Travis Brenda defeated Jonathan Shell, a powerful state legislator, in a G.O.P. primary, amid anger over changes to the state pension system.
Readers discuss reasons for the trend, and how it may be reversed.
Officers in Germany recently caught 21 families trying to travel a few days before official vacations, when tickets often cost less. The fine is up to $1,200.
Gavin Grimm was barred from using the boys’ restrooms at his Virginia high school. He sued in a case that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
While homicide is among the leading causes of death for young people generally, killings at school are rare, compared with the home or the neighborhood.
Despite some opposition to one district’s middle-school integration plan, there is a growing sense in the city that it is time to act on segregation.
The city broke up big failing schools to improve academics, but at the small schools that replaced them, fielding a robust music program is a challenge.
Speaking out in a community like Marshall County, Ky., has come at a social cost, including frayed friendships and fights with parents.
Here we were, 80 eager physicians from across North America in a large teaching kitchen in northern California.
A retired teacher turned his Manhattan apartment into a shrine to his school years. Now he’s expanding his collection citywide, to showcase his love for all things vintage public schools.
Students in an age of school shootings routinely consider the safety of their classrooms, running scenarios about how likely they are to get shot.
Readers stress the importance of music and the arts in public schools.
Investigators say the Santa Fe shooting suspect, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, left some students alive in order to “have his story told.”
For many in Santa Fe, the past year has drawn on all the reserves of faith they have. First, Hurricane Harvey. And then Friday’s mass shooting.
Officials stressed that buses are the safest way to carry students, though seatbelts are still not required in most states.
“I’ve always kind of felt like eventually it was going to happen here, too,” one student said after the massacre at Santa Fe High School.
Under Betsy DeVos, the Education Department has virtually given up investigating abuses by pro-profit schools.
If you were giving a commencement speech, what would you say? What do you wish you had known when you were a 20-something?
A stronger economy makes it more likely that graduates will be able to find jobs and meet their loan payments, but there are reasons to be cautious.
The bus, from a Paramus middle school, wound up on the median of I-80, and the authorities were investigating if the driver missed an exit and tried to make an illegal U-turn.
“Women’s colleges are an American phenomenon”: An interview with Meredith Woo, president of Sweet Briar.
A resourceful Congolese man turns scraps into a soccer ball for village children, so they can play the sport they love.
In your opinion, is music a valuable part of the education experience? Why do you think the way you do?
When you consider all of Chris Paul’s accomplishments and achievements, which is the most impressive, in your opinion, and why?
Should trans fats be banned around the world?
State control of education helps explain why walkouts have happened in North Carolina and five other states, but not in others.
This word has appeared in 25 articles on nytimes.com in the past year.
In visits to two Orthodox schools, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos offered her strongest comments to date in support of public funding for religious schools.
On average, teachers who reported using their own money for the classroom spent $479 each during the school year, according to a Department of Education survey.
Find the character in the words on the page, he instructed Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Rachel Weisz and others.
A state investigation found “substantial evidence” of discrimination in North Bend, a conservative area on Oregon’s southern coast.
The long-running historical video game franchise has debuted an educational mode for its latest release, set in Ptolemaic Egypt.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on encouraging an employer to come out against gun violence, false bravado in school-shooter training and more.
The parents of two students who were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School say they want a voice on matters of school safety.
Ibraheem was just a regular kid — until he lost everything.
After the new schools chancellor reviewed the suits, Howard Kwait was transferred to an office position where he won’t be “permitted to manage other employees.”
The congressional watchdog found that the consultants pressured student borrowers to put their loans on ice, which allows borrowers to avoid default and schools to avoid losing federal funding.
Readers point to a simpler way to pay back loans and avoid ‘soul-crushing debt.’
Invite your students to practice for our Summer Reading Contest by choosing a piece and writing one sentence about why. We’ll publish their picks next week.
Stacy Bailey, an elementary school art teacher who was twice voted teacher of the year, is suing the school district and two officials for discrimination.
