Nearly 50,000 academic workers picketed 10 University of California campuses for a third week, generating uncertainty around final exams which are scheduled to begin next week, even as a quarter of the strikers reached a tentative deal this week. The strike, one of…
Hilary Muñoz is a special education teacher at Chicago Public Schools who has taught reading to bilingual students on the city’s southwest sides. The national board certified teacher was finding that her students, who are native Spanish speakers, had not…
"Rough as hell." That's how one high school principal in Nevada describes the 2021-'22 school year, when conflicts with parents and community members were all too common.
Yale University is accused in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated. The…
Penn State University will seek to reunify its two separately accredited and operated law schools, officials said this week.
Stanford University’s board of trustees is investigating whether multiple research papers co-authored by the school’s president, neuroscientist Marc Tessier-Lavigne, contained altered images, raising concerns about the academic integrity of the leader of one of the world’s top research institutions. The board…
I went to 19 funerals during the first year of COVID. When I wasn’t saying goodbye to people I cared about, I was in front of a screen that was my connection to school and friends for a year and…
Morehouse College history professor Dr. Ovell Hamilton is taking his students through Black history in the Metaverse. His course places students on a slave ship, in key moments in the Civil Rights movement and other moments in Black history which they can…
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear oral arguments about President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program, an important step toward resolving a months long legal battle over whether the administration exceeded its authority when it decided to wipe out debt owed by tens of…
North Carolina’s State Board of Education backed on Thursday an incremental approach to advance a potential teacher licensure overhaul that would include higher instructor pay based on performance rather than years of experience. The board voted with no opposition for…
This town and its neighboring communities are mourning four University of Idaho students who were stabbed multiple times in their sleep in a home near the campus on Nov. 13 – and the peace that once surrounded the school. On Wednesday evening, students and faculty were expected…
Tennessee is taking steps to ensure that private schools get the opportunity to receive nearly $60 million in unused federal COVID relief funds set aside for them in 2021. But the state is considering loosening some of the strings that…
On a drizzly Saturday in late November, a group of Oxford High students traveled from Michigan to Uvalde to play with more than 50 kids in Texas.
Postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers on Tuesday reached a tentative labor agreement with the University of California but will remain on strike in solidarity with thousands of graduate student workers at all 10 of the university system’s campuses. The union representing the…
With the rise of sports betting, one playing field has become a dividing line in the U.S. gambling industry: college campuses. Caesars Entertainment Inc. CZR 1.77%increase; green up pointing triangle has signed marketing deals with the Louisiana State University and Michigan State University athletics programs,…
Growing up, Meelod Waheed planned to attend a four-year university. Although his parents didn’t go to college, they taught him about the power of education and expected him to earn a college degree. But then his father died, and, when…
