![]() | Los Angeles Schools Shut Down After LAUSD Workers Launch 3-Day Strike |
The work stoppage began early Tuesday morning with a picket line at a district bus yard. | |
![]() | Florida Will Review Social Studies Textbooks for ?Prohibited Topics? |
Behind the scenes, one publisher went to great lengths to avoid mentions of race, even in the story of Rosa Parks. | |
![]() | At Wellesley College, Students Vote to Admit Trans Men |
Students supported a nonbinding referendum on Tuesday that calls for opening admission to all nonbinary and transgender applicants. Opponents say the school?s mission is to educate women. | |
![]() | Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Rule Penalizes Native Language Speakers |
An Education Department regulation penalizes Fulbright-Hays applicants if they grew up speaking the language of their proposed country for research. Lawsuits have followed. | |
![]() | Parents of L.S.U. Student Who Died After Hazing Awarded $6.1 Million |
Maxwell Gruver, 18, died in 2017 after a fraternity event in which pledges were forced to chug alcohol. His parents said the jury?s verdict was a significant step in their goal to end hazing. | |
![]() | UPenn Accuses a Professor of Racist Statements. Should She Be Fired? |
Amy Wax and free speech groups say the university is trampling on her academic freedom. Students ask whether her speech deserves to be protected. | |
![]() | Parents of L.S.U. Student Who Died After Hazing Awarded $6.1 Million |
Maxwell Gruver, 18, died in 2017 after a fraternity event in which pledges were forced to chug alcohol. His parents said the jury?s verdict was a significant step in their goal to end hazing. | |
![]() | School District Sued Over Handling of Student?s Pledge of Allegiance Protest |
A South Carolina high school teacher shoved a student against a wall after the teenager refused to stop for the pledge on her way to class, according to a federal lawsuit. | |
![]() | What to Know About Tenure and Free Speech Protections |
A conflict over a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania has stirred questions about what tenure means. | |
![]() | Colleges Have Been a Small-Town Lifeline. What Happens as They Shrink? |
Declining student enrollment is hitting the rural areas that rely on universities. They?re trying to adapt to survive. | |
![]() | College in Idaho Removes Abortion Artwork, Citing State Law |
Six works in a Lewis-Clark exhibition about health care were perceived to run afoul of a law that prohibits the use of state funds to ?promote abortion? or ?counsel in favor of abortion.? | |
![]() | Valparaiso Plans to Sell Georgia O?Keeffe Painting to Fix Dorms |
In the face of declining enrollment, Valparaiso University in Indiana wants to raise money to renovate two dormitories by selling treasures from its art museum. Not everyone is on board. | |
![]() | How Public Money Goes to Support a Hasidic Village?s Private Schools |
Created for a New York Hasidic group in 1989, the Kiryas Joel Village Union Free School District has directed millions of dollars to the community?s network of private schools. | |
![]() | The Rise of the Active Shooter Defense Industry |
More companies are promising to protect children or employees against gun violence. But the industry is largely unregulated and unproven. | |
![]() | Who?s Afraid of Black History? |
Ron DeSantis should be careful of the company he keeps. | |
![]() | Do Law Schools Need the LSAT? Here?s How to Understand the Debate. |
One part of the American Bar Association is trying to drop the test requirement for law schools, while another has voted to retain it ? and both sides say diversity is the reason. | |
![]() | DeSantis May Have Been Right |
The College Board amended its original plan for an A.P. African American studies course. It was probably for the best. | |
![]() | Michigan State Professor Was Teaching Class When Gunman Started Shooting |
A professor recalls: ?It looked like a robot, not someone human, covered with a mask and a cap.? | |
![]() | The College Board?s Rocky Path, Through Florida, to the A.P. Black Studies Course |
The nonprofit met with Governor DeSantis?s state officials, who asked whether the course was ?trying to advance Black Panther thinking.? | |
![]() | Before Michigan State Shooting, Some Students Survived Sandy Hook and Oxford |
The gunfire on Monday night left three dead and five critically injured. For some students, the familiar rituals of sorrow, anger and disbelief were playing out again. | |
![]() | DeSantis?s Latest Target: A Small College of ?Free Thinkers? |
Gov. Ron DeSantis?s plan to transform New College of Florida into a beacon of conservatism has left students and faculty members at the tight-knit, progressive school reeling. | |
![]() | After Adriana Kuch?s Suicide, a New Jersey Community Grapples With Bullying |
Amid grief and outrage over the death of Adriana Kuch, 14, students have mounted protests, and a schools superintendent has resigned. | |
![]() | In Post-Roe World, These Conservatives Embrace New Benefits for Parents |
Some conservative thinkers are pushing Republicans to move on from Reagan-era family policy and send cash to families. A few lawmakers are listening. | |
![]() | The Road to a Supreme Court Clerkship Starts at Three Ivy League Colleges |
The chances of obtaining a coveted clerkship, a new study found, increase sharply with undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. | |
![]() | The Problem With College Rankings, and How We Fix It |
My advice to the many anxious college applicants and their parents is to think about what you really want. | |
![]() | George Washington University Is Moving on From ?Colonials? |
The move comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across American sports. Potential new names include: ?Ambassadors,? ?Blue Fog,? ?Revolutionaries? and ?Sentinels.? | |
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