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The Justice Department sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools, alleging its gender-transition policy hid student plans from parents.

Officials are closing trucking schools, detaining immigrant drivers and demanding driver data from states.

The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.

New York’s Democratic socialist mayor is challenging the 200,000-member union that supported him over one-time bonuses to school aides.

The president signed an executive order to establish an institution to prepare students for careers at NASA and the military.

Moms for Liberty has filed a lawsuit against the School District of the Chathams Board of Education for allegedly “pushing secret gender transitions.”...

Retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan could play spoiler in a high-stakes Alaska Senate race.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said the department is cracking down on schools that reassign rather than fire teachers credibly accused of sexual misconduct.

The education secretary says AI can transform learning, even as evidence about its effectiveness remains limited...

Hawk fire has covered more than 13,000 acres as blaze approaches University of Nevada campus in Reno...

David Barton—with his giant private vault—has become a quiet force driving a state-by-state campaign to integrate religion into public education...

Women’s hard-won legal protections now sit, perhaps unintentionally, in this bill’s path.

The DOJ's investigation was prompted by concerns that the College of William & Mary violated federal law in some scholarship selections.

The Pentagon ordered 30 universities to audit foreign ties or risk losing federal funding, targeting entities linked to China, Russia and Iran.

Khalil protested Israel as a student at Columbia. Now he’s on the verge of being kicked out of the country.

U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates have declined again, with exemptions reaching a record high for the 2025-2026 school year...

New bans on using student IDs for voting in Indiana and New Hampshire have sparked lawsuits after creating the latest hurdles to the ballot box for the U.S. voting-age group least likely to vote.

New bans on using student IDs for voting in Indiana and New Hampshire have sparked lawsuits after creating the latest hurdles to the ballot box for the U.S. voting-age group least likely to vote.

A Kentucky school's botched student planner is ridiculous — but it's hardly the troubled district's biggest problem...

Five people were injured in the shooting involving multiple suspects. One person is currently listed in critical condition, the university said.

A New Haven program couldn't raise salaries, so it began covering staff's biggest expense instead.

ESAs pair well with income-tax elimination, while tax credit scholarships don’t.

Thailand is suspending new gun permits and tightening its firearm controls after last week’s deadly school shooting, in which a 14-year-old boy killed eight people before turning the gun on himself.

More than ever, colleges and universities are divided over how to respond in what are likely to be no-win contests.

The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 10 last year, which requires all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.

DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport...

Vinita Prabhakar says she was dismissed after the college president objected to a story taught in freshman English...

It’s the last resort for institutions on the brink: tapping restricted funds from donors to keep the lights on.

The Pentagon is rethinking how it wages war after the Iran school strike.

The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

A provision now taking effect under the Big Beautiful Bill sends students to private schools at public expense...

Emerson College Polling survey finds Democrats leading Republicans by 11 points on the generic congressional ballot.

Survivors of a 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School gave emotional impact statements, and attorneys are now presenting evidence ahead of Colt Gray’s sentencing.

Grace Farris' book brings readers behind the med school scenes — documenting anxiety over loans, bouts of impostor syndrome, friendships forged in stress, and the ever-impossible work-life balance.

Both teachers at The SEED School of Miami face domestic violence battery charges after an alleged assault and pepper spray attack on school property.

The overhaul will reshape $200 billion in spending a year and favors individual scientists to outpace China.

As AI disrupts traditional career paths, these college students are skipping corporate internships for San Francisco hacker houses and incubators.

Leftist Bill Ayers and a Princeton University professor led an event on the eve of America's 250th birthday called "250 Years of Resistance."...

Schools across the U.S. are scrambling to help struggling readers. Tennessee’s back-to-basics approach is showing promise.

If you are a borrower, will soon be a borrower, or are paying back what you borrowed, you could be impacted.

Nashville’s Fisk University is facing backlash over a proposal for a massive data center on the school’s campus.

Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project...

Critics say the new reading requirements infringe on religious freedoms and blur the separation of church and state.

The Texas State Board of Education has approved a proposal that will establish lists of required reading — including Bible verses alongside classic titles — for its K-12 English and literature curriculum.

With the rapid development in AI-powered wearables, educators in East Asia are scrambling to deal with cheating students who wear smart glasses to exams. CNN’s John Liu reports.

A watchdog report alleges Missouri State University trained over 1,500 Chinese executives tied to China's military-industrial complex via an MBA program.

Gov. Newsom's proposed funding for teacher pregnancy leave currently includes paid leave for abortion procedures.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, faults the two schools’ probes and asks for their records.

The Ninth Circuit panel cited a recent Supreme Court emergency docket ruling to give California parents a win over the state's policy.

Nearly 50 years ago, the New York Times editorial page was an unlikely opponent of the department’s creation.

Representative Mike Collins defeats former college football coach Derek Dooley, while Rick Jackson selected as governor pick...

The dispute rejected by the Supreme Court involved the scope of students' free speech rights and schools' ability to restrict expression that could be viewed as reflecting their endorsement.

A series of alarming events at Oxford University.

The jump in sales tax receipts in the Louisiana parish provides a new talking point in the debate over the AI construction boom.

A judge ordered the deportation of student Mohsen Mahdawi, abducted from his naturalization proceedings last April.

A blind study conducted by researchers at Stanford Law School has revealed that law professors judged responses to law student questions generated by AI systems t be superior to answers written by fellow law professors in 75 percent of evaluated comparisons.

Elite colleges are tightening their test requirements after years of looser policies.

Economists at the New York Federal Reserve say they've identified the main reason some recent college grads are having trouble landing a job.

“Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?”...

Trump's approval rating dropped to 39% in the latest Emerson College poll, marking a new low in the group’s monthly tracking.

In a striking shift, White voters without college degrees who voted to reelect Trump by a huge margin are now net-negative on his job approval.

U.S. consumer sentiment fell to a record low this month as the conflict with Iran spurs anxiety about the economy, according to the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers. The university’s i…...

Asking Black athletes to sacrifice for the greater good could reshape college sports and national politics alike. But it won’t be so easy.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) accused the Yale School of Medicine of race-based discrimination in its admissions, alleging Thursday that the school favors Black and Hispanic students&nb…...

Vice President JD Vance — who compared himself to the kid in “Home Alone,” with both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in China this week — had the White House campus to himself on Wednesday for an event on fraud.

Only the acronyms have changed in the fight to purge the National Endowment for the Humanities and "woke" education...

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words...

New School administrators must hold the line against attempts to cut off Jewish communal life.

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The Education Department on Monday opened a Title IX investigation into Smith College, a private all-women’s school, for admitting transgender women. In a release, the Education Department wr…...

The protest organizers are calling for a boycott of work, school and shopping to protest Trump administration policies and what activists describe as a billionaire takeover of government.

Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.

As estimates suggest the U.S. has burned through substantial amounts of its missile stockpiles in the Iran war, Kuwait University Professor Bader Al-Saif joins Becky Anderson to discuss the long-term security concerns the war could pose for the Gulf region.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened an investigation into OpenAI over whether the company “bears criminal responsibility” for a shooting at Florida State University last year.

Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create "a clear legal requirement for schools".

The man who killed one tourist at a Mexican pyramid and wounded several others had materials in his backpack tied to a 1999 U.S. attack, a possible reference to the Columbine High School massacre.

There were landslides, flash floods and the closure of more than 100 schools in Wellington and the surrounding region.

A new poll conducted by Bowling Green State University (BGSU) found that GOP frontrunner Vivek Ramaswamy is in a dead heat with presumptive Democratic nominee Amy Acton in the Ohio gubernatorial ra…...