republican-led states and several conservative groups on Monday filed lawsuits challenging new Biden administration regulations that bar schools and colleges that
May 14, 2024
Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw
May 14, 2024
Dorothy Jean Tillman's participation in Arizona State University’s May 6 commencement was the latest step on a higher-education journey the Chicago teen started when she took her first college course at age 10
May 14, 2024
Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday to protest against the war in Gaza,
May 14, 2024
The University of Amsterdam has canceled classes and shut buildings for two days after the latest demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive
May 14, 2024
The first full week of the upcoming college football season will feature a Saturday tripleheader on ABC, including Texas A&M hosting Notre Dame in prime time
May 14, 2024
The Philippines has closed schools down and warned of overloading on its power grid, as authorities across Southeast Asia issued a series of health alerts for
May 14, 2024
War is wreaking havoc on land, water and critical infrastructure in Ukraine and Gaza. Two experts on peace and conflict explain how to include such impacts in peace agreements.
May 14, 2024
Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday despite a heatwave continuing to sweep the South Asian nation, with temperatures expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104
May 14, 2024
Appeal judges are having doubts about whether they can rule on a transgender woman’s admission into a University of Wyoming sorority
May 14, 2024
Child care has long been expensive for families, hard to find and financially precarious for day care owners and workers
May 14, 2024
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law regulating transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings
May 13, 2024
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted to cut diversity program funding for next year's budget starting July 1
May 13, 2024
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests
May 13, 2024
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far
May 13, 2024
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far
May 12, 2024
Schools across the U.S. are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence and video cameras to spot guns
May 12, 2024
The University of Southern California (USC) said on Thursday it has called off its main-stage graduation ceremony this year, one week after canceling the valedictorian speech by a Muslim
May 11, 2024
Small pro-Palestinian protests are popping up sporadically as colleges and universities hold commencement services
May 11, 2024
First lady Jill Biden is telling graduates of an Arizona community college to tune out the people who tell them what they can't do
May 11, 2024
Many college and city leaders have blamed outside organizers for recent protests at universities around the country against U.S. support of Israel’s war in Gaza
May 11, 2024
A pro-Palestinian U.S. group filed a federal civil rights complaint against Columbia University following last week's mass arrest of anti-war protesters after
May 11, 2024
A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school four years after the names were removed
May 10, 2024
Police have made dozens of arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona
May 10, 2024
Some universities are vowing to provide information about how much university endowment money is invested in companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war amid calls from pro-Palestinian protesters
May 10, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has recorded a video commencement message that is being played for graduates at historically Black colleges and universities across the country this spring
May 09, 2024
A new report finds fewer U.S. medical school graduates are applying to residency programs, but the drop is more pronounced in states that ban abortion compared with other states
May 09, 2024
Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday’s planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield
May 09, 2024
Police say suspected militants bombed a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure
May 09, 2024
Divestment from Israel may violate state laws – at least for public institutions. Private universities with large endowments may face other obstacles.
May 09, 2024
Some U.S. students at Washington, D.C.'s Jackson-Reed High School filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging the public high school's administrators censored them
May 09, 2024
These books shine light on a rich history of campus protests in the US that goes back to the 1960s.
May 09, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday "more has to be done" to stop pro-Palestinian protests that have spread across U.S. campuses in recent weeks.
May 09, 2024
A Chinese music student was sentenced on Wednesday to nine months in a U.S. prison for harassing an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in
May 09, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday announced new rules limiting the sugar and sodium content of meals served to millions of children at U.S. public schools.
May 09, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is calling for an end to “antisemitic abuse” at U.K. universities as protests against the war in Gaza expand and the government tries to prevent the type of unrest seen on American campuses in recent weeks
May 09, 2024
Republican Attorney General Dave Yost has advised Ohio's public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings during pro-Palestinian protests
May 08, 2024
Colleges and universities are having a difficult time hiring, recruiting and retaining members of their athletic training staffs because of a number of below-market conditions, a survey shows
May 08, 2024
In sometimes violent confrontations, police have broken up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza
May 08, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities,
May 08, 2024
Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow the state's teachers to carry concealed handguns at school, as protesters yelled their opposition from the
May 08, 2024
Distress about the Earth’s future is driving many young people to act
May 08, 2024
Florida’s school safety data dashboard is one of the most comprehensive in the US. A school safety researcher explains how schools and parents can use it.
