Month: August 2021

Seventeen-year-old Charles Wilkinson will not go to college after completing his study at Edison High School last June. That does not mean Wilkinson will face an uncertain future. In fact,…

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, decided on Tuesday she would not accept a position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) but, rather, would continue her…

Over the past few months in the United States, the expression “critical race theory,” or CRT, has appeared in statehouses and political gatherings from almost nowhere. CRT has become an…

Officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC, approved tenure for Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. The decision came after weeks of tension and protest at the…

Several American states have proposed new legislation and policies controlling how the history of race and slavery is taught in public schools. Some single out The New York Times’ 1619…

MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently donated over $2 billion to hundreds of organizations, including colleges and universities. She is one of the wealthiest women…

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a high school violated a student’s free speech rights by punishing her for a social media post. By a vote of 8-1, the…

U.S. lawmakers, educators and students are among those pushing for all school-age children to be taught more Asian American history. The Asian American Student Union at Farmington High School in…

The highest court in America ruled Monday that the college sports organization NCAA cannot limit education-related payments to its student-athletes. The letters NCAA stand for National Collegiate Athletic Association. The…

One morning in June, A.J. Muir, an 18-year-old high school student from Springfield, Virginia, was taking a test in an empty classroom. It was not an English or math test.…

The U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday that it is cancelling the student loans of thousands of borrowers who attended a big, for-profit college. The loans were taken by students…

After her three children were vaccinated, Aja Purnell-Mitchell asked them what they wanted to do for the summer. All three agreed: summer school—at school, itself. Aja Purnell-Mitchell stands next to…

The TOEFL iBT has been the most common English test for international students seeking entrance to American colleges. This year, there will be a shorter, less costly test called TOEFL…

A discrimination case involving Asian Americans at a top public high school in the state of Virginia is moving ahead. A federal judge in late May ruled that a parents’…

When Samantha Maltais arrives at Harvard this autumn, she will be the first member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe to attend its law school. In some ways, she will be…