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.
By Dana Goldstein and
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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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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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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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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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Yale Chooses Head of Stony Brook University to Be New President
Maurie D. McInnis, a cultural historian, will be the first woman to serve as the school’s permanent president.
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Harvard Says It Will No Longer Take Positions on Matters Outside of the University
The policy could ease pressure on the school to issue statements on current events. Officials were criticized for their handling of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.
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Trump Elevates a Conservative ‘Warrior’ on Education
Byron Donalds is best known as a Trump defender and potential vice-presidential pick. But in Florida, the congressman and his wife made a name — and a business — in the charter school movement.
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In House Hearing, Republicans Demand Discipline for Student Protesters
Leaders of Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers, drawing lessons from prior hearings, sought to avoid enraging either the Republicans on the committee or members of their own institutions.
By Anemona Hartocollis, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Sharon Otterman, Ernesto Londoño and
Anyone Want to Be a College President? There Are (Many) Openings
The job is not what it used to be. There are openings at U.C.L.A., Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Penn … and many, many others.
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U.C.L.A. Police Make First Arrest in Attack on Protest Encampment
Edan On, an 18-year-old, was charged with assault. The police said he beat pro-Palestinian protesters with a wooden pole.
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Protesters Stormed an Ex-Senator’s Office and Demanded She Leave. She Refused.
Heidi Heitkamp was in her office at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics when protesters occupied the building.
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Dartmouth’s Leader Called in Police Quickly. The Fallout Was Just as Swift.
Local law enforcement went in just a couple of hours after a protest encampment went up.
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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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Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end.
By Sarah Mervosh and Madeleine Ngo
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
By Sarah Mervosh
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
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
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
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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
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
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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
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