May 08, 2024
Republicans are welcoming a police crackdown that cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and led to the arrests of 33 protesters
May 08, 2024
The decision by Boy Scouts of America to rebrand after 114 years and become Scouting America marks another major shakeup for an organization that once proudly resisted change
May 08, 2024
Leaders of three large public school systems strongly denied allegations that they let antisemitism run rampant
May 08, 2024
The head of Columbia Law School backed its graduates on Tuesday, saying they were "consistently sought out" as it responded to an announcement by 13
May 07, 2024
Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America achieved a vaunted status in the United States
May 07, 2024
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history
May 07, 2024
Police began dispersing pro-Palestinian protesters at the Swiss university of ETH Zurich on Tuesday, management said, after student demonstrations spread to campuses in
May 07, 2024
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression without consulting her
May 07, 2024
More than 3 million children in the US are homeschooled. Are they getting a good education?
May 07, 2024
Struggling to give teachers meaningful raises, some school districts are adding a new perk — subsidized, on-site child care for their kids
May 07, 2024
Police in riot gear blocked access to the University of Chicago’s Quad early Tuesday
May 07, 2024
Florida’s university system,
May 07, 2024
The University of California, Berkeley was sued on Tuesday by Jewish groups who said it has become a hotbed of "unchecked" antisemitism, including at its elite law
May 07, 2024
Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the "N-word" countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on
May 07, 2024
The principal of a school in a small Iowa town who was injured during a shooting on campus at the beginning of the month died on Sunday, his family said.
May 07, 2024
The University of Southern California announced there will be no outside speakers and honorees at this year's main commencement ceremony after canceling its valedictorian
May 07, 2024
After AP's Pulitzer Prize-finalist investigation, a family of Atlanta kids struggling to enroll in school returned to class last month
May 06, 2024
U.S. university presidents have joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis for a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz
May 06, 2024
Students in Belgium and the Netherlands occupied parts of the universities of Ghent and
May 06, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked by police from accessing an encampment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology broke through fencing to retake the area, as Columbia University canceled its university-wide commencement ceremony following weeks of demonstrations
May 06, 2024
When students get unqualified teachers, it’s like missing one-third of the school year – and that’s what’s been happening with rural students in Texas.
May 06, 2024
Students protesting the war in Gaza left their camp at the University of Southern California without major incident after they were surrounded by police and threatened with arrest
May 05, 2024
Weekend commencement ceremonies at some U.S. universities went off with few interruptions despite the national wave of protests over the Israel-Hamas war
May 04, 2024
Twenty-five people have been arrested for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus
May 04, 2024
Analysis shows news stories on pro-Palestinian demonstrations at US universities spiked when they involved clashes.
May 04, 2024
Israel-Hamas war demonstrations at the University of Mississippi turned ugly when one counter-protester appeared to make monkey noises and gestures at a Black woman
May 03, 2024
The NCAA and major college conferences are considering a possible settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that could cost them billions in damages and force schools to share athletics-related revenue with their athletes
May 03, 2024
Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970
May 03, 2024
Some Jewish students have taken part in strident pro-Palestinian protests dominating U.S. colleges in recent weeks, but few have led rallies in support of Israel or against perceived displays of antisemitism
May 03, 2024
Traumatised 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war
May 03, 2024
Police in Paris entered France's prestigious Sciences Po university on Friday and removed student activists who had occupied its
May 03, 2024
Demonstrations have ceased at a small number of U.S. universities after school leaders struck deals with pro-Palestinian protesters
May 03, 2024
Some U.S. universities with weekend graduation ceremonies are taking steps to contain any disruptions amid tension over the Israel-Hamas war
May 03, 2024
Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature has completed a last-ditch effort to revive a bill to regulate transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings
May 02, 2024
Global Citizen NOW says it wants 2024 conference attendees to invest long-term in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increase outreach to young changemakers
May 02, 2024
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says her state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools
May 02, 2024
Wisconsin authorities are promising a thorough investigation into a police shooting that they said killed an armed student outside a middle school
May 02, 2024
A wave of student protests has spread across U.S. campuses over the last two weeks, led by students who have pitched tents or occupied buildings in protest of the Israel-Hamas war
May 02, 2024
Although it might be tempting to compare the U.S. campus protests to the anti-Vietnam War movement of a half century ago, experts say that would be an overreaction at this point
May 02, 2024
Jill Biden has honored her fellow educators by hosting the 2024 national and state teachers of the year at a swanky White House dinner to recognize their commitment to their students and to excellence in the classroom
May 02, 2024
Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several colleges on Thursday, including taking down an encampment
May 02, 2024
The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000
May 02, 2024
An expert on the Columbia University protests of 1968 draws parallels between protests then and the ones taking place there in 2024.
