Cathedral High School fired a teacher in a same-sex marriage on Sunday, just days after another Catholic school in Indianapolis defied a similar order from the archdiocese.
Parents and teachers can use the time leading up to the test to help minimize children’s fears.
In defending his comments about working with segregationists, Joe Biden cited his record on civil rights and his relationship with Ted Kennedy. But he didn’t address his opposition to busing.
Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School learned Thursday that the Archdiocese of Indianapolis would no longer recognize it as a Catholic school.
New York City’s new discipline code could have an immediate impact.
We invited students to create original podcasts. Here are the winners, runners-up and honorable mentions.
A selection of compelling articles from the 2018-19 school year, each with questions and activities for helping students understand the piece and connect it to their own lives.
Mr. Sparks apologized for comments he made in emails released as part of a lawsuit that claims he spread a rumor an ex-employee had Alzheimer’s.
The data underscores what testing experts have long emphasized: Income, race and privilege can influence a process that is supposed to be a level playing field.
“We are really wanting this to be a preventive, proactive measure,” said the superintendent of the school district in Nebraska.
As immigrant families forgo services or are dropped from public assistance, schools are seeing their student populations undercounted and their funding cut.
Residents of Benton Harbor say they know their schools are ailing, but they see racial bias in plans to close their main high school.
Excellence is not a zero sum game.
The tumultuous rollout of a new government program to provide tuition-free high school for all has left students going to school in shifts, and parents paying for tutors.
Almost a decade into a fight over education funding, the state’s highest court declared Friday that Kansas finally was spending enough money on its public schools.
An after-school program invites students to build small sailboats from scratch, then test them out on the water.
We challenged teenagers to create blackout poetry from pages of the print New York Times, and we told them to surprise us. They did.
Like many other progressive hopes, the teacher pay proposals from 2020 Democratic presidential candidates need a bit more focus.
The 2020 contender talks Trump, jobs and higher education.
About half of the student body at one Ohio elementary school has witnessed drug use at home. Educators spend time every day teaching the children how to cope.
A Wisconsin city is due to vote next week on a bill that would impose fines on parents whose children bully others, a measure several municipalities have already tried.
The Cooking Place, on the second floor of its flagship Upper West Side location, will host a variety of classes, covering topics like Chinese takeout and knife skills.
Why are some small towns thriving?
As the architect of higher education policy, Diane Auer Jones is pushing to overhaul accreditation, and, to critics, revive the fortunes of “bottom feeder” for-profit colleges.
A school neuropsychologist says she has seen the problem directly.
Three years after the school board passed a resolution mandating climate justice education in all public schools, a rollout may be coming.
Erica Takato had trained for a profession that is crucial for Japan: teaching preschool. Then she got pregnant and was hounded from her job.
There was viral outrage online, and the story could have ended there. But it didn’t.
This week my daughter’s school became the first in the nation to pilot facial-recognition software. The technology’s potential is chilling.
Graduation guidance, e-learning around the globe, a scholarship program for refugees — and more. A collection of views and news from a special report on Learning.
A number of secondary schools around the world offer robotics programs to prepare students for industries being transformed by automation.
A reader encourages schools to offer creative spaces for their students, which can pay off later in life.
The drop in black and Hispanic student admissions to New York’s specialized high schools led to an impassioned discussion among readers with personal experiences at them.
Georgia Clark, a teacher in the Fort Worth Independent School District, had implored the president in public Twitter posts to rid her school of undocumented immigrants.
Georgia Clark, a teacher in the Fort Worth Independent School District, had implored the president to rid her school of undocumented immigrants.
When I attended Bronx Science, the student body was 23 percent black and Hispanic. Its ethnic makeup is very different today.
At one school, black and Hispanic enrollment plummeted to 14 percent from 50 percent. At another, it went to 4 percent. “What has happened?” a black alumna asked.
The market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways, new data reveals.
Some clever studies have teased out causal effects by taking advantage of natural experiments.
A school made headlines for sending black students to elite campuses, but it was too good to be true.
In this season of prizes and trophies, we salute all the students whose talents lie outside the arena.
Call them Generation O, the children growing up in families trapped in a relentless grip of addiction, rehab and prison.
We’ve got budget, retirement account, credit, information security and insurance advice for your independent adult, college student, gap-year taker or future soldier.
The TV series premiere from The New York Times on FX and Hulu.
The Diverse Charter Schools Coalition takes issue with a proposal by Bernie Sanders.
Mr. Biden promoted the plan, the first policy of his campaign, at a town-hall event with the American Federation of Teachers in Houston on Tuesday.
The surge, not seen since 2015, was yet another sign of the deteriorating security situation across Afghanistan.
An education nonprofit says the tax on non-tuition college assistance is a poor reflection of our country’s values.
A reader says schools have a way of ruining true learning.