Mayor Eric Adams’s remarks, aimed at a policy allowing students to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, came two days after the Trump administration expressed concern over such guidelines.
Members of high school chapters of Turning Point USA mourned a conservative power broker who took them, and their political might, seriously.
In “What Happened to Millennials,” Charlie Wells celebrates his anxious, unhappy, successful, pop-culture-obsessed, middle-aged, cringey cohort.
Public and private entities have been criticized over decisions to honor the right-wing activist, or their choice not to.
Publicolor, a nonprofit, gets teenagers painting. Usually they work in schools, but for a project downtown, they have a different canvas.
Sampling the outpouring of responses to a column by David Brooks about the shortcomings of the liberal approach to the nation’s ills.
Vouchers are spurring the growth of low-priced, Christian schools that often serve small populations of students. They’re also pushing up tuition prices.
Desmond Holly, 16, who is suspected of shooting and critically injuring two students, had been “radicalized by an extremist network,” the authorities said.
Enterprising students have been bringing the contraband of yesteryear to school in what they see as a “loophole” in cellphone bans.
In Science Practice, students analyze recent research studies across disciplines and come up with their own scientific questions.
The NYC Bird Alliance watches for birds that are getting lost in the lights of the 9/11 Tribute in Light. If too many birds are drawn to the lights, they are briefly turned off.
A.I. tools can hinder cognitive development in students. Parents are essential to fostering responsible use.
All three were in critical condition after the gunfire on the grounds of Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colo., which is southwest of Denver, according to the local sheriff’s office.
The city’s Head Start preschool programs will not be required to close this school year, but the change injected fresh uncertainty into an unsettled early childhood system.
Not only does Zohran Mamdani hold a commanding lead in the mayoral race, but a survey shows many voters find him inspirational.
In the country’s largest district to ban phones, students, teachers and parents reported some frustrations, but also benefits.
At a school with a basketball-themed curriculum, students were “dreaming big.” But could they find a buyer?
The enrollment of students learning English as a new language has soared in recent years. But a report found “systemic breakdowns” in their education.
While the impact of federal budget cuts and coming nutritional guidelines is uncertain, smaller changes have already arrived in school cafeterias.
High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well.
As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.
The ones that stuck with us, and the ones we’ve left behind.
The federal form, used to determine financial aid, will be available to the public on Oct. 1. Technical glitches that delayed the form for the past two years are said to have been resolved.
“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.
As the year begins in the city’s public school system, students and their parents have to adjust to a smartphone ban. The phones must be stored in pouches or lockers.
The Justice Department has challenged several states that offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, contending that the policies discriminate against U.S. citizens.
El estado estaría rechazando una práctica a la que los expertos en salud pública han atribuido durante décadas el mérito de limitar la propagación de enfermedades infecciosas.
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.
Alberta ordered schools to pull “inappropriate” books, but paused its plan after a large school district banned scores of books in an apparent effort to make a point.
Our reporters address reader concerns about K-12 schooling.
With Russian attacks ongoing and peace talks stalled, some students in Ukraine are attending classes underground. For some, it is their first in-person learning in more than three years of war.
President Trump has cut hundreds of thousands of jobs from the federal work force, disproportionately affecting Black employees.
Members of the group offered on Telegram to draw armed officers to schools, malls and airports, though their claims are unverified. Such false emergency calls have disrupted campus life in recent days.
The Education Department gave Denver Public Schools 10 days to ban transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
Residents of Minneapolis gathered to mourn the victims of a shooting at a Catholic school. Children and parents shared their fears about school safety.
The standards prohibit processed meat and limit the use of artificial sweeteners in meals served by nearly a dozen city agencies, including the Department of Education.
An attacker fired a rifle through the windows of a Roman Catholic church in Minneapolis where students were celebrating their first Mass of the new school year on Wednesday.
El gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele dijo que está restableciendo la disciplina en las escuelas y ahora se les exige a los estudiantes cumplir reglas de comportamiento, uniformes y cortes de cabello.
President Nayib Bukele says that his new education minister, a military officer, will restore discipline to schools where gangs once recruited. A school workers’ union called the appointment “absurd.”
It becomes the latest country to restrict phone use in schools, with a law that will go into effect in 2026.
President Trump wants to cut federal spending for education. The money often goes toward disadvantaged students in Republican states.
New Orleans after Katrina is a cautionary tale for every place in America that will one day face its own disaster.
