Yale’s New President Pushed Policing as Head of Stony Brook University
In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.
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In her four years at the state university, Maurie McInnis drew criticism from faculty members who said some of her decisions violated academic freedom.
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Teachers this year saw the effects of the pandemic’s stress and isolation on young students: Some can barely speak, sit still or even hold a pencil.
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The state superintendent, Ryan Walters, said the Bible was a “necessary historical document.” The mandate comes as part of a conservative movement to infuse Christian values in public schools.
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The lawsuit was filed a year after the Supreme Court struck down the use of racial and gender preferences in college admissions.
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Bloomberg’s $1 Billion Gift for Free Medical School Applies but Not to All
A donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies will provide free tuition for Johns Hopkins medical students, if their families make less than $300,000 a year.
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Harvard Task Forces Find Climate of Bias for Both Jewish and Muslim Groups
Groups investigating antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias cited instances of discrimination against pro-Israel students and “a pervasive climate of intolerance” against pro-Palestinian students.
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Why U.S. Schools Are Facing Their Biggest Budget Crunch in Years
Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end.
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Schools Got a Record $190 Billion in Pandemic Aid. Did It Work?
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
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A School With 7 Students: Inside the ‘Microschools’ Movement
Parents, desperate for help, are turning to private schools with a half-dozen or so students. And they are getting a financial boost from taxpayers.
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California Joins Growing National Effort to Ban Smartphone Use in Schools
Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a statewide ban as states and large school districts have pursued similar prohibitions to prevent disruption and cyberbullying.
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Penn Bans Protest Encampments From Its Campus for the First Time
The new rules, which would also significantly rein in demonstrations at the university in other ways, come on the heels of a nationwide wave of student activism against Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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Is This the End for Mandatory D.E.I. Statements?
Harvard and M.I.T. no longer require applicants for teaching jobs to explain how they would serve underrepresented groups. Other schools may follow.
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U.C. Berkeley’s Leader, a Free Speech Champion, Has Advice for Today’s Students: Tone It Down
“Just because you have the right to say something doesn’t mean it’s right to say,” said Carol Christ, who is retiring as chancellor at the end of this month.
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Students Want Charges Dropped. What Is the Right Price for Protests?
At pro-Palestinian demonstrations, students have broken codes of conduct and, sometimes, the law. But the question of whether and how to discipline them is vexing universities.
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Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
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At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Faced with declining enrollment, smaller schools are harnessing innovative ideas — like course sharing — to attract otherwise reluctant students.
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Community Schools Offer More Than Just Teaching
The concept has been around for a while, but the pandemic reinforced the importance of providing support to families and students to enhance learning.
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Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss?
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
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Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
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.
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La taxonomía, o la ciencia de poner nombre a las especies, ha sido víctima de un amplio cambio en nuestras prioridades científicas. Pero la necesitamos más que nunca.
By Robert Langellier
An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.
By Zachary Small
In tiny Wymore, Neb., a sleek new battery-powered school bus became a Rorschach test for the future.
By Dionne Searcey and George Etheredge
The gift, made by Michael R. Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization, will also cover living expenses for some Johns Hopkins University students.
By Jesus Jiménez
Naming species has been a victim of a broad shift in our scientific priorities. But we need it more than ever.
By Robert Langellier
La herramienta estaba destinada a proporcionar estrategias educativas individualizadas para estudiantes de Los Ángeles. Sin embargo, antes de poder hacerlo, la empresa que la creó colapsó.
By Dana Goldstein
“Every day I have that test. Everything I do,” President Biden said in his ABC News interview. “Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
One journalist, a resident of the beach town Avalon, N.J., wanted to find out.
By Jen A. Miller
Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.
By Pamela Paul
While serving a sentence for burglary, I enrolled in a college journalism class. When I interviewed my correctional officer, my world broadened.
By Mario Koran
Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.
By Dana Goldstein
Schools ground migrant children and their families when everything else — the language, the city, the culture, the people — is brand-new.
By Bliss Broyard and Mateo Arciniegas Huertas
A co-founder of the Center School in Manhattan, she implemented once-radical ideas that put the students first. She retired four decades later, at 91.
By Clay Risen
In a closely watched case, Oklahoma’s highest court blocked what was set to become the nation’s first religious charter school. An appeal is likely.
By Sarah Mervosh
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District 15 dropped selective admissions for middle schools, and the schools are now more integrated than they were.
By James Barron
Breaking with segregation does not have to involve bitterness and decades of delays.
By Brent Staples
A part of the SAVE plan that would have cut monthly bills for millions of borrowers starting on July 1 was put on hold.
By Tara Siegel Bernard and Zach Montague
Students across America are asking whether college is worth it. We want to know why you decided that it was — or wasn’t — a good choice to attend.
By Jeanna Smialek
Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the Israel-Hamas war.
By Heather Knight
The Manhattan district attorney’s office cited a lack of evidence in deciding not to prosecute 31 of the 46 people charged in the takeover of Hamilton Hall.
By Chelsia Rose Marcius
Voters recalled a Southern California school board president after his conservative majority approved policies on critical race theory and transgender issues.
