Education

Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end.

Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.

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.

District 15 dropped selective admissions for middle schools, and the schools are now more integrated than they were.

Breaking with segregation does not have to involve bitterness and decades of delays.

A part of the SAVE plan that would have cut monthly bills for millions of borrowers starting on July 1 was put on hold.

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.

Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the Israel-Hamas war.

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.

Voters recalled a Southern California school board president after his conservative majority approved policies on critical race theory and transgender issues.

A $20 million program will give financial restitution to students who endured abuse and neglect at the hands of the state.

Gov. Jeff Landry wants his state to be at the forefront of a national movement to advance legislation with a Christian worldview.

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.

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.

California is the latest state to try to regulate the devices. But how far should the ban go? And will parents sign on?

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.

Many buildings lack air-conditioning, despite years of calls for improvements to old buildings.

A recent study ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities based on median rents, job opportunities and social metrics.

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.

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.

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.

We want to hear from you — students, parents and teachers — about a growing push to limit smartphone usage in schools.

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.

The department concluded that both schools failed to appropriately respond to complaints that campus protests had veered into antisemitism and anti-Arab discrimination.

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.

The bishops acknowledged the church’s role in operating schools where Native American children faced abuses and forced assimilation.

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.

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.

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.

Police arrested more than 20 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on U.C.L.A.’s campus after several physical confrontations with security guards.

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.

The university joins a small but growing number of elite colleges requiring SAT or ACT scores in applications once again.

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.

An Orange County judge halted the labor action by academic workers after the university system said the walkout was causing students “irreparable harm.”

The exercise upset some high school students who were on a field trip to the Burlington Police Department this week.

The abrupt closure of the University of the Arts affects hundreds of faculty members and more than a thousand students.

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.

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.

The teacher in Massachusetts, who has not been named, was placed on leave after also using a racial slur, the school superintendent said.

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.

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.

The Upper East Side college’s alumni include Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president.

La ceremonia de graduación es un raro ritual estadounidense que todavía tiene reglas y convoca la atención pública.

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.

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.

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.

Many officials may be confronting federal investigations, disputes over student discipline — and the prospect that the protests start all over again in the fall.

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.

Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.

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.

The House member from North Carolina attributes her blunt conservative politics to her pulled-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps life.

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.

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.

The leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of California, Los Angeles, appeared to have navigated their testimony before Congress without many significant missteps.

The billionaire Rob Hale gave the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth a gift, and asked them to give, too.

University of California, Los Angeles, officials have been widely criticized for their failure to stop attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters at a campus demonstration.

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.

The announcement applied to 160,000 borrowers and brings the total debt canceled by the administration to $167 billion.

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.

Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.

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.

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.

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.

The liberal arts are fading just when we need them most.

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.

The votes came weeks after students at a pro-Palestinian encampment were attacked for hours by a large group of counterprotesters without police intervention.

Dozens of alumni of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts had sued in 2021, accusing faculty members of widespread misconduct.

Several universities struck agreements with pro-Palestinian demonstrators to end disruptive encampments on their campuses. But some of those agreements are already under fire.

Older folks’ objections to protests and encampments may not be as reasoned as they claim.

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.

The university said 47 people were arrested in the operation, which the chancellor said was prompted by the protesters’ takeover of a lecture hall.

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.

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.

D’Youville University in Buffalo had an A.I. robot speak at its commencement on Saturday. Not everyone was happy about it.

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.

At least one person was arrested outside the event in Los Angeles, after pro-Palestinian protesters scuffled with police and private security officers.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators tried to block access to Pomona College’s graduation ceremony on Sunday.

Following the walkout, the comedian, who has been vocal about his support for Israel, opted to take a lighter approach in his commencement speech.

Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation.

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.

Is this what a police state looks like?

Colleges have failed to strike a balance between academic freedom and free speech during this spring’s protests.

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.

Inside the charming and intense competition to represent New York City at the international soapbox derby championship this summer.

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.

The move came hours before the school’s graduation ceremony was scheduled to be held.

The university held a hastily assembled party for its graduates instead of its usual commencement ceremony.

Officers entered an encampment at the university early Friday after a 15-minute warning. About a dozen people were arrested.

When asked about the protests, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania said on Thursday that it was “past time” for Penn’s administration to clear the encampment.

Martha E. Pollack said she would remain in office until July 1 and that the decision was “mine and mine alone.”

Mixing it up a bit, schools leaders showed, can go far toward neutralizing a Congress with a craving to make a point.

For some in Berkeley, Calif., New York City and Montgomery County, Md., their responses about the hearing on antisemitism appeared to hinge on their opinions going in.

Carol Folt had been under fire for canceling a valedictorian’s speech and calling in the police, who cleared an encampment arrested dozens of protesters.

Politicians said educators had not done enough. But the New York chancellor said members were trying to elicit “gotcha moments” rather than stop antisemitism.

Under rapid-fire questioning, David C. Banks, the chancellor of New York City schools, pushed back on accusations that the district had allowed antisemitism to fester.

The action, with 33 arrests, came a few hours before Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington was scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill about the city’s handling of the protest. The hearing was canceled.

The legal and professional standards that govern K-12 public schools are more constrained than those that apply to higher education leaders.

Activists, university officials and political leaders are deeply divided over what, precisely, constitutes antisemitism.