Districts aiming to hire Black teachers, add Black history classes and talk about white privilege are increasingly under scrutiny, raising questions about what is legal, and also what works.
Schools across the country face increasing threats, but many students with disabilities don’t have a way to evacuate.
Zohran Mamdani’s coalition in the New York mayor’s race includes residents who have questioned whether they can afford to raise children in the city.
Volvamos a los viejos tiempos, cuando los estudiantes solo tenían celulares con tapa y aprendían más.
Surprise someone. Make them laugh and cry.
The Danish government announced this week that it planned to make books exempt from a 25 percent value-added tax.
Officials removed decade-old guidance outlining the rights of students who are still learning English, which could weaken support for immigrant children.
Let’s go back to the good old days when students had only flip phones and were learning more.
La ley indicaba que las escuelas públicas mostraran el decálogo en un lugar “notorio” de todas las aulas del estado antes del 1 de septiembre.
Artificial intelligence may change the world, but it probably won’t remake it.
The test is meant to filter out teachers who hold views “antithetical” to Oklahoma values.
The state law had said public schools would have to display the Ten Commandments in a “conspicuous” location in every classroom in Texas by Sept. 1.
A boom in private-school vouchers and home-schooling has created an enrollment crisis for public education.
Politicians used to care how much students learn. Now, to find a defense of educational excellence, we have to look beyond politics.
The Trump administration abruptly cut states’ access to Covid pandemic funding for school programs, saying they’d had enough time to spend it.
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some Republicans.
Five years after the global Covid pandemic was declared, there is widespread agreement that closing classrooms was devastating for children. Here is what leaders say they may do next time.
An estimated 15 colleges still required Covid vaccines for students as of late last year. No states require K-12 students to get the shots.
We explain the ways students haven’t recovered.
With little post-pandemic recovery, experts wonder if screen time and school absence are among the causes.
On the test, American fourth and eighth graders posted results similar to scores from 1995. It was a sign of notable stagnation, even as other countries saw improvements.
Voters in the Virginia suburbs shifted toward Trump. Some said they were still frustrated by pandemic closures and fights over gender, race and testing in schools.
Covid learning loss and chronic absenteeism aren’t going to fix themselves
There are some signs of resurging office attendance since Labor Day, and some companies are demanding that workers show up five days a week.
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
Republicans are already seeking to link Vice President Kamala Harris to pandemic school closures, which local teachers’ unions pushed to extend.
Teachers this year saw the effects of the pandemic’s stress and isolation on young students: Some can barely speak, sit still or even hold a pencil.
Federal pandemic aid helped keep school districts afloat, but that money is coming to an end.
Two new studies suggest that the largest single federal investment in U.S. schools improved student test scores, but only modestly.
Norms on attendance have changed, but it’s about more than Covid-era school closings.
Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.
Readers discuss the reasons for the spike since the pandemic and how to lure students back.
How the pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education.
Incidents of student misconduct have risen in New York City since pandemic disruptions, though serious crimes in schools have decreased.
The more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. And, experts say, extended closures did little to stop the spread of Covid.
Two readers call for more federal funding for care of the sick and the elderly. Also: Data on drivers; Covid lessons; diversity in college admissions.
Readers’ personal stories about how devastating it can be. Also: Redeeming cans to make a living; teacher shortages; religion at the border; lounging in bed.
In some districts, teachers are taking more sick days since the pandemic. A shortage of substitutes can make matters worse.
The chancellor said the “school system is more than prepared.” But when it was time to log on, many students could not.
Una demanda acusó al estado de no proporcionar una educación equitativa a estudiantes de bajos ingresos, negros e hispanos durante la pandemia.
A lawsuit accused the state of failing to provide an equal education to lower-income, Black and Hispanic students during the pandemic.
Look up data from the first detailed national study of learning loss and academic recovery since the pandemic.
What role may public health officials have played in fostering public distrust of them?
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
A sign that our Covid policies were not so out of line.
A new study found that California schools got positive results from a targeted investment in the science of reading — even with the challenges of pandemic recovery.
Mississippi has long had high childhood immunization rates, but a federal judge has ordered the state to allow parents to opt out on religious grounds.
The surge in offerings is a response to the pandemic, which revealed glaring income inequality, as well as inflation and the resumption of student loan payments, an expert said.
Portland students have struggled with absenteeism since the pandemic,
The effects of the pandemic on children are persistent and require urgent attention.
Schools reopened after the pandemic, but student attendance has not bounced back.
New federal data from the 2020-2021 school year shows the reach of online learning, the struggle to hire teachers and the lack of counselors.
