A Catholic school, newly approved in Oklahoma, is testing the bounds of what it means to be a charter — uncomfortably so for some leaders.
Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support. They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments.
The new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software.
The gunfire, which left five other people injured, sparked chaos after Huguenot High School’s ceremony. A 19-year-old man was in custody.
The Ivy League school said it would no longer share data with the college guide, the first major university to do so. Its relationship with U.S. News has been up and down.
Readers respond to a column by David Brooks. Also: Aid Ukraine, regardless; a court ruling on drag shows; corporate welfare.
Oklahoma’s decision to allow the Catholic church to operate a public school continues a winning streak for religious conservatives.
Why American schools are changing how reading is taught.
For the school commute, families are taking to the streets with two wheels. Some have termed the movement “kidical mass.”
En su nuevo libro, el senador estadounidense por Misuri alienta encontrar consuelo en el pasado para sanar y rescatar la hombría.
The school will offer online, Roman Catholic instruction funded by taxpayers. Its approval is certain to tee off a legal battle over the separation of church and state.
Students and staff members at two schools in northern Afghanistan fell ill with respiratory and neurological symptoms.
Pandemic aid was supposed to help students recover from learning loss, but results have been mixed.
El plan de estudios para los jóvenes rusos enfatiza cada vez más el patriotismo y el heroísmo del ejército de Moscú, mientras demoniza a Occidente como “mafiosos”.
The idea that a job is a passion obfuscates the reality that a job is an economic contract, and sets up the conditions for exploitation.
In one school district, the Bible and the Book of Mormon were flagged for “sensitive materials review.”
Advice for college graduates. Also: Right-to-shelter laws; the work commute; teaching reading; Ron DeSantis and Clarence Thomas.
A series from Headway looks back at historical gains for their lessons today.
The curriculum for young Russians is increasingly emphasizing patriotism and the heroism of Moscow’s army, while demonizing the West as “gangsters.” One school features a “sniper”-themed math class.
The Fresh Air Fund offers a summer escape from New York City.
New York City’s specialized high schools represent perhaps the highest-profile symbol of segregation in the nation’s largest school system.
Mack, whom one student called an agent of change, wants to “create a place where people feel like themselves” — and a model for the professional world.
The closures in Detroit, Pittsburgh and Grand Rapids, Mich., renewed concerns about aging infrastructure amid climate change.
When learning a language, people typically focus on nouns and adjectives first. But verbs are the real key.
The state of manhood has become one more front in our culture wars, a debate that keeps breaking down along political lines, even as men themselves just keep breaking down.
The state shows that poverty is no excuse for failing to teach kids to read.
Most schools rev up for the big game. At the High School of Fashion Industries, it’s the spring fashion show. And this year’s was bigger and sassier than ever.
Investigators have accused the 15-year-old student of starting the blaze in anger after her mobile phone was confiscated.
The justices will soon rule on race-conscious admissions plans at Harvard and U.N.C. A new appeals court case asks whether schools can use race-neutral tools to achieve racial diversity.
A high school senior sued a Colorado school district after she was told she could not wear the sash celebrating her heritage at her commencement ceremony.
The Dallas school district apologized for not providing guidance to parents when it sent students home with a book that teaches how to respond to dangerous situations at school.
Students and teachers said in interviews that some classrooms were in disarray as more and younger students were smoking marijuana at school.
El gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, anunció el miércoles su candidatura presidencial en una transmisión por Twitter, la cual contuvo una que otra declaración engañosa.
Readers responds to a column by Michelle Goldberg. Also: Amanda Gorman’s poem, restricted; George Santos; the rubble of Bakhmut, Ukraine.
New York is the latest large city to join a national push to change how children are taught to read. But principals and teachers may resist uprooting old practices.
We examined the Republican candidate’s defense of his record as Florida governor, his dispute with Disney and his attack on President Biden.
A brilliant girl, a determined country and a model for how to make education more equal.
A grade school in Miami-Dade County said “The Hill We Climb,” which Ms. Gorman read at President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, was “better suited” for older students after a parent complained about it.
A Republican effort to bring religion into classrooms faltered, though lawmakers were poised to allow chaplains to act as school counselors.
Parents had objected to Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia changing its admissions policies, including getting rid of an exam. The case appears headed for the Supreme Court.
Readers discuss how schools can help students who’ve fallen behind since the pandemic. Also: Jail reform; mercy for death row inmates; Dianne Feinstein.
New York City will provide $6 million in funding to rehabilitate the newly landmarked building, which for 34 years was home to a school for Black children during segregation.
Many of the 19 victims were schoolchildren. The fire service said it was still unclear who had set the building ablaze.
What Michelle Goldberg saw in Florida.
“Follow your passions”? Not so fast.
Gov. Ron DeSantis ushered in a six-week abortion ban and curriculum restrictions, while expanding capital punishment and concealed carry access as he prepared to run for president.
Nuestro mundo a menudo conspira para menospreciar la realización en favor del logro. Es un error.
Rates for undergraduate loans could top 5 percent next school year, adding pressure on families already struggling to pay for college.
Strengthened by billions of federal dollars, semiconductor companies plan to create thousands of jobs. But officials say there might not be enough people to fill them.
A constitutional challenge to Florida’s book-restricting frenzy.
The Florida governor is making a grab for national attention ahead of his expected presidential campaign rollout.
A free-speech organization and the country’s largest book publisher said the district violated the First Amendment and the equal protection clause.
A sophomore in Springfield, Mo., was suspended for three days after recording her teacher, who no longer works for the district, repeating the slur in geometry class.
The sense of happiness that comes from absorption in a thing we are truly drawn to can be discovered but not taught.
New York City students are struggling with reading, but principals are worried that the rollout of a new teaching method is happening too quickly.
Legislative initiatives to overhaul immigration policy have fallen flat as partisan differences and other rifts have scuttled attempts at compromise.
Readers discuss a column by Ross Douthat about colleges no longer requiring SAT scores.
Readers respond to the suicide of Jack Reid, a Lawrenceville student. Also: Netflix DVDs; the spiraling debt; Republican candidates.
After protests and a boycott, the publication has altered its methodology. But the changes are unlikely to placate critics.
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.
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.