May 02, 2024
Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests
May 02, 2024
President Joe Biden is rejecting calls from student protesters to change his approach to the war in Gaza while insisting that “order must prevail” on college campuses across the country
May 02, 2024
Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks
May 02, 2024
Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building
May 01, 2024
The House has passed legislation that would establish a broader definition of antisemitism for the Department of Education to enforce anti-discrimination laws
May 01, 2024
Koby Brea, who led the nation in 3-point shooting for Dayton, has announced he will play his final season at Kentucky
May 01, 2024
Utah educators have been rushing to prepare students and staff as the state starts cracking down on any public school found not enforcing new bathroom restrictions for transgender individuals
May 01, 2024
A student protest movement has washed over the country since police first tried to end an encampment at Columbia University in New York nearly two weeks ago
May 01, 2024
The bungled rollout of a new federal student aid form has left millions of students in limbo and some wondering if their college dreams will survive
May 01, 2024
Announcements broadcasted on the University of California, Los Angeles campus have told demonstrators to disperse or they would be arrested and face a misdemeanor charge
May 01, 2024
The Biden administration says it'll cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges that closed the last of its campuses in 2023 amid accusations of fraud
May 01, 2024
An agreement between anti-war protesters and Northwestern University has largely ended demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on the suburban Chicago campus
May 01, 2024
House Republicans are investigating the federal funding for universities where students have protested the Israel-Hamas war
April 30, 2024
Columbia University has announced that it is canceling its main commencement ceremony scheduled for next week because of ongoing pro-Palestinian protests
April 30, 2024
Another six Republican states are piling on to challenge the Biden administration’s newly expanded campus sexual assault rules, saying they overstep the president’s authority and undermine the Title IX anti-discrimination law
April 30, 2024
Borrowers with some types of federal student loans have until today to consolidate their loans to qualify for full student loan cancellation or credit toward cancellation
April 30, 2024
It turns out that identifying as a reader can be more about community, wealth and gender than how much someone actually reads.
April 30, 2024
A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia, tracking their family histories and heart rates as they navigated daily life.
April 30, 2024
A professor shows science students how humanities classes are the real stem that other disciplines sprout from. They learn that critical thinking and skepticism don’t stop when they leave the lab.
April 30, 2024
A growing number of cities are passing tax increases to expand access to child care
April 30, 2024
Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year
April 30, 2024
Police have cleared 30 to 40 people from inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the administration building in New York earlier in the day
April 30, 2024
The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged from a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland
April 29, 2024
Dozens of students have gathered near the Sorbonne university in Paris to protest in support of the Palestinians, echoing similar demonstrations on campuses in the United States
April 29, 2024
Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll
April 29, 2024
Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change
April 29, 2024
Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters
April 28, 2024
Hundreds of students around the country are being arrested, suspended, put on probation and, in rare cases, expelled from their colleges for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations
April 28, 2024
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States have peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university after days of tensions
April 27, 2024
Student anti-war protesters at U.S. universities are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while several school faculties have condemned university presidents for calling law enforcement
April 27, 2024
For many in the graduating class of 2024, the unrest at campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war has marked an emotional end to their college experiences that started amid a pandemic
April 27, 2024
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
April 26, 2024
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are digging in at Columbia University for a 10th day, part of a number of demonstrations roiling campuses from California to Connecticut
April 26, 2024
A U.S. congressional committee on Wednesday accused Columbia University's president of failing to protect Jewish students on campus, echoing accusations leveled against
April 26, 2024
A solid majority of U.S. teachers go to work each day anxious that a shooting will unfold at their school, a trend that has paralleled the rising number of such incidents across the U.S.,
April 26, 2024
Pupils across Russia have taken part in a history quiz this month that involved watching extracts of President Vladimir Putin's interview
April 26, 2024
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law on Wednesday a ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools, making the state one of a few to enact broad measures against
April 26, 2024
New York University said it has moved "decisively" to root out antisemitism on its campus, and that a lawsuit by Jewish students claiming they have been
April 26, 2024
Florida and LGBTQ advocates on Monday settled a lawsuit over a state law on classroom instruction that grants teachers freedom to discuss sexual orientation and gender
April 26, 2024
Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and Vanderbilt universities have agreed to pay a combined $166 million to resolve claims that they favored wealthy student applicants,
April 26, 2024
Yale University said on Thursday it would reinstate a requirement that applicants submit standardized test scores after a four-year hiatus for the COVID-19 pandemic,
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration said on Wednesday it is cancelling $1.2 billion worth of student loans for some 153,000 people who are eligible under a
April 26, 2024
Two transgender Virginia public school students on Thursday sued the state over recent guidance that prevents transgender students from competing on sports teams
April 26, 2024
A Massachusetts judge on Monday dismissed lawsuits by families accusing Harvard of mishandling the bodies of loved ones that were donated to its medical school and
April 26, 2024
Google has pledged 25 million euros ($26.98 million) to help people in Europe learn to use artificial intelligence (AI).
