What You Should Know About College Admissions Changes

After loosening requirements during the Covid era, some schools are shaking up admissions again, facing pressure from the Trump administration, A.I. and even their own professors.

How Should ?Huckleberry Finn? Be Taught?

I traveled around the country to find out if ?Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? still has a place in the classroom.

How Big Tech Captured American Schools

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

How Harvard?s Epic Fight With Trump Is Costing the University

The federal government has slowed Harvard?s funding, despite the university?s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.

Academic Who Publicized Plagiarism Allegations Against Jason Arday Is Suspended

Ghent University in Belgium said it suspended the academic, Nathan Cofnas, pending an investigation.

Many Student Loan Borrowers May Have to Switch to Worse Repayment Plans

In an unusual move, Congress worsened terms for some existing borrowers. Now they?ll have to pay more, and for a longer term.

Mamdani Sues City Council Over $10,000 Bonuses to Teachers? Aides

New York City says the Council?s legislation violates collective bargaining law. The dispute could set up the first high-profile battle between the mayor and a public sector union.

Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

Penn State Fraternity Members Are Charged in Cocaine Trafficking Case

More than a dozen current and former students from two fraternities were part of an operation that involved packaging drugs at fraternity houses, the authorities said.

India?s College Boom Is Leaving Graduates in Debt and Without Jobs

Families are betting their savings on private universities as a path to a better life. A shortage of well-paying work is turning that wager into frustration.

University of Michigan Names President After Prior Pick Faced Brain Cancer

The university chose a Vanderbilt academic, Cybele Raver, after a previous candidate for the role had to step down because of a brain cancer diagnosis.

Harvard Agrees to $53 Million Settlement in Body Part Theft Scandal

The agreement settles lawsuits filed by relatives of people whose remains, donated for medical research and teaching, were stolen and sold by the former manager of the school?s medical morgue.

Trump Officials Ignored Their Own University Investigations, Lawyer Says

A former Justice Department lawyer says Trump administration leaders ignored findings that elite schools, including Brown and Columbia, hadn?t broken the law as they pressed them into deals.

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it?s costing more than just grammar skills.

India?s Summer of Youth Protests Is Boiling Over

The police fired water cannons at protesters in the state of Bihar, while the leaders of the ?Cockroach? student movement vowed to return to Delhi?s streets.

College Students Worried About A.I. Should Study the Humanities

The future?s a riddle. Shakespeare isn?t.

Go Ahead, Sean Duffy. Let Your Daughter Go to Harvard.

Four years at Harvard won?t corrupt your children.

Push Your Musical Gods Off Their Pedestals

Musicians have a special tendency to elevate their teachers to divine status. It?s the worst thing a serious artist can do.

Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty

To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors.

What Does Harry and Meghan?s Return to England Mean for Their Children?

One effect of moving back is that Archie and Lilibet now have the opportunity to be schooled as Britons. Here?s what that might look like.

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