The city loosened selection criteria during the pandemic, policies some parents protested as unfair and others hoped would reduce racial disparities.
Most social services come through the schools — but it can be impossible to get to them.
The first standardized test results that capture how most city schoolchildren did during the pandemic offered a mixed picture.
Finding analogies for big successes by the party out of power.
About 50 K-12 school districts announced that they would close, along with about 30 colleges and universities.
Want to use intriguing photographs to help students practice visual thinking and close reading skills? This guide can help you get started.
An unidentified gunman entered a school in the city of Izhevsk, killing four adults and 11 children, according to federal investigators.
A new history by Donald Yacovone examines the racist ideas that endured for generations in educational materials.
There may not be spots for all in the city’s fledgling preschool program for 3-year-olds. Also, a message of endurance in a synagogue’s stained-glass window.
Want to know how few students pay full price, or the odds of getting merit aid? The so-called Common Data Set can help, but some schools don’t post it.
En las ciudades recuperadas por el ejército de Ucrania, los funcionarios intentan identificar y castigar a quienes ayudaron al enemigo. Eso está dividiendo a algunas comunidades.
Mayor Eric Adams is reassessing how New York City’s so-called 3-K for All program, a top priority of his predecessor, fits into his administration’s strategy.
Despite the Covid disruption, school test score declines look pretty modest.
In the midst of a debate about the content being presented in America’s schools, the equally pressing issue of how teachers teach is in danger of being lost.
“Serial” is a podcast from the creators of “This American Life," hosted by Sarah Koenig. “Serial” tells one story — a true story — over the course of a season.
Readers discuss new aspects of the workplace during the pandemic. Also: A political balance; Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Gorbachev; student newspapers.
The state’s Department of Education issued guidelines that would require students to file legal documents to be called by different pronouns.
Experts worry that aspects of President Biden’s debt relief plan could lure unscrupulous schools and unknowing students.
Readers react to a dozen essays trying to answer “What Is School For?”
An illustrated tale of immigration and belonging.
Many families can borrow most of the cost of college using a Parent PLUS loan. This will not end well.
Politicians have known for years about the crisis facing New York’s Hasidic schools but failed to act in any meaningful way.
To mark Banned Books Week, the American Library Association released a report on the rise in censorship efforts: In 2022, there have been attempts to restrict access to 1,651 titles.
A new state law banning guns in certain public places concerns those who like to commemorate famous battles of the past.
The American Ballet Theater dancer announced an extracurricular initiative that Copeland hopes will bring more Black and Latino children to dance.
Public schools are increasingly using savings from solar energy to upgrade facilities, help their communities, and give teachers raises — often with no cost to taxpayers.
Columbia University skidded to No. 18, suggesting that the ratings may be flawed and easily manipulated. But for many families, the list is a marker of prestige.
Our reporters did hundreds of interviews and read thousands of pages of documents to investigate the shortcomings of secular education in yeshivas.
Why we keep having school anxiety dreams, and what they may mean.
Readers discuss an investigation into the lack of secular education at New York’s yeshivas. Also: Outdoor dining; climate-crisis deniers.
The State Board of Regents on Tuesday enacted regulations aimed at holding New York private schools to minimum academic standards.
After a New York Times investigation found that many of the private religious schools denied students a basic education, top officials voiced serious concerns.
Readers discuss whether it is, in one writer’s words, “time to wind up the affairs of ‘the firm.’” Also: Rudy Giuliani; Navy SEALs; the nursing shortage.
Amid calls for intervention, the state Board of Regents is set to vote this week on new rules for holding private schools to minimum academic standards.
How readers across the country pray with their families.
די חסידישע מוסדות אין ניו יארק האבן גענאסן פון 1 ביליאן דאלאר אין רעגירונגס געלטער דורכאויס די לעצטע פיר יאר אבער מוזן קיינעם נישט אפגעבן קיין דין וחשבון וואס מען לערנט ביי זיי
New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight.
Republicans across the country are trying to use the power of the state to restrict speech.
Definitive statements on open questions isn’t the way.
Readers discuss Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat’s criticism of the Philadelphia speech. Also: Reasons for the teacher shortage; the reusable bag glut.
Media literacy efforts are intensifying, targeting students as they approach voting age. But some educators struggle “to push through that apathy.”
In a political environment where book-banning efforts are being used to drive voter sentiment, librarians find themselves on the front lines.
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.
Kaitlyn Greenidge and Esau McCaulley discuss why America’s schools can’t get on the same page about required reading lists.
What happened when a superintendent in northern Michigan raised the issue of systemic racism?
Classes resumed on Tuesday in the South Texas community where a mass shooting in May took the lives of 19 students and two teachers.
The shutdown of a high school newspaper in Nebraska is only the latest episode in efforts to censor student publications across red states.
When I sent my kids back to school this year, I sent them with my prayers.