April 26, 2024
The mother of a Michigan boy who shot dead four high-school classmates in 2021 finished testifying in her own defense on Friday ahead of closing arguments in a novel trial to determine
April 26, 2024
Billionaire investor Kenneth Griffin, who has donated more than half a billion dollars to Harvard University, has halted his giving to the school over how it handled
April 26, 2024
A federal appeals court on Monday declined to block the U.S. Military Academy at West Point from considering race as a factor in admissions decisions, as the U.S.
April 26, 2024
As many as one in 10 hate crimes in the U.S. take place at schools - from kindergarten through college - according to an FBI report released on Monday, with Black students the
April 26, 2024
Over a dozen students alleged on Monday that Harvard University failed to protect them from harassment and threats "based solely" on their pro-Palestinian
April 26, 2024
A Chinese music student was convicted on Thursday of U.S. charges that he harassed an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting
April 26, 2024
Harvard University on Friday urged a judge in Boston to dismiss lawsuits by families accusing it of mishandling the bodies of loved ones that were donated to its
April 26, 2024
Microsoft-backed OpenAI has signed a deal with Arizona State University as the ChatGPT owner looks to expand its partnerships beyond technology and media firms.
April 26, 2024
Florida's public university system will decide next Wednesday whether to ban diversity spending and remove sociology classes as a way to fulfill social-science course requirements, a week
April 26, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released its report on the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that saw 19 young students and two teachers killed.
April 26, 2024
U.S. edutech platform Coursera added a new user every minute on average for its artificial intelligence courses in 2023,
April 26, 2024
Harvard President Claudine Gay said she would resign from her position on Tuesday, ending a six-month tenure marred by allegations of
April 26, 2024
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit against Grand Canyon University for deceptive advertising and illegal telemarketing.
April 26, 2024
The group behind the successful U.S. Supreme Court challenge to race-conscious college admissions policies urged a federal judge on Thursday to block the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Harvard University's president was planning to submit three corrections to her 1997 dissertation after a committee investigating plagiarism allegations against her
April 26, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by female former high school track team members challenging a Connecticut policy that allows transgender girls to
April 26, 2024
The head of Israel's main Holocaust memorial centre has welcomed criticism levelled at three top U.S. university presidents over their comments on campus antisemitism but said an
April 26, 2024
University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has "tendered her resignation" from her position, according to a message sent on Saturday by the chair of the institution's board
April 26, 2024
The governing body of the University of Pennsylvania's influential Wharton business school has joined a growing chorus calling on Penn's president to resign after what
April 26, 2024
The University of Nevada at Las Vegas will stay shut on Thursday as authorities work to understand why a shooter opened fire on campus, killing three people and wounding a fourth as
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday his administration had approved $4.8 billion in student debt cancellation for 80,300 people.
April 26, 2024
In the past week, two University of Arizona educators were suspended and a University of Southern California professor was relegated to teaching remotely while the school
April 26, 2024
Northwestern University's Prison Education Program welcomed its inaugural graduating class of incarcerated students on Wednesday, marking the first time a top-ranked U.S. university has
April 26, 2024
The American Civil Liberties Union challenged Florida's ban on pro-Palestinian university groups, arguing in a federal lawsuit on Thursday that the state is violating
April 26, 2024
Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Cornell University student for allegedly making online threats against Jewish students at the Ivy League school over the weekend.
