Some 48,000 students returned to class this week for the first time since the earthquake. Even before the quake, the school system had wrestled with tumult.
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We focus on outliers and ignore systemic injustice.
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The action comes during a year of teacher protests, which until now had been at district schools in conservative or swing states.
Educators in a remote valley in India devised a community approach to instructing students when teachers were sparse. It’s catching on.
We can send every child to school by 2030. Here’s how to pay for it.
Some students graduate from the ultra-Orthodox schools barely knowing how to read and write in English. New rules could force the schools to change how they operate.
Based on interviews with 46 people, including parents, former and current students and more, and examinations of legal and school records, The Times found the school abused students and doctored college applications.
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Many see the lack of civics in schools as a national crisis. A federal lawsuit says it also violates the law.
A new study raises questions about age, maturity and overdiagnosis.
The campaign gaffes of Mississippi’s newly elected senator reveal the way that the past is always present.
Mr. Levy, who was the chancellor of New York City’s vast public school system from 2000 to 2002, attracted thousands of new teachers by insisting on higher starting wages.
Institutions have been lobbying for less liability when it comes to sexual misconduct on campus. Now they’re finally getting it.
The superintendent said the school district was “not in a position” to discipline the students because of their First Amendment rights.
A new civic-education project in a Manhattan federal courthouse gives teenagers a positive experience with the law.
St. Michael’s College School was known for tradition, Catholic faith and elite sports. Then videos of hazing assaults began circulating, leading to students’ arrests.
Employing American football and chest-thumping chants, Tang Haiyan offers an answer to a country that worries that its sons are too coddled and feminine. “We will never cultivate sissies,” he says.
The $1.8 billion gift to Johns Hopkins is praised for its generosity, but some readers suggest that such a sum could be better spent to boost less elite institutions and students.
Today, I’ll be thinking about the best teachers I ever had.
The new educational standards also retained mentions of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, after there was talk of removing them. Critics say the changes don’t go far enough.
It is the largest outbreak in North Carolina since the chickenpox vaccine first became available in 1995.
A public advocacy group describes the advantages.
The term ‘nonbinary’ on school forms signals a new inclusiveness, experts say.
The donation would underwrite “need-blind” admissions and eliminate the need for low- and moderate-income students at the university to take out loans.
It would be a giant welfare program for the upper middle class.
Let’s eliminate money problems from the admissions equation for qualified students.
The struggle over who should teach in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of Brooklyn 50 years ago changed the trajectory of modern liberalism.
But several universities are now promising to do better.
Elevated lead and copper in school water fountains prompted officials to shut them down. Officials say they have a solution, but some Detroiters worry about “a baby Flint.”
New York City must build a school bus system that works for the students it is intended to serve.
New York City must build a school bus system that works for the students it is intended to serve.
A wave of teacher walkouts helped candidates ride to victory. But when it came to raising state taxes, voters in red and purple states rebelled.
A reader celebrates the role of the arts in human history.
An image of about 60 male high school students in Baraboo, Wis., many of them smiling gleefully with one arm in the air, went viral and drew condemnation.