Joanna Smith-Griffin was charged with lying to investors about revenue and her customer base, which she claimed included some of the nation’s largest school districts, including New York City’s.
Linda McMahon is known for her many years in the wrestling world. Though her education experience is more limited than previous secretaries, she has embraced both conservative and bipartisan ideas.
Readers respond to a guest essay about ... reading (in college). Also: What Ukraine needs; “profiles in cowardice”; who we are as Americans.
McMahon, amiga y financiadora de Donald Trump, es una ejecutiva sin formación docente ni mayor experiencia profesional en la dirección de la política educativa.
A friend and financial backer of Donald J. Trump’s, Ms. McMahon, who led the Small Business Administration during his first term, remained close to him during the campaign.
A man drove a car into a group of people near an elementary school in Changde, a city in Hunan Province, on Tuesday, injuring multiple students.
School districts serving more than two million elementary-school children would be able to adopt a curriculum that draws on the Bible.
Questions about the president-elect’s plan, and a call for protests. Also: Tears after the election; funds for education; a roofless stadium in Buffalo.
A report from the Central Park Conservancy recommends changes in the park’s roads to protect walkers from fast-moving cyclists.
A look into the Japanese educational system’s delicate balancing of teamwork, discipline and personal growth.
A look into the Japanese educational system’s delicate balance between teamwork, discipline and personal growth.
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.
Readers discuss the president-elect’s staff selections. Also: A bill to fight obesity; teaching core skills; Social Security math; alcohol and fine art.
A new curriculum would focus on Christianity more than other religions. A kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule, for example, would teach about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount.
A record 146,000 students did not have permanent housing, state data shows, as the city dealt with an ongoing housing crisis and an influx of migrants.
The police said the St. Helens School District was informed of the abuse allegations as early as 2019 but officials failed to alert the authorities.
Readers discuss a David Brooks column about how the less educated are being left behind.
He headed a commission that documented widespread abuse in Canada’s boarding schools for Indigenous children and sought to correct the history of Indigenous people.
Donald Trump said he would use the department to further his priorities. He also said he would close it. Both options would face difficulties.
Is the best we can hope for the failing status quo?
Democrats lost sight of the nation’s greatest inequality: Education.
The ruling is probably the first in what could be a long legal fight for conservative Christian groups hoping to amplify public expressions of faith.
The Manhattan church said it would turn over administration of its boarding school for choristers, one of only a few of its kind remaining, because of financial woes.
Tracey Collins, a high-ranking Department of Education adviser, stepped down amid allegations that her position was a “no-show” job.
Argentina ha sido conocida como uno de los países más socialmente progresistas de América Latina. Ahora, las medidas de austeridad del presidente Javier Milei han recortado los programas destinados a ayudar a las mujeres.
Argentina has been known as one of Latin America’s most socially progressive countries. But President Javier Milei’s austerity measures have cut programs aimed at helping women.
Quienes tratamos con condescendencia a Donald Trump deberíamos sentirnos humildes: hizo algo que ninguno de nosotros podría hacer.
The results were part of a wave of ballot measure outcomes that teachers’ unions had sought. Nevertheless, private-school choice is growing nationwide.
Donald Trump is a monstrous narcissist, but there’s something off about an educated class that looks in the mirror of society and sees only itself.
La lengua cia-cia se ha transmitido oralmente durante siglos. Ahora los niños del pueblo cia-cia aprenden a escribirla en hangul, la escritura coreana.
Now that the votes are almost in, the Headway Election Challenge asks teenagers for the lessons they are taking away from this election year.
Readers discuss university governance and identity politics. Also: An election absence from school; feeling “despairalyzed”; a Marathon memory; a wedding dress.
Robert Treviño, who has drawn acclaim for recent recordings, learned music in public school and wants to break down barriers for others.
The Cia-Cia language has been passed down orally for centuries. Now the tribe’s children are learning to write it in Hangul, the Korean script.
One week into the job, the Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson resigned amid criticism by elected leaders that his past posts were anti-Semitic and misogynistic.
A record number of books were banned in districts across the country during the 2023-2024 school year, according to a free speech organization.
Teens share their best advice for spotting misinformation and staying sharp during a turbulent election season.
Attendance on Wednesday, or whatever day the results are announced, is optional for high school students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York City, families were told.
Responses to the Headway Election Challenge paint a picture of teenagers navigating a highly charged political moment.
We’ve heard from teachers around the country about how they’re teaching the 2024 election. Here’s what students in three New York City classrooms are learning.
Pizza Hut’s Book It! literacy program, founded in 1984, has reached more than 70 million students — and counts the radio host Charlamagne Tha God among its fans.
Prosecutors said that the “kingpin,” a high school basketball coach in Houston, had helped educators fraudulently pass more than 400 tests.
A ballot initiative targets tests rather than fixing problems in the system.
In Chicago, the mayor and the teachers’ union are tightly connected. The relationship has ushered in generous spending and led to political turmoil.
After he was mugged, he took a therapist’s advice to work with “difficult students at a difficult school.” They ignored him until the lessons turned to business.
A ballot measure would do away with the requirement that high schoolers pass a test to graduate. Opponents say it could water down academics for struggling students.
Democrats swept a school board election in Bucks County after Republicans instituted book bans and other changes. But the right-wing “parental rights” movement has left an indelible mark.
From the early 1800s to the late 1960s, the federal government forced Native American children into boarding schools where they faced abuse and neglect that led in some cases to death.
The former president’s most disturbing statements are not bluster. They are a road map to what he will do if elected again.
President Biden’s trip to the battleground state of Arizona will be the first time an American president has apologized for the abuses that happened at the schools over a period of 150 years.
A projected 5 percent drop in this year’s freshman class follows a number of disruptions last year, including persistent failures with the FAFSA form.
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.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
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.
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.