April 26, 2024
The White House on Monday expressed concern at reports of antisemitic threats at Cornell University in response to the Israel-Hamas crisis in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Biden administration officials voiced alarm at data showing a rise in anti-Jewish incidents at U.S. universities and planned to meet American Jewish leaders on
April 26, 2024
Schools will move to an online regime starting Monday in Ukraine's central city of Vinnytsia after a Hepatitis A outbreak sent scores of children and adults to the hospital, the country's
April 26, 2024
Harvard University's endowment fund, the world's largest university endowment, posted a small investment gain that bested several other top U.S. universities' returns but saw the
April 26, 2024
A federal judge has allowed an Idaho law requiring public-school students to use the bathroom corresponding to their assigned sex at birth to take effect, while also
April 26, 2024
A pro-Palestinian statement from Harvard University students that blamed Israel for violence engulfing the region does not speak for the educational
April 26, 2024
A group founded by a prominent anti-affirmative action activist on Wednesday dropped a lawsuit challenging a U.S. law firm's fellowship program designed to help bolster
April 26, 2024
Prominent Harvard University alumni on Monday denounced a pro-Palestinian statement from students that blamed
April 26, 2024
The group that successfully challenged race-conscious college admissions policies at the U.S. Supreme Court sued the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Former University of Southern California campus gynecologist George Tyndall, who was accused of sexually assaulting patients under the guise of treatment
April 26, 2024
A private equity firm founder who was one of the first parents to face trial on charges arising out of a vast U.S. college admissions scandal was re-sentenced on
April 26, 2024
The University of Southern California's decision to cancel its main graduation ceremony has left students and alumni stunned as protests spread on campuses nationwide
April 25, 2024
One of the demands of antiwar protestors on college campuses is for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that are profiting from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza
April 25, 2024
Israel-Hamas war demonstrations that began at Columbia University last week have spawned a nationwide movement
April 25, 2024
Authorities in Maryland say a high school athletic director used artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording
April 25, 2024
A Pennsylvania school district has reversed the cancellation of an appearance by actor and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy
April 25, 2024
A Miami nightclub owner and restaurateur has been adding star power to his class on entrepreneurship and hospitality.
April 25, 2024
The NFL will expand its international search for talent by opening an academy in rugby-mad Australia to develop promising teenagers in the Asia-Pacific region into college and pro prospects
April 25, 2024
Venezuela’s government has repeatedly broken its promise to provide vaccines against HPV for free, and many public-school teachers ignore the requirement to teach sex ed
April 25, 2024
With graduations looming, student protesters continue to doubled down on their discontent of the Israel-Hamas war on campuses across the country as universities, including ones in California and Texas, have become quick to call in the police to end the demonstrations and make arrests
April 25, 2024
Columbia University President Minouche Shafik's leadership is under fire
April 25, 2024
Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses after the arrest of demonstrators at Columbia University
April 24, 2024
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says the state will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on an appeals court ruling that allowed a transgender athlete to compete on her middle school teams
April 24, 2024
Some public school teachers could gain new powers to bring concealed guns into Tennessee schools
April 24, 2024
Besides being an accomplished actor, John Lithgow is a Harvard graduate who was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of the Arts
April 24, 2024
Reggie Bush has been reinstated as the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner more than a decade after Southern California returned the award following an NCAA investigation that found he received what were impermissible benefits during his time with the Trojans
April 24, 2024
The names of thousands of people held in Japanese American incarceration camps during World War II will be digitized and made available for free on Ancestry
April 24, 2024
Columbia University students heckled U.S.
April 24, 2024
Affordable access to high-speed internet brings educational opportunities, economic development and better access to health professionals.
April 24, 2024
U.S. agriculture officials announced new nutrition standards for school meals that will limit added sugars for the first time
April 24, 2024
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
An effort to limit diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is gaining momentum in state capitals and college campuses
April 24, 2024
A worsening budget crisis at Argentina's public universities is sending thousands of protestors into the streets as libertarian President Javier Milei pushes ahead with radical austerity measures
April 23, 2024
Tennessee Republican lawmakers have passed a bill that would let some teachers and staff carry concealed handguns on public school grounds
April 23, 2024
President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker for Georgia's Morehouse College next month
April 23, 2024
The university that boasts the world’s largest 3D printer developed one even bigger
April 23, 2024
Not all teachers comply when asked to adjust student grades. An education scholar takes a look at what happens when they don’t.
April 23, 2024
Columbia University’s main campus will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester amid protests over Israel’s war with Hamas that have roiled colleges across the U.S. University officials announced the move late Monday after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s New York City campus were arrested last week
April 23, 2024
A new federal rule seeks to clarify that a law against sex discrimination at schools includes gender identity, too
April 23, 2024
The high costs and limited availability of quality child care are holding back American moms without college degrees
April 23, 2024
What I teach Harvard Law School students about the importance of opening arguments and how a majority of jurors make up their minds about a case after hearing them.
