Peter Salovey has increased the university’s endowment and its diversity. But the school faces the end of affirmative action and a push to end legacy admissions.
Ron DeSantis rose to prominence in part on his “anti-woke” agenda, especially when it comes to education. In some settings, culture-war messaging seems to be receding.
Deborah A. Gist hopes to stop a state takeover of the district, which is majority Black and Hispanic. Ryan Walters, the state superintendent, is a fiery conservative.
The state’s flagship school will no longer teach world languages or creative writing — a sign, its president says, of the future at many public universities.
By Anemona Hartocollis
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Looking for an alternative, the school district in Louisville, Ky., turned to a software program — leading to chaos. It’s one of many districts struggling to get students to class.
With affirmative action banned, application essays ask about “life experience,” the one place in admissions where discussing race is still explicitly legal.
In its first guidance since the Supreme Court decision, the administration says many recruitment programs are still allowed, but other questions are left unanswered.
From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself.
New research reveals the vast scope of the Native American boarding school system, which for more than a century removed Native children from their homes and families in an effort to assimilate them. Students at the schools gave up their names, their labor and sometimes their lives.
By Zach Levitt, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Simon Romero and Tim Wallace
Nearly 60 percent of Lahaina students haven’t enrolled in classes after the deadly fire, and families are yearning to rebuild their school network for educational and emotional support.
Tailei Qi, 34, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Zijie Yan, an associate professor in the applied physical sciences department, inside a campus lab on Monday.
An elementary school principal in Forsyth County emailed parents to apologize last week after Marc Tyler Nobleman used the word in a presentation about the origins of Batman.
With much of his racial equity agenda thwarted by Congress or the courts, President Biden is trying to close an enthusiasm gap among the voters who helped deliver him to the White House.
The state’s top prosecutor, Rob Bonta, has filed suit against a school district’s new requirement that parents be notified when their child wants to use a different name or pronoun.
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