Education
Analysis and reporting on America’s schools, from kindergarten to college.
The number of first-time filers has dropped 40 percent since the new FAFSA’s bungled rollout.
Minnesota found a way to make college a good deal.
What banning phones in schools can — and can’t — do.
Why so many college applicants are worried about being able to afford school.
Yale and Dartmouth are bringing testing back — but thousands of other schools aren’t.
In a dissenting opinion, Alito takes a potshot at Bush’s signature racial justice program.
The guy behind the Harvard lawsuit attacking affirmative action turns his ire on the service academies.
For the third time in the last year, the Supreme Court turned away an opportunity to make life much worse for trans youth.
The fight over plagiarism is the harbinger of a messy new era.
What it means to be “chronically absent” — and why it matters.
Harvard’s former president is just one target in the conservative uproar over higher education.
A simple question about genocide at a congressional hearing obscured a complicated debate about antisemitism and free speech.
A First Amendment lawyer argues the university’s role in a crisis should be shutting up.
The big divide on premature death isn’t between college grads and non-grads. It’s between high school dropouts and everyone else.
Private school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war.
Legacy and geographic preferences will continue to favor white applicants, a new study finds.
SAVE, Biden’s new income-based repayment plan, could significantly bring down your monthly payments.
The new war over AP Psychology is a glimpse at the confusing future of education in the state.
A huge shift in how kids are taught to read is underway. But the reading wars probably aren’t gone for good.
Even after receiving backlash from fellow Republicans, the Florida governor is tripling down on the state’s controversial Black history standards.
A Harvard professor accused of research fraud brings a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the university and her accusers. What comes next?
There’s still time to help student debtors before loan repayment begins — but it means changing course.
The Court’s decision will almost certainly have the same effect as a total ban on race-conscious admissions.
Legacy admits, athletic recruits, and the children of donors, faculty members, and VIPs still have a leg up under the Supreme Court’s new ruling.
The major questions doctrine, explained.
What Oakland’s teachers union reveals about labor strikes in 2023.
More than 800,000 borrowers are now eligible for student loan forgiveness. Here’s what that means for you.
The Supreme Court struck down Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan and payments are restarting. What is the potential economic fallout?
The Court’s decision in Biden v. Nebraska is nothing more than an exercise of raw power. It bears no resemblance to actual law.
Everything you need to know about the two cases that will likely have sweeping implications for race-conscious admissions at US colleges and beyond.
The Supreme Court just effectively ended colleges’ ability to consider race in admissions. Here’s what could happen next.
Here’s what’s really behind the right-wing campaign on academic freedom.
DeSantis’s Florida bills targeting LGBTQ people, abortion rights, and teachings on race preview his presidential platform.
A Florida school has restricted who can read “The Hill We Climb,” a poem read at Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
New election results suggest voters are mixed at best on the GOP’s educational culture wars.
Eric Hanushek’s influential arguments on school funding shaped policy for four decades. Has he changed his mind?
Libraries bolster democracy. Republicans want to get rid of them.
The confusing future of standardized testing, explained.
Though less ambitious, two bills could still dramatically alter higher education in the state if signed into law.
From book bans to a hostile campus takeover, here’s a rundown of DeSantis’s conservative plan for Florida education.