One of the central messages of Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s final State of the State address was that kids in Michigan are struggling mightily to read at grade level.
The governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will meet in a closed session a day after the FBI served search warrants at the district’s headquarters and the home of its superintendent.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will resign from teaching at Harvard University as the campus reviews his ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, has started checking literacy skills during pediatric visits for kids as young as 3.
The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024.
A coalition of Wisconsin school districts, teachers’ unions, advocacy groups, parents, students and others has filed a lawsuit against the state Legislature alleging that it’s failing to fund public schools adequately.
Colin Gray is on trial after prosecutors say he helped enable his son’s deadly school shooting in Georgia by giving him a gun.
Millions of adults are continuing their education by returning to school and enrolling in credit and non-credit courses, certificates, micro-credentials, job training and degree programs.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect.
The Trump administration says that 31 universities have agreed to cut ties with a nonprofit that helps racial minorities earn doctorate degrees.
South Carolina lawmakers have approved a bill to keep secret how much money teams and athletes are paid under new college sports rules.
Michigan lawmakers required schools to adopt a cardiac emergency response plan for the current school year if the Legislature appropriated “sufficient funds," but funding wasn't dedicated in the education budget.
Students in Georgia describe the terror of a school shooting as prosecutors try to convict the suspect’s father for giving him the gun.
More than a decade before he became the country’s first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the early days of the American Revolution.
A judge has declared a mistrial in the trial of five current and former Stanford University students charged after pro-Palestinian protests in 2024.
The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, saying it has refused to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions.
In a new court filing, teachers around the country describe how President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is emptying classrooms and frightening families.
Modern executives lead effectively by understanding how technology influences performance and accountability.
A new trove of documents released by the Justice Department reveals that Epstein’s reach into academia was wider than previously known.
Prosecutors in Utah have filed a first-degree felony rape charge against Brigham Young University standout wide receiver Parker Kingston.
A 17-year-old has killed one person and injured two others after he stole a gun from police and stormed a public high school in southern Thailand.
The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.
For many immigrant families in Minnesota, sending a child to school each day requires faith that one of the thousands of federal immigration officers deployed around the state won’t detain them.
In a rapidly technologically advancing world, problem solving is no longer about optimizing a single variable. It is about navigating trade-offs, understanding consequences, paying more than lip service to sustainability and making decisions that hold up under real-world pressure and constraints.
San Antonio offers a free preschool program for infants and toddlers, helping set them up for success in elementary school.
Authorities say the parents of a 16-year-old boy who wounded two students at a Colorado high school with an old revolver won't be charged.
President Donald Trump is demanding a $1 billion payment from Harvard University to end his prolonged standoff with the Ivy League campus, doubling the amount he sought previously as both sides appear to move further from reaching a deal.
A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States.
Despite proclaiming last February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by what critics say are attacks on Black history in the United States.
The Trump administration has concluded that San Jose State University discriminated against women by letting a transgender athlete play on the women’s volleyball team.
Claiming to give every child “a shot at financial freedom,” President Donald Trump is unveiling the new Trump Accounts initiative, which gives $1,000 to every newborn if their parents open an account.
Yale University is eliminating tuition for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year.
The Trump administration has thrown up new obstacles for international students, from travel bans to a pause in visa appointments and new layers of vetting.
Federal education officials say a New York school district is “erasing its Native American heritage” and violating civil rights law by changing its team name from the “Thunderbirds” to the “T-Birds.”.
A federal judge ruled that the academics, who are party to a lawsuit alleging U.S. policy singles out noncitizens for detention or deportation over their pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses, can seek relief from the court if their immigration status is changed as retribution for taking part in the case.
President Donald Trump's budget office is telling government agencies to compile data on federal money sent to a group of 14 mostly Democratic-controlled states and the District of Columbia.
An auction house in New York is marking the United States' 250th birthday by selling items that trace the nation’s history through some of its most iconic documents.
The former Des Moines superintendent has plead guilty in federal court to falsely claiming U.S. citizenship and illegally possessing firearms.
As the mobility industry accelerates toward electrification, automation and advanced manufacturing, one question looms large: who will service and maintain the innovative technologies powering the future?
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colleges.
A former Uvalde schools police officer who was among the first to respond to the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school has been acquitted of criminal charges that he failed his duty to confront the gunman.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he owes Indiana Gov. Mike Braun some key lime pie and stone crabs after losing a bet.
The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans.
The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities.
A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court decision that released former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist.
A bill aimed at keeping cellphones out of classrooms passed the Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday, marking a comeback for legislation that failed earlier this year.
Opening statements began Friday in the trial of five current and former Stanford students who overtook a university building during 2024 pro-Palestine protests.
The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month.
Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start.
The Trump administration and Louisiana officials have lifted another decades-old school desegregation order, part of a campaign to end court orders they describe as outdated.
As a shooting unfolded at Brown University on Dec. 13, students turned to the anonymous app Sidechat to document fear, confusion and grief in real time — often before receiving official alerts.
The Trump administration’s crackdown on the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes care for 1.4 million children from low-income households, has rattled child care providers and families that rely on the aid money.
Messy winter weather brought snow, ice, freezing rain and dangerous driving to the New England states as the region prepared for more unpleasant conditions later in the week.
The Trump administration is giving Iowa more power to decide how it spends its federal education money.
The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor planned the attack for years.
The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people.”.
With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech companies plan on offering in 2026.
College football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at New College in Sarasota.
Greek authorities have removed more than 300,000 inactive university students from public university records.
Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.
Brown University has placed its campus police chief on leave as it reviews security policies following a tragic shooting.
Investigators are still trying to figure out much of what Claudio Neves Valente was doing in New England in the weeks before they say he opened fire in a Brown University lecture hall and later killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.
The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the U.S. through the diversity immigrant visa program.
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University.
Officials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.
An autopsy has found that the man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when found.
A Northern California school district near the state's border with Nevada is caught up in a dispute over the states' differing policies on the participation of transgender athletes.
Security footage released by the FBI shows a route taken by a person police are seeking in connection with the Brown University shooting.
Brown University says it's issuing early-decision admission offers Wednesday evening, even as the search continues for a suspect in the weekend mass shooting on campus.
A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico.
When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.
Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing the area the week before the attack.
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.
Authorities have released three new videos of a man they believe is responsible for the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine.
Authorities have released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting.
An aspiring neurosurgeon at Brown University and a leader of a campus Republicans group were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight.
With the Brown University shooter still on the loose, police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators push for new evidence that might help them crack the case.
A group of students and professors in Alabama is appealing a state law that bans diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools.