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The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.

A federal judge said that faculty members were being affected in their teaching and research by the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.

Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect, will encounter dwindling enrollment, lackluster reading scores and federal officials spoiling for a fight.

He was shot in 1970 by the National Guard during a student protest over the Vietnam War that left four dead in Ohio. A photo of him lying on the ground and bleeding made the cover of Life magazine.

Cameran Drew, 19, defeated his former high school government teacher, Kenneth Bell, by 10 votes for a seat on the Surry County Board of Supervisors this week. There are no hard feelings.

The teacher, Abigail Zwerner, was shot in the hand and chest by a first grade student who brought his mother’s gun to class in 2023.

There has been a shift in campus culture. We want to hear from faculty members across the United States.

In response to news that 12th-grade reading scores are at a 30-year low, teenagers diagnose the problem — and warn of the high stakes for their generation.

The Tennessee university has promised to make repairs to the General Theological Seminary buildings as it establishes a satellite campus in Chelsea.

Anthony Lennon, a convicted sex offender from Oklahoma, was arrested in Canton, N.Y., where he was studying under an alias, the authorities said.

The mayoral candidate has said his education at Bowdoin College was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.

Heather K. Gerken, a voting rights scholar and former dean of Yale Law School, plans to intensify its emphasis on democracy as it girds for attacks from the Trump administration.

The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student media and said that news coverage could be published only online.

The Harvard Salient, a conservative outlet, used a phrase that was similar to a speech given by Hitler. Its independent board paused its operations over material it called “reprehensible, abusive and demeaning.”

Supporters of Abigail Spanberger, Virginia’s governor-elect, say they expect her to reverse efforts to impose conservative priorities on the state’s prestigious public university system.

An arts festival taps third- and fourth-graders to teach adults a thing or two about authenticity.

Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and tearing us apart.

More schools and governments are turning to tech bans to try to keep kids off screens. Do they work?

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now.

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The council says the county's special schools are full to capacity.

The university is looking to save £30m amid rising costs and a fall in international student numbers.

Georgia Gould says "too many families" feel they have to "really fight" for support.

Stourview Primary Academy says it is thriving again after it dropped from 85 pupils to fewer than 20.

Police say two teenagers and a man are arrested on suspicion of an imitation firearm.

The BBC has seen the report which points out issues with fire doors, fire exits and the storage of combustibles at Lenzie Academy.

A dozen schools in the Cathedral Schools Trust are shut or partially closed because of the two-day action.

The system is changing after the death of head Ruth Perry highlighted the pressure of inspections.

The advert seeks "an extraordinary tutor" required "to support child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."

The North East has seen the biggest fall in trainee teachers in England, down by 56% since 2019-20.

Many freshers come with high expectations of what they imagine will be the best years of their lives.

The Institute for Public Policy Research says there should be more comprehensive support for Send students in mainstream schools.

The DfE has announced it will raise tuition fees every year, and will bring in new V-levels after GCSEs.

With rising tuition fees and living costs, do higher graduate earnings cover the cost of a degree?

Free childcare support for working parents varies across the UK, depending on the child's age.

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Alaska's public schools are being used as emergency shelters, though many of the buildings are crumbling.

Alaska's public schools are being used as emergency shelters, though many of the buildings are crumbling. (Image credit: Eric Stone)

A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies.

A federal judge says the Trump administration "overplayed its hand" by inserting partisan language into workers' out-of-office autoreplies. (Image credit: Win McNamee)

A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump's policies.

A new lawsuit argues the latest changes to Public Service Loan Forgiveness could exclude public servants whose organizations have resisted President Trump's policies. (Image credit: Josh Lawton)

Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency.

Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency. (Image credit: Melissa Ann Pinney)

A new study says several states are doing the right things to get students to show up to school regularly.

A new study says several states are doing the right things to get students to show up to school regularly.

If the government shutdown isn't resolved by Nov. 1, some 65,000 low-income children will be at-risk of losing access to Head Start child care and early learning.

If the government shutdown isn't resolved by Nov. 1, some 65,000 low-income children will be at-risk of losing access to Head Start child care and early learning.

If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families.

If the government shutdown extends beyond Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children could be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. (Image credit: Cory Turner)

In Greece, fewer babies means difficult decisions, especially on remote islands where low birth rates are forcing some schools to close and raising questions about the future of island culture.

In Greece, fewer babies means difficult decisions, especially on remote islands where low birth rates are forcing some schools to close and raising questions about the future of island culture. (Image credit: Ayman Oghanna for NPR)

School leaders hope lockdown drills will help protect their students in the event of a mass shooting. But what does it do to students' mental health?

School leaders hope lockdown drills will help protect their students in the event of a mass shooting. But what does it do to students' mental health?

Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them.

Schools are grappling with how to prepare students for the possibility of gun violence without traumatizing them. (Image credit: Rodin Eckenroth)