A new group of Rhodes scholars from the U.S. has been chosen for the prestigious academic program in a selection process that was conducted online for the third consecutive year. The class of 32 scholars for 2023 was "elected entirely…
Democratic newcomers spurred to run by this year’s controversial curriculum legislation largely trailed behind Republican incumbents in elections to the Indiana Statehouse, although a handful of teachers and other education-focused candidates were ahead in their races as of Wednesday, according…
During the last school year, when academic recovery remained elusive, Chicago schools continued to struggle with lagging attendance, new data show. This fall, they are making a fresh push to boost student turnout.
Two days after a tightly contested election in the fall of 1898, a white supremacist mob descended on Wilmington, North Carolina — a Southern oasis of Black prosperity during the Reconstruction era — to take back the city from “Negro rule.”…
A white University of Kentucky student accused of physically assaulting a Black student worker while repeatedly using racial slurs has been permanently banned from the school. Sophia Rosing is no longer a student at the university following the incident Sunday and will…
It sounds too good to be true: Get into college, with a guaranteed scholarship, without ever applying. This fall, tens of thousands of students will receive such offers from schools around the country. Direct admissions, as the approach is often…
There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it…
Since May, teachers and administrators at Great Oaks Legacy Charter School have been asking leadership for transparency about employee salary information following their claims of wage inequities among colleagues. Now the Newark-based charter school network said it has resumed a…
Harvard University's endowment, currently valued at a jaw-dropping $50.9 billion, has been the largest among academic institutions for more than 35 years. But the University of Texas is nipping at its heels. The University of Texas hopes to regain the…
It wasn’t until her junior year that Ashley Sanchez-Viafara learned the truth behind her high school’s racist namesake. The Thomas Chambliss Williams high school in Alexandria, Virginia, was named after a longtime district superintendent who served during the civil rights era — and did…
The former Yale University women’s soccer coach whose cooperation with authorities helped blow the lid off the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal by leading the FBI to the scheme’s mastermind was sentenced Wednesday to five months in prison. Rudy Meredith,…
There was one minute left on Suzanne Horsley's stopwatch and the atmosphere remained the energetic efforts of her class of third graders to clear the air. Horsley, a wellness teacher at Toll Gate Grammar School, in Pennington, New Jersey, had…
In front of national audience on Oct. 15, a sea of orange-clad fans pulled down the Neyland Stadium goal posts. At the same time, one important thing was going up: application to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Fans celebrated…
It's been two months since migrants began arriving in Chicago by busload from Texas - part of a move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, to send migrants arriving at his state's border to Democratic - led cities. Among…
Brown University is taking issue with a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union regarding a court order that requires the Ivy league school to pay more than $1 million to cover fees and expenses related to a legal challenge…
Uganda will shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola, the education minister said on Tuesday.
