2021-07-14 After Enrollment Drops, Public Schools Hope Students Return for Autumn
Ashley Pearce’s child was ready to start kindergarten last year in Maryland’s Montgomery County public school system. But when she…
2021-07-11 Restoring Cars, Building Million Dollar Homes: CTE Students Do It All
Seventeen-year-old Charles Wilkinson will not go to college after completing his study at Edison High School last June. That does…
2021-07-07 Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Takes Job at Howard University after Tenure Fight
Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, decided on Tuesday she would not accept a position at the University of North…
2021-07-07 What Is Critical Race Theory?
Over the past few months in the United States, the expression “critical race theory,” or CRT, has appeared in statehouses…
2021-07-02 UNC Officials Award Tenure to Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones
Officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, UNC, approved tenure for Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. The…
2021-06-30 Students Use 1619 Project to Learn Legacy of Racism, Slavery
Several American states have proposed new legislation and policies controlling how the history of race and slavery is taught in…
2021-06-27 MacKenzie Scott Donates Over $2 billion to 286 Organizations, Colleges
MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, recently donated over $2 billion to hundreds of organizations, including…
2021-06-24 US Supreme Court Sides with Student over School in Free Speech Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a high school violated a student’s free speech rights by punishing her for…
2021-06-23 Legislators, Educators, Students Push for Asian American Studies in Schools
U.S. lawmakers, educators and students are among those pushing for all school-age children to be taught more Asian American history.…
2021-06-22 US Court Backs Payment to Student-Athletes in NCAA Case
The highest court in America ruled Monday that the college sports organization NCAA cannot limit education-related payments to its student-athletes.…
2021-06-20 Some US Students Choose Career Training over College
One morning in June, A.J. Muir, an 18-year-old high school student from Springfield, Virginia, was taking a test in an…
2021-06-17 Biden Administration Cancels Student Loans for Cheated Borrowers
The U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday that it is cancelling the student loans of thousands of borrowers who attended…
2021-06-16 After a Year Learning from Home, Many Children Go to Summer School
After her three children were vaccinated, Aja Purnell-Mitchell asked them what they wanted to do for the summer. All three…
2021-06-13 TOEFL ‘Essentials’: A Shorter, Less Costly English Test
The TOEFL iBT has been the most common English test for international students seeking entrance to American colleges. This year,…
2021-06-09 Legal Case Says Acceptance Policy Discriminates Against Asians
A discrimination case involving Asian Americans at a top public high school in the state of Virginia is moving ahead.…