Teachers Union Push to Cancel Class for May Day Irks Chicago Parents
Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose ties to the Chicago Teachers Union helped him win office, has signaled support. The school district and some parents object.
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CreditJamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times A Football School Striving to Be More Keeps Dropping the Ball
Ohio State isn’t the only university in turmoil, but few others have faced so many issues lately. One lawmaker called the school “a national embarrassment.”
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Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.
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An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.
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Texas A&M Picks an Insider for President After Months of Conflict
Debates over how to teach about gender, sexuality and other topics have shaken the school, and led to the ouster of the previous president at the College Station campus last summer.
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CreditAnnie Mulligan for The New York Times Harvard Says Trump Lawsuit Rehashes a Battle the School Already Won
The government has accused Harvard of harboring antisemitism. Harvard says it prevailed in a similar case last year, and wants the lawsuit moved to the judge who ruled in its favor.
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At the School of American Ballet’s new health and wellness center, bodies and minds share equal billing and everyone gets the help they need.
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Recruitment sessions have taken place at hundreds of universities and colleges across the country.
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CreditAnton Vaganov/Reuters After Charlie Kirk’s Death, a Fight for the Youth Vote
A fledgling Democratic group and the far-right white nationalist Nick Fuentes seek to make gains on college campuses that have recently been dominated by Turning Point USA.
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In a Restaurant’s Name, a Message of Grief and Hope for Palestinians
Hinds Hall near Columbia University is a place to find Palestinian cuisine and to remember a 5-year-old killed in Gaza.
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The immigration judges’ abrupt dismissals marked the latest efforts by the Trump administration to reshape the country’s immigration courts.
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Prescribing produce, crafting meals: More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients.
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CreditTony Luong for The New York Times Looking for a College Scholarship on Social Media Sites? Buyer, Beware.
Students say they trust their peers’ advice more than financial advisers’, a new survey found. But experts say students need to do their own research.
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The Chinese Communist Party has turned Lu Xun, a Mao-era hero who excoriated the establishment, into a bland, Disney-style character.
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More in Learning: A Special Report ›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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CreditHannah Yoon for The New York Times 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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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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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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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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Guest EssayYou Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education
Technology must return to its proper place in the classroom — as a supplemental tool rather than the source and summit of education.
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Tufts Student Who Was Held in Immigration Detention Returns to Turkey
Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained for weeks by the Trump administration after co-writing a pro-Palestinian opinion essay, has graduated and returned home.
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Other Colleges Have Frat Houses. This One Has a Cookie House.
For decades, Carleton College in Minnesota has kept a place where students and others can come, bake and share. After a recent renovation, we checked in.
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New York TodayA New Historian for the Borough of Brooklyn
Asad Dandia, 33, an ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, will take over from Ron Schweiger, who has held the unpaid position for 24 years.
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As Enrollment Dips, School Administrators Turn to TikTok to Advertise
Birthrates are down. Families are leaving New York City. So educators, especially at charter schools, are expanding their marketing efforts on social media and in subway stations.
By Troy Closson, Matthew Haag and Jeff Adelson
‘Proof’ Review: Ayo Edebiri as a Math Girl, Interrupted
The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack of rigor.
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Are You an International Student Looking for Work?
We want to understand how international students are navigating the current job market in the United States.
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Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems
A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia’s role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities.
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The Republicans Who Disapprove of the War, and a Wave of College Closures
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What the New Loan Caps Will Mean for Grad Students This Fall
With new limits on federal lending, many students will need private loans and some could be shut out. See the data, program by program.
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