“Extraordinary Attorney Woo” has raised awareness of autism in South Korea, where developmental disabilities are still a taboo subject for many people.
New education standards that touch on gender identity have caused a stir in New Jersey. Some Republicans are trying to keep the conversation alive.
For those lucky enough to have schools to return to, back-to-school day is still colored by war. Schools must now have bomb shelters, and first-aid kits are handed out along with pens and paper.
What is school really for? Students at Oakland’s Fremont High answer this question with their cameras.
School is for nurturing children’s innate talents and helping them figure out where those gifts, necessarily diverse, fit in the whole.
Our democracy sprouts in the nursery of public schools — where students grapple, together, with our messy history and learn to negotiate differences.
Merit demands excellence and rigor. It is not, as its critics often insist, an elitist, classist or racist value.
All kinds of kids, from all kinds of families — rich, poor and middle class — need more help with reading than they’re getting in school.
Public education requires lessons about history and also contact with and context about other Americans: who we are and what has made us.
If politics is the art of the possible, perhaps the biggest silver lining of these past two years has been to redefine what is possible.
It can be a safe haven for our most vulnerable children.
Many migrant parents believe that American schools promise their children the opportunity for a better life.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
Writers, parents and students make sense of education’s purpose in America.
An estimated 2.8 million of the nation’s six million children have been forced from their homes because of the war. If they are fortunate enough to find a seat in a classroom, it will probably be in an unfamiliar town or city.
Twelve public school teachers joined Times Opinion to discuss the state of education today.
The results of a national test showed just how devastating the last two years have been for 9-year-old schoolchildren, especially the most vulnerable.
The new course will undergo a pilot program in 60 schools, as the debate over how to teach history becomes ever more divisive.
We look back at conversations with some of the survivors of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Urgently needed: teachers in struggling districts, certified in math or special education. Perks: maybe a pay raise, or how about a four-day week?
“The Stolen Year,” by Anya Kamenetz, is an account of Covid’s devastating effects on American youth.
Plus the Philippines reopens schools and China raises interest rates.
More than two years after Covid emptied their classrooms, students are resuming in-person learning. The lost time will be hard to make up.
Según los expertos, los niños no tienen riesgo alto de infección. Pero ofrecen consejos para cuidar a todos en el regreso a clases, desde los más pequeños hasta los universitarios.
Experts say children are not at a high risk of infection. But they have advice to keep everyone — from toddlers to college kids — safe.
The city Education Department has ended most Covid restrictions for students, although teachers still have to be vaccinated.
En las nuevas recomendaciones la carga de la protección recae en los individuos. A continuación explicamos cómo proceder.
Readers debate the party’s strategy of supporting far-right G.O.P. candidates it thinks it can beat. Also: Covid and schools; Ukraine’s students; Kansas and abortion.
The new recommendations put the onus on individuals to protect themselves. Here’s how to navigate them.
The new guidelines eliminate quarantines and put less emphasis on social distancing, routine surveillance testing and contact tracing.
The crisis kids face at this point in the pandemic is not the virus but the cost of so many years of disrupted school.
As coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths in New York tick up as a result of the rapidly spreading Omicron subvariant known as BA.5, Gov. Kathy Hochul held her first Covid briefing in months.
As coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths in New York tick up as a result of the rapidly spreading Omicron subvariant known as BA.5, Gov. Kathy Hochul held her first Covid briefing in months.
A new report estimates that it may take students at least three to five years to recover from the pandemic. Federal relief money will most likely have run out by then.
Masks will become optional in Hawaii’s schools when the new academic year starts on Aug. 1, as the state tries for “a more normal classroom experience this fall,” a state health official said.
The city’s teachers, who sued over vaccine requirements, said the judges assigned to the case owned thousands of dollars of Covid-19 vaccine-maker stock, which could affect their rulings.
Young violists and sax players in Brooklyn get reacquainted with their instruments, and with one another: “You have to play in harmony.”
Young violists and sax players in Brooklyn get reacquainted with their instruments, and with one another: “You have to play in harmony.”
New York City is still strongly recommending that masks be worn indoors for people of all ages, however, as new, confirmed coronavirus cases still remain at a high level despite recent declines.
In a Times survey, counselors said students are behind in their abilities to learn, cope and relate.
The moves are a sign that while the academic year may be coming to a close, the pandemic is still not.
With cases rising again, the superintendent said that as the pandemic evolves, “so too will our response to it.”
Today’s culture wars treat teachers like political prisoners or, even worse, the enemy.
The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation’s public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed.
Readers ponder an impending horrible milestone. Also: Grief in our times; college debt; policies and public opinion; students’ letters.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.
New research is showing the high costs of long school closures in some communities.
Readers discuss the Florida Department of Education’s objections to some of the topics in math textbooks. Also: The Ukraine war; mask mandates.