April 22, 2024
Columbia University has canceled in-person classes and police have arrested dozens of students at Yale University as tensions on college campuses across the country continues to grow over the war in the Middle East
April 22, 2024
Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
April 22, 2024
Authorities say an 18-year-old woman died after she was shot on the campus of Delaware State University
April 21, 2024
Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable
April 20, 2024
The University of Southern California is further shaking up its commencement plans
April 20, 2024
The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed proposed tax breaks for anti-abortion counseling centers while allowing restrictions on college diversity initiatives to become law without her signature
April 19, 2024
A California court will hear arguments Friday in a lawsuit alleging the state attorney general misled the public in a title and summary he released for a proposed ballot measure that would require school staff to notify parents if their child asks to change gender identification at schools
April 19, 2024
The superintendent and several other top officials of a Pennsylvania school district say their school board's cancellation of a gay actor's visit to a middle school was premature and ill-advised
April 19, 2024
Ethics is often neglected in engineering education, two researchers write, despite mounting questions about how to responsibly design artificial intelligence programs.
April 19, 2024
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to achieve a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon
April 19, 2024
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under new rules from the Biden administration
April 19, 2024
The 12 students and one teacher killed in the Columbine High School shooting will be remembered in a vigil on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the tragedy
April 19, 2024
A Pennsylvania school district has canceled an upcoming appearance by actor and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy
April 18, 2024
New York police have arrested numerous protesters at Columbia University who had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment
April 18, 2024
Virginia’s governor has signed a law that allows state colleges and universities to directly pay athletes through name, image and likeness endorsement deals
April 18, 2024
A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
April 18, 2024
Thousands of Black college students expected this weekend for an annual spring bash at Georgia's largest public beach shouldn't expect a warm welcome
April 18, 2024
A quarter of a century after the Columbine High School shooting, the trauma from the attack has remained with survivors
April 18, 2024
A Tennessee judge is weighing whether to allow the release of a Nashville school shooter's writings after a two-day hearing concluded Wednesday
April 17, 2024
NCAA athletes will be immediately eligible to play no matter how many times they transfer — as long as they meet academic requirements
April 17, 2024
Diversity, equity and inclusion staff members' jobs in North Carolina's public university system could be at risk
April 17, 2024
Four months after a contentious congressional hearing led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, Columbia University’s president is set to appear before the same committee over questions of antisemitism and the school’s response to escalating conflicts on campus
April 17, 2024
She's cemented her place as a college basketball legend
April 16, 2024
The University of Southern California has canceled a commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian, a Muslim student who has expressed support for Palestinians, citing substantial security risks for the event that draws 65,000 people to campus
April 16, 2024
A federal appeals court has overturned a West Virginia transgender sports ban, finding that the law violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools
April 16, 2024
President Joe Biden’s latest plan for student loan cancellation is moving forward as a proposed regulation, offering him a fresh chance to deliver on a campaign promise and energize young voters ahead of the November election
April 16, 2024
American Olympic athletes have a new place to turn to lock down college degrees and other skills for life after sports thanks to a partnership U.S. Olympic leaders unveiled with the Denver-based education company Guild
April 16, 2024
Nine-year-old Cal Clifford had always wanted a pet octopus
April 15, 2024
Cancel culture leads to educational detriments that can harm democracy.
April 15, 2024
The education technology sector constantly offers new products to solve old problems. Will anything be different this time?
April 15, 2024
In elementary school, Caitlin Clark wrote down her dreams and goals that included playing in the WNBA one day
April 15, 2024
Two former Kentucky swim team members have sued the school, former coach Lars Jorgensen and athletic director Mitch Barnhart, alleging sexual assaults including rape by the former coach and claiming the school “purposefully” disregarded multiple credible reports of inappropriate sexual relationships
April 13, 2024
A University of Michigan proposal aimed at deterring disruptions on its Ann Arbor campus after anti-Israel protesters interrupted an honors convocation is sparking backlash from free speech advocates
April 13, 2024
Texas' ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education has resulted in more than 100 job cuts at University of Texas campuses across the state
April 13, 2024
The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education
April 13, 2024
The Biden administration is canceling student loans for another 206,000 borrowers as part of a new repayment plan that offers a faster route to forgiveness
April 12, 2024
When O.J. Simpson's death from prostate cancer was announced, the University of Southern California made no public acknowledgement of it
April 12, 2024
Prosecutors in Virginia say that a criminal investigation into staff members at a school where a 6-year-old shot his teacher will continue
April 11, 2024
If the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan persists, consequences could include higher rates of abuse, the spread of extremism and billions of dollars in economic loss.