The measure is part of a sweeping deregulatory agenda that includes several rules and regulations for the department to scrap or amend.
Walkouts in Arizona and other states echo a long history of illegal strikes.
More than a dozen House Republicans created a petition to force votes on immigration legislation, hoping to settle the uncertain futures of the so-called Dreamers.
A public school teacher dispels a myth.
When the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra started an after-school music program 10 years ago, it had 30 students. Now it has 1,300 — and counting.
Some worry the themes in “George” are too advanced for elementary school children. Others love it for its message of inclusion.
He helped found both The Chronicle of Higher Education and Education Week, two national publications that helped set an agenda academic agenda.
Rider University’s plan to sell Westminster Choir College to a for-profit Chinese company, puts a spotlight on the struggle of smaller, regional colleges to stay afloat.
The Trump administration has made a priority of abstinence-only education — a practice that’s ineffective and spreads misinformation.
What walkouts show about the real power of organized labor.
A petition saying a key secondary-school test in the state of Baden-Württemberg used unfairly obscure vocabulary has gathered nearly 36,000 signatures.
Since Cynthia Nixon decided to challenge the governor for the Democratic nomination, he has shifted increasingly to the left. Let us count the ways.
Borrowers in the federal public-service loan forgiveness program have run into many problems. But one social worker managed to wipe out $170,000 in debt.
A study found that some colleges were hiring consultants to promote short-term fixes for borrowers that can mire them in more debt down the road.
State legislators refused protesters’ requests to raise income taxes on the wealthy, and instead turned to revenue sources that are likely to hit typical voters.
Through reporting on foreign teacher recruitment, Dana Goldstein came to understand hidden costs of our underfunded education systems.
New Yorkers are mounting encouraging local efforts to integrate intensely segregated public schools despite Mr. de Blasio’s reluctance.
The best teenage comments from last week’s writing prompts, and an invitation to join the conversation this week.
Citing a dearth of qualified local candidates, schools are increasingly turning to foreign educators in the Philippines to fill core teaching jobs.
New data shows that 40 percent of the city’s children don’t attend their neighborhood school, undermining the idea that residential patterns cause racial isolation.
Our June 15-Aug. 24 contest will be judged by Times journalists, and winners will be published on The Learning Network each week. Join us!
Just four weeks into his tenure, Richard Carranza marched into the issue of segregation in New York City’s schools with a tweet.
Mr. Loeb will exit at the end of his five-year term as chairman of the charter network’s board on July 1 and be replaced by Steven M. Galbraith.
The island’s share was roughly in line with other areas affected by last year’s hurricanes, but the damage is not comparable, leading to questions about the Education Department’s awards process.
Research shows a correlation between greater academic demands and a reduction in drinking, smoking and drug use.
It didn’t make sense to sign up for debt. I did it anyway.
Thanks to right-wing policies, red state educators have nothing left to lose.
Parents and students at Lenox Academy in Brooklyn said they were shocked by the arrest of Andre Braddy, a math teacher charged with sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy.
A reader objects to the 90-day stay that gives the Trump administration another chance to defend its plan to end DACA.
The walkouts are the latest surge of a protest movement that has already swept through West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky.
We’re angry: Our classrooms are falling apart. We work multiple jobs. Our party must stop its war on public education.
The young undocumented immigrants have seen their hopes alternately elevated and dashed, sometimes in a single week.
We’re angry: Our classrooms are falling apart. We work multiple jobs. Our party must stop its war on public education.
Swiping at Albany, the mayor increased education funds, then seemed to blame sexual harassment claims at schools on a “hyper complaint dynamic.”
Andre Braddy, 34, is accused of having had a sexual relationship with a boy at the Canarsie middle school where he worked.
Colleges may emphasize the amount of aid awarded, rather than the actual cost of attending a school, financial aid experts say.
Why Republicans ended up at war with America’s schoolteachers.