By Jill Cowan
A $20 million program will give financial restitution to students who endured abuse and neglect at the hands of the state.
By Patricia Mazzei
Gov. Jeff Landry wants his state to be at the forefront of a national movement to advance legislation with a Christian worldview.
By Rick Rojas, David W. Chen and Elizabeth Dias
La ley firmada el miércoles por el gobernador Jeff Landry convierte al estado en el único con este mandato. Los críticos han prometido presentar un recurso de inconstitucionalidad.
By Rick Rojas
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A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.
By Annie Aguiar
California is the latest state to try to regulate the devices. But how far should the ban go? And will parents sign on?
By Dana Goldstein and Emily Cochrane
Mr. Trump’s promise to Silicon Valley investors was a sharp departure from immigration curbs he enacted during his presidency. His campaign walked it back soon after.
By Chris Cameron
Many buildings lack air-conditioning, despite years of calls for improvements to old buildings.
By Liam Stack and Nate Schweber
A recent study ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities based on median rents, job opportunities and social metrics.
By Matt Yan
Estos colegios privados suelen abrir cuatro o cinco días a la semana, con profesores de tiempo completo, y planes de estudios fijos. Están recibiendo impulso financiero de los contribuyentes.
By Dana Goldstein and Audra Melton
A new report found that many schools enrolled more racially and socioeconomically diverse groups of students without sparking a major exodus of families from public schools.
By Troy Closson
A law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday makes the state the only one with such a mandate. Critics have vowed to mount a constitutional challenge.
By Rick Rojas
We want to hear from you — students, parents and teachers — about a growing push to limit smartphone usage in schools.
By Emily Cochrane
Conservative groups and Republican attorneys general have argued that the protections for transgender students come at the expense of others’ privacy and conflicts with a number of state laws.
By Zach Montague
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The department concluded that both schools failed to appropriately respond to complaints that campus protests had veered into antisemitism and anti-Arab discrimination.
By Zach Montague
The elite Baccalaureate high school, housed in a former pocketbook factory in Queens, is known for its college-level courses. And now its undefeated softball team.
By David Waldstein
The bishops acknowledged the church’s role in operating schools where Native American children faced abuses and forced assimilation.
By Rachel Nostrant
In a case that roiled a racially diverse town in New Jersey for months, a high school principal is one step closer to getting his job back.
By John Leland
More than 11 years after one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history, on what would have been the victims’ high school graduation day, the residents of Newtown, Conn., paused to reflect.
By Claire Fahy
Julio Frenk, a public health expert who has led the University of Miami since 2015, will take over the elite Los Angeles school that has been rocked by protests this spring.
By Jill Cowan and Billy Witz
Police arrested more than 20 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on U.C.L.A.’s campus after several physical confrontations with security guards.
By Jonathan Wolfe
A letter of recommendation from Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to the Citadel for Elias Irizarry.
In 1974, a high school commencement ceremony in Moore, Okla., was interrupted by a tornado warning. Decades later, students finally turned their tassels.
By Emily Schmall
The university joins a small but growing number of elite colleges requiring SAT or ACT scores in applications once again.
By Heather Knight
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In a unanimous decision, the university’s board of trustees also moved to disband a scholarship in Mr. Combs’s name amid investigations into abuse allegations.
By Emmett Lindner
An Orange County judge halted the labor action by academic workers after the university system said the walkout was causing students “irreparable harm.”
By Shawn Hubler
The exercise upset some high school students who were on a field trip to the Burlington Police Department this week.
By Aimee Ortiz
The abrupt closure of the University of the Arts affects hundreds of faculty members and more than a thousand students.
By Zachary Small
A cultural historian, he was dismissed by Stanford over his opposition to the Vietnam War, a stance that became a cause célèbre of academic freedom.
By Trip Gabriel
Demonstrators had taken over the office at dawn and demanded that Stanford University trustees vote on divestment from companies said to support Israel’s military.
By Heather Knight
The teacher in Massachusetts, who has not been named, was placed on leave after also using a racial slur, the school superintendent said.
By Livia Albeck-Ripka
The speaker of the State House, Dade Phelan, survived a primary challenge from a Trump-backed activist, but many other Republican incumbents were ousted in bitter primary races.
By J. David Goodman
Responses to an essay about the role of liberal arts in higher education. Also: Tim Scott; political violence; saving Marilyn Monroe’s house; FAFSA.
The landmark settlement that would create a revenue-sharing plan is part of a long arc of profits in college sports.
By Billy Witz and Mark Shimabukuro
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The Upper East Side college’s alumni include Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president.
By James Barron
La ceremonia de graduación es un raro ritual estadounidense que todavía tiene reglas y convoca la atención pública.
By Jason Farago
President Biden’s commencement address comes at a moment of military upheaval abroad, university protests at home and a looming rematch with former President Donald J. Trump.
By Michael D. Shear
When the police dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Virginia, several professors put their own safety and job security on the line to protect student protesters. Now, faculty members give us a closer look into what happened.
By Brent McDonald and Whitney Shefte
In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court’s decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations.