April 11, 2024
A grand jury report says a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school ignored warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher
April 10, 2024
Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal sites for low-income kids
April 10, 2024
Vermont's Goddard College is closing at the end of the semester after years of declining enrollment and financial struggles
April 10, 2024
A report from a senior doctor in England says children who question their gender identity are being let down by lack of evidence and a toxic political debate
April 10, 2024
Tara VanDerveer, the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, has announced her retirement after 38 seasons leading the Stanford women’s team and 45 overall
April 10, 2024
Another group of Republican-led states is suing to block the Biden administration’s new student loan repayment plan, which offers a faster path to cancellation and has been used to forgive loans for more than 150,000 borrowers
April 09, 2024
The mother of an autistic boy shown being hit and punched by a school bus aide released a copy of bus surveillance video
April 09, 2024
Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth
April 09, 2024
A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been indicted on eight felony counts of child neglect in the case of a 6-year-old boy who shot and wounded his first-grade teacher in Newport News, Virginia, last year
April 09, 2024
John Calipari says he is stepping down as Kentucky's men’s basketball coach after 15 years
April 09, 2024
Across the country, book bans and attempted bans have soared to the highest levels in decades
April 09, 2024
President Joe Biden is taking another shot at student loan cancellation, hoping to deliver on a key campaign promise that he has so far failed to deliver
April 08, 2024
The NCAA women's basketball tournament is having a moment
April 08, 2024
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics has announced a policy that allows only athletes whose biological sex is female to participate in women's sports
April 08, 2024
Precautions are in place at the University of Connecticut designed to prevent a repeat of the violence and vandalism that marred the celebrations of the school’s 2023 NCAA men’s basketball championship
April 08, 2024
Longtime Kentucky coach John Calipari was in negotiations to potentially leave and take the men’s basketball coaching job at Arkansas, multiple outlets reported late Sunday
April 08, 2024
President Joe Biden is traveling to Wisconsin to announce details of a new plan to help millions of people with their student loan debt
April 08, 2024
Josh Schertz has been hired as coach at Saint Louis after leading Indiana State to the Missouri Valley regular-season title and the NIT championship game
April 06, 2024
A federal appeals court says a Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful.”
April 05, 2024
College athletes have made substantial progress in being able to get paid for the use of their name, image and likeness − except in one realm.
April 05, 2024
Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer” continues its troubled run as the country’s most controversial book, topping the American Library Association’s “challenged books” list for a third straight year
April 05, 2024
President Joe Biden will announce a significant new plan next week to cancel federal student loan debt for new categories of borrowers
April 05, 2024
A Nebraska bill to limit transgender students’ access to bathrooms and sports teams has advanced out of committee with just days to go until the end of the session
April 04, 2024
There's a renewed push to meet kids where they are when it comes to seeing a dentist
April 03, 2024
In the summer of 2022, days before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some 500 high school girls gathered in Missouri for a weeklong mock government camp in which they elected their own governor and seated an all-female Supreme Court that would rule on their own bodies
April 03, 2024
Jill Biden says that when the nation's top teachers visit the White House this year, they'll be recognized at their own state dinner
April 03, 2024
A 2nd grade teacher in rural Tennessee has been chosen as the 2024 National Teacher of the Year
April 03, 2024
In a sport committed to increasing its number of Black players, Southern University’s upset of LSU this week was a victory for all HBCU baseball programs
April 03, 2024
Oklahoma's attorney general is urging the state's highest court to stop the creation of what would be the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school
April 02, 2024
Student journalists across the United States have done their bit to cover small town news for years, but a college paper in Iowa is taking a bigger swing at it
April 02, 2024
LSU and 10 former students who sued the school over alleged mishandling of sexual assault and domestic violence complaints against football players and others at Louisiana’s flagship state university have settled the case
April 02, 2024
A few Ivy League schools say the tests enable them to find students of promise from low-income families. But not all sociologists agree.
