As widely predicted, Black and Latino student enrollment is falling at elite institutions nationwide in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling restricting race-conscious admissions. Demographic ...
Our story about the use of devices in the early grade for both academic work and break time drew a flood of responses from readers.
Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The proposed ...
Alongside a series of drastic cuts to programs that support teaching Black history, the NEH has announced funding for a new round of grants linked to more conservative thinking. Teachers of Black ...
When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...
As an English teacher in 2016, I spent a summer in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society learning about abolition and women’s suffrage efforts. I held original bills of sale of young Black ...
Students walk through an entrance to Yale University’s Old Campus in New Haven. Yale is among the institutions facing increased taxes on their endowments imposed by Republicans in Congress. Credit: ...
Johnson & Wales University. The university has launched in-person three-year bachelor’s degrees that can be earned with fewer than the traditional 120 credits, part of a fast-moving national trend.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Quinn McDonald planned to spend the typical four years working toward a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Then he heard about a place where he could get the same degree in ...