Schools run by the Defense Department educate 66,000 children of civilian employees and service members.
And it’s damaging a generation.
The city faces billions in financial pressures in the coming years that threaten to worsen inequality across the nation’s largest school system.
It’s time to start asking if the culture wars actually matter to voters.
Apoorva Mandavilli, a health and science reporter for The New York Times, traveled across the country to learn how educators are preparing for the next pandemic.
Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
Attendance at school has come to feel more optional than it did before the pandemic.
Let’s bring back an era of accountability.
The epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina takes stock of school closures, mask mandates and the pandemic response.
How to get cleaner air in the nation's school buildings.
Scientists and educators are searching for ways to improve air quality in the nation’s often dilapidated school buildings.
Over the years, Mr. DeSantis embraced and exploited his Ivy League credentials. Now he is reframing his experiences at Yale and Harvard to wage a vengeful political war.
Too few schools have used Covid relief funds to improve air quality properly.
Despite billions in federal aid, students are not making up ground in reading and math: “We are actually seeing evidence of backsliding.”
The results are the federal government’s last major data release on the academic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
Pandemic aid was supposed to help students recover from learning loss, but results have been mixed.
Readers discuss how schools can help students who’ve fallen behind since the pandemic. Also: Jail reform; mercy for death row inmates; Dianne Feinstein.
The United States’ struggle to respond to the virus has highlighted the importance of communicating with the public, sharing data and stockpiling vital supplies.
Honest reflection is essential to ensure that the nation’s response to the next pandemic is better.
The latest test results continue a nearly decade-long decline. Try a sample quiz to test your knowledge.
Long school closures have put public education — and Randi Weingarten, the leader of a major teachers’ union — on the defensive.
In his most extensive interview yet, Anthony Fauci wrestles with the hard lessons of the pandemic — and the decisions that will define his legacy.
Under a bill that is expected to pass, employers won’t be able to turn down applicants because they are overweight.
As the nation’s schools ‘return to normal,’ teachers in an L.A. neighborhood hit hard by Covid are left to manage their students’ grief — and their own.
The group discusses social media, the return to in-person schooling and their hopes and fears for the future.
Covid disrupted education, and now the task is to build something new.
Readers react to an editorial urging employers to consider skills and experience, not just degrees. Also: Long Covid; Trump, RINO; online romance scams.
Learning delays and regressions were most severe in developing countries and among children from low-income backgrounds. And students still haven’t caught up.
A federal benefit guaranteeing free school meals to millions more students has expired as food prices have risen. Many families are feeling the pinch.
Readers laud Dr. Fauci for becoming a trusted voice on medical science. Also: Sandy Hook; a hospital model; learning during the pandemic; military spending.
We are going about education reform all wrong.
State Representative Joe Harding, a sponsor of the law that critics have called “Don’t Say Gay,” is accused of illegally obtaining or trying to obtain more than $150,000 in loans.
Plus, the White House is optimistic about winter.
In a so-called natural experiment, two school districts in Boston maintained masking after mandates had been lifted in others, enabling a unique comparison.
In a vacuum, test score declines look like bad news. But none of this happened in a vacuum.
Local districts decided whether to allow middle schools to use grades in choosing students. The majority chose to keep a less competitive lottery system that began during the pandemic.
The results, from what is known as the nation’s report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic’s devastating impact on students.
Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Connecticut overhauled the way it taught — and the way it ran the classroom. Every minute counted.
Readers respond to the latest Russian attacks in Ukraine. Also: The wonders of math; pandemic spending; Republicans and crime.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself.
The first standardized test results that capture how most city schoolchildren did during the pandemic offered a mixed picture.
Despite the Covid disruption, school test score declines look pretty modest.
Readers discuss new aspects of the workplace during the pandemic. Also: A political balance; Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev; student newspapers.
Readers discuss an investigation into the lack of secular education at New York’s yeshivas. Also: Outdoor dining; climate-crisis deniers.
Definitive statements on open questions isn’t the way.
Unprecedented federal aid could help schools dig out of pandemic problems — if they can figure out how to spend it in time.
“We need to show them: We’re back,” said the head of the principals’ union as children return to school Thursday with Covid restrictions largely ended.
Students are struggling, and not just on standardized tests.
Some of the nation’s poorest pre-K students are the last still under mask mandates, affecting enrollment.
Our democracy sprouts in the nursery of public schools — where students grapple, together, with our messy history and learn to negotiate differences.