April 01, 2024
South Korea’s president has vowed not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions
April 01, 2024
A group of students from a New Orleans high school staged a play they developed on the steps of Louisiana's Capitol to protest a series of anti-LGBTQ+ legislative proposals
March 31, 2024
Lawmakers in more than a dozen states have proposed legislation to allow spiritual chaplains in public schools
March 30, 2024
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Laurie Anderson and the president of the Harlem School of the Arts, James C
March 29, 2024
A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
March 29, 2024
Georgia could join other states in requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents’ explicit permission to create social media accounts
March 29, 2024
Top Massachusetts officials joined with NCAA President and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday to announce a new initiative aimed at tackling the public health harms associated with sports gambling among young people
March 28, 2024
A group of Republican-led states is suing the Biden administration to block a new student loan repayment plan that provides a faster path to cancellation and lower monthly payments for millions of borrowers
March 28, 2024
Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning
March 28, 2024
A bridge engineering expert discusses the costs and limitations of building structures to withstand extreme events – and what it takes to prepare the next generation of civil engineers.
March 28, 2024
The total solar eclipse expected on April 8 already is inspiring school lessons in science, literacy and culture
March 28, 2024
West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justice broke with the GOP-majority Legislature to veto a bill that would have loosened one of the country’s strictest school vaccination policies
March 27, 2024
Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity say they saw them and that they couldn't hold back tears of joy during the reunion
March 27, 2024
Tennessee advocates for gun safety are forming a 3-mile human chain in Nashville on the anniversary of last year's deadly Covenant School shooting
March 27, 2024
When the Supreme Court ended affirmative action, it left the college essay as one of few places where race can play a role in admissions decisions
March 27, 2024
Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district’s diversity programming, a lawyer for the majority Black district in suburban St. Louis says the state’s chief attorney is showing racial bias
March 26, 2024
Dozens of kids and teenagers from Rio de Janeiro’s Mare neighborhood gathered for the launch of a book in which they show, with their own words and pictures, how violence in their poor, bayside community weighs on their young lives
March 26, 2024
If you have young kids, the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, represents a rare opportunity to teach them about science.
March 26, 2024
Nearly a year after a shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville that left three adults and three children dead, students and their families have formed tight bonds out of their shared grief
March 26, 2024
A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state's ban on critical race theory in public schools
March 25, 2024
The Colorado university where a student is charged with killing his suitemate and another person in a dorm room last month has hired two former U.S. attorneys to review of what led to the shooting and whether any campus policies and procedures can be improved
March 25, 2024
Stanford has hired Kyle Smith away from Washington State to take over its struggling men’s basketball program
March 25, 2024
A state official in northwest Nigeria says nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in have been released more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school
March 24, 2024
For this weekend, the University of Idaho marching band is calling itself the “Van-Dogs Marching Band.”
March 23, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to tour the blood-stained classroom building where the 2018 Parkland high school massacre happened
March 23, 2024
Kellie Harper always knew she wanted to coach college basketball, but never thought it would be at her alma mater Tennessee
March 23, 2024
Texas authorities say a school bus with more than 40 prekindergarten students has collided with a concrete truck and rolled over while returning from a field trip
March 22, 2024
The U.S. Education Department says it discovered a calculation error in hundreds of thousands of student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, a blunder that follows a series of others and threatens further delays to this year’s college applications
March 22, 2024
Long Beach State’s athletic director says the timing of his decision to part ways with coach Dan Monson was done with the hope it might trigger the exact run that led the team on its unexpected trip to March Madness
March 21, 2024
Another 78,000 Americans are getting their federal student loans canceled through a program that helps teachers, nurses and other public servants
March 21, 2024
South Korea’s government says it will start suspending the licenses of striking junior doctors next week
March 21, 2024
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public schools, universities and state agencies
March 20, 2024
The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education
March 20, 2024
Why AP called Arizona for Trump
Trump wins Arizona, sweeping all seven battleground states, Edison Research says
China, Indonesia enhance ties with key deals on lithium, green energy, tourism
King Charles III and Kate will attend remembrance events as both royals slowly return to duty
Taliban administration officials to attend UN climate conference in Azerbaijan
Trump has vowed to kill US offshore wind projects. Will he succeed?
US to speed up interceptor missiles delivery to Ukraine, WSJ reports
Jalen Milroe runs for career-high 185 yards and 4 TDs as No. 11 Alabama thrashes No. 14 LSU 42-13
Justin Allgaier wins 1st NASCAR Xfinity title, capping comeback by passing Hill and Custer late
Evan Mobley scores 23 points and Cavaliers rally past Nets 105-100 to remain perfect at 11-0