By Abbie VanSickle
Many officials may be confronting federal investigations, disputes over student discipline — and the prospect that the protests start all over again in the fall.
By Jeremy W. Peters
The students were protesting Harvard University’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza.
By Ang Li
Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.
By Jason Farago
The Republican of New York was already a rising star within her party before the Israel-Hamas war turbocharged concerns about antisemitic incidents in American education.
By Nicholas Fandos
The House member from North Carolina attributes her blunt conservative politics to her pulled-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps life.
By Anemona Hartocollis
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The House committee’s school choices suggest a shift in focus, from the larger issue of campus antisemitism to pro-Palestinian encampments and their organizers.
By Anemona Hartocollis
Anger at the university’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza was a flashpoint for the protest on Thursday.
By Maya Shwayder, Jenna Russell and Anemona Hartocollis
The leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of California, Los Angeles, appeared to have navigated their testimony before Congress without many significant missteps.
By Jacey Fortin
The billionaire Rob Hale gave the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth a gift, and asked them to give, too.
By Jenna Russell
University of California, Los Angeles, officials have been widely criticized for their failure to stop attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters at a campus demonstration.
By Corina Knoll
Dorothy Jean Tillman II of Chicago made history as the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at Arizona State University.
By Alexandra E. Petri
The announcement applied to 160,000 borrowers and brings the total debt canceled by the administration to $167 billion.
By Zach Montague
Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it.
By Troy Closson
Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.
By Susan Shain
Over a dozen Democratic elected officials criticized a parent group that asked for a review of rules that let students play on sports teams that align with their gender identity.
By Troy Closson
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Documents obtained by The Times show the department’s troubled FAFSA rollout this year came in spite of early warnings that the project required sustained attention.
By Zach Montague
As commencement season continues, Youssef Hasweh, a college senior in Chicago, is one of many student protesters around the country who face disciplinary action. With less than two weeks until graduation, his academic future remains in limbo.
By Kassie Bracken, Meg Felling and Mike Shum
The liberal arts are fading just when we need them most.
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Harun Küçük
The president’s appearance at the historically Black college in Atlanta drew some respectful but noticeable protest over U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
By Katie Rogers and Maya King
The votes came weeks after students at a pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked for hours by a large group of counterprotesters without police intervention.
By Jill Cowan
Dozens of alumni of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts had sued in 2021, accusing faculty members of widespread misconduct.
By Matt Stevens
Several universities struck agreements with pro-Palestinian demonstrators to end disruptive encampments on their campuses. But some of those agreements are already under fire.
By Vimal Patel
Older folks’ objections to protests and encampments may not be as reasoned as they claim.
By Elizabeth Spiers
In a report, the committee listed what it said were Harvard’s failures to crack down on antisemitism. Harvard said the report gives an “incomplete and inaccurate view” of its efforts.
By Anemona Hartocollis
The university said 47 people were arrested in the operation, which the chancellor said was prompted by the protesters’ takeover of a lecture hall.
By Jonathan Wolfe
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An arrest warrant was issued for Ian Thomas Cleary in 2021 after Shannon Keeler discovered online messages about a sexual assault in Pennsylvania in 2013.
By Johnny Diaz and Aurelien Breeden
A union representing about 48,000 academic workers said that campus leaders mishandled pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The vote gives the union’s executive board the ability to call a strike at any time.
By Jonathan Wolfe
D’Youville University in Buffalo had an A.I. robot speak at its commencement on Saturday. Not everyone was happy about it.
By Jesus Jiménez
School officials said that an assistant middle school principal had been placed on leave after he was arrested and charged, along with three others, with strangling three people in Jonesboro, Ga.
By Michael Levenson
At least one person was arrested outside the event in Los Angeles, after pro-Palestinian protesters scuffled with police and private security officers.
By Jonathan Wolfe
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators tried to block access to Pomona College’s graduation ceremony on Sunday.
By The Associated Press
Following the walkout, the comedian, who has been vocal about his support for Israel, opted to take a lighter approach in his commencement speech.
By Eduardo Medina and Emily Cataneo
Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation.
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Mike Baker and Serge F. Kovaleski
Estudios recientes ponen en duda que las intervenciones en salud mental a gran escala le hacen bien a los niños y adolescentes. Algunos, incluso, sugieren que pueden tener un efecto negativo.
By Ellen Barry
Is this what a police state looks like?
By Zeynep Tufekci
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Colleges have failed to strike a balance between academic freedom and free speech during this spring’s protests.
By The Editorial Board
The White House appears anxious about President Biden’s coming speech at Morehouse College. But for complex reasons, such campuses have had far less visible Gaza tensions.
By Maya King and Reid J. Epstein
Inside the charming and intense competition to represent New York City at the international soapbox derby championship this summer.
By Bernard Mokam and Gabriela Bhaskar
The decision came after complaints were filed related to the actions of the chief in late April, when the campus police arrested dozens of people.
By Jacey Fortin
The move came hours before the school’s graduation ceremony was scheduled to be held.
By Anna Betts
The university held a hastily assembled party for its graduates instead of its usual commencement ceremony.
By Jonathan Wolfe and Shawn Hubler
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