Education

La taxonomía, o la ciencia de poner nombre a las especies, ha sido víctima de un amplio cambio en nuestras prioridades científicas. Pero la necesitamos más que nunca.

An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.

In tiny Wymore, Neb., a sleek new battery-powered school bus became a Rorschach test for the future.

The gift, made by Michael R. Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization, will also cover living expenses for some Johns Hopkins University students.

Naming species has been a victim of a broad shift in our scientific priorities. But we need it more than ever.

La herramienta estaba destinada a proporcionar estrategias educativas individualizadas para estudiantes de Los Ángeles. Sin embargo, antes de poder hacerlo, la empresa que la creó colapsó.

“Every day I have that test. Everything I do,” President Biden said in his ABC News interview. “Not only am I campaigning, but I’m running the world.”

One journalist, a resident of the beach town Avalon, N.J., wanted to find out.

Christian nationalists aim to impose their beliefs on others.

While serving a sentence for burglary, I enrolled in a college journalism class. When I interviewed my correctional officer, my world broadened.

Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

Schools ground migrant children and their families when everything else — the language, the city, the culture, the people — is brand-new.

A co-founder of the Center School in Manhattan, she implemented once-radical ideas that put the students first. She retired four decades later, at 91.

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.

District 15 dropped selective admissions for middle schools, and the schools are now more integrated than they were.

Breaking with segregation does not have to involve bitterness and decades of delays.

A part of the SAVE plan that would have cut monthly bills for millions of borrowers starting on July 1 was put on hold.

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.

Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, say that the workplace they once loved has been fractured by the Israel-Hamas war.

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.

Voters recalled a Southern California school board president after his conservative majority approved policies on critical race theory and transgender issues.

A $20 million program will give financial restitution to students who endured abuse and neglect at the hands of the state.

Gov. Jeff Landry wants his state to be at the forefront of a national movement to advance legislation with a Christian worldview.

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.

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.

California is the latest state to try to regulate the devices. But how far should the ban go? And will parents sign on?

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.

Many buildings lack air-conditioning, despite years of calls for improvements to old buildings.

A recent study ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities based on median rents, job opportunities and social metrics.

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.

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.

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.

We want to hear from you — students, parents and teachers — about a growing push to limit smartphone usage in schools.

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.

The department concluded that both schools failed to appropriately respond to complaints that campus protests had veered into antisemitism and anti-Arab discrimination.

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.

The bishops acknowledged the church’s role in operating schools where Native American children faced abuses and forced assimilation.

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.

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.

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.

Police arrested more than 20 pro-Palestinian demonstrators on U.C.L.A.’s campus after several physical confrontations with security guards.

A letter of recommendation from Judge Tanya S. Chutkan to the Citadel for Elias Irizarry.

In 1974, a high school commencement ceremony in Moore, Okla., was interrupted by a tornado warning. Decades later, students finally turned their tassels.

The university joins a small but growing number of elite colleges requiring SAT or ACT scores in applications once again.

In a unanimous decision, the university’s board of trustees also moved to disband a scholarship in Mr. Combs’s name amid investigations into abuse allegations.

An Orange County judge halted the labor action by academic workers after the university system said the walkout was causing students “irreparable harm.”

The exercise upset some high school students who were on a field trip to the Burlington Police Department this week.

The abrupt closure of the University of the Arts affects hundreds of faculty members and more than a thousand students.

A cultural historian, he was dismissed by Stanford over his opposition to the Vietnam War, a stance that became a cause célèbre of academic freedom.

Demonstrators had taken over the office at dawn and demanded that Stanford University trustees vote on divestment from companies said to support Israel’s military.

The teacher in Massachusetts, who has not been named, was placed on leave after also using a racial slur, the school superintendent said.

The speaker of the State House, Dade Phelan, survived a primary challenge from a Trump-backed activist, but many other Republican incumbents were ousted in bitter primary races.

Responses to an essay about the role of liberal arts in higher education. Also: Tim Scott; political violence; saving Marilyn Monroe’s house; FAFSA.

The landmark settlement that would create a revenue-sharing plan is part of a long arc of profits in college sports.

The Upper East Side college’s alumni include Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president.

La ceremonia de graduación es un raro ritual estadounidense que todavía tiene reglas y convoca la atención pública.

President Biden’s commencement address comes at a moment of military upheaval abroad, university protests at home and a looming rematch with former President Donald J. Trump.

When the police dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Virginia, several professors put their own safety and job security on the line to protect student protesters. Now, faculty members give us a closer look into what happened.

In a conversation at Harvard, the justice spoke of her despair at some of the court’s decisions, but she urged optimism and a focus on future generations.

Many officials may be confronting federal investigations, disputes over student discipline — and the prospect that the protests start all over again in the fall.

The students were protesting Harvard University’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza.

Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.

The Republican of New York was already a rising star within her party before the Israel-Hamas war turbocharged concerns about antisemitic incidents in American education.

The House member from North Carolina attributes her blunt conservative politics to her pulled-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps life.

The House committee’s school choices suggest a shift in focus, from the larger issue of campus antisemitism to pro-Palestinian encampments and their organizers.

Anger at the university’s decision to bar 13 seniors from the ceremony in the wake of campus demonstrations over the war in Gaza was a flashpoint for the protest on Thursday.

The leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers and the University of California, Los Angeles, appeared to have navigated their testimony before Congress without many significant missteps.

The billionaire Rob Hale gave the 1,200 graduates of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth a gift, and asked them to give, too.

University of California, Los Angeles, officials have been widely criticized for their failure to stop attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters at a campus demonstration.

Dorothy Jean Tillman II of Chicago made history as the youngest person to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health at Arizona State University.