The House Republican Going After Universities on Antisemitism
Representative Virginia Foxx is a blunt partisan. But her life in rural North Carolina informs her attacks against these schools, starting with whether Harvard is truly “elite.”
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Representative Virginia Foxx is a blunt partisan. But her life in rural North Carolina informs her attacks against these schools, starting with whether Harvard is truly “elite.”
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Welcome to the new “Office of Access and Engagement.” Schools are renaming departments and job titles to try to preserve diversity programs.
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The university cited security concerns at the graduation. But the student, who is Muslim, said the school was “succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to silence my voice.”
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Pro-Palestinian supporters disrupted a dinner for law students. There was a tussle over the microphone and conflicting claims of harm.
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Harvard and Caltech Will Require Test Scores for Admission
The universities are the latest highly selective schools to end their policies that made submitting SAT or ACT scores optional.
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Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
The pandemic changed families’ lives and the culture of education: “Our relationship with school became optional.”
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Jonathan Levin, Dean of Business School, Is Stanford’s New President
Dr. Levin faces the challenge of guiding the university through politically fraught times.
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‘It’s our Super Bowl’: This science teacher is going all out for the eclipse.
Rick Crosslin, a science teacher in Indianapolis, paired up with school maintenance employees to build a giant model of the eclipse.
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U.C. Berkeley Parents Hired Private Security to Patrol Near Campus
The parents were worried about crime, but the university said that the move raised concerns about training and experience, and that security was better left to its own police force.
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Birmingham-Southern College to Close After Failing to Secure State Loan
After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May.
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The Man Who Helped Redefine Campus Antisemitism
In government and as an outsider, Kenneth Marcus has tried to douse what he says is rising bias against Jews. Some see a crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech.
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Birmingham-Southern College to Close After Failing to Secure State Loan
After decades of financial mismanagement, the nearly 170-year-old private liberal arts school is set to close at the end of May.
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Here’s What It’s Like to Take the New SAT
Students will take a new SAT on Saturday. It’s all digital, and the reading and writing sections do away with page-long reading excerpts with eight to 11 questions.
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No More No. 2 Pencils: The SAT Goes Fully Digital
The new format cuts nearly an hour out of the exam and has shorter reading passages.
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Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
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At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Faced with declining enrollment, smaller schools are harnessing innovative ideas — like course sharing — to attract otherwise reluctant students.
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Community Schools Offer More Than Just Teaching
The concept has been around for a while, but the pandemic reinforced the importance of providing support to families and students to enhance learning.
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Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss?
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
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Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
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.
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How Israel became the focus of so much of contemporary protest politics.
By Ross Douthat
Some colleges that initiated police crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests have since taken a different tack. Others have defended the move. Hundreds have been arrested.
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, Alan Blinder and Neelam Bohra
Many museums around the country have had children’s programs for years — but they are on the rise now more than ever.
By Shivani Vora
The senators voted for a resolution that accused the administration of breaching the due-process rights of students and professors.
By Stephanie Saul and Anna Betts
Experts say high school seniors are more likely to go to college if they complete the financial aid form, but the state sees privacy issues with mandating it.
By Ann Carrns
Lessons from a tumultuous summer.
By Charles M. Blow and Jillian Weinberger
Worried about the repercussions of a censure vote, the group may offer a watered-down proposal.
By Stephanie Saul
A high school athletic director in the Baltimore area was arrested after he used A.I., the police said, to make a racist and antisemitic audio clip.
By Natasha Singer
The 144-year-old Los Angeles institution has not had a reputation for campus activism, but it now finds itself embroiled in controversies over the war in Gaza.
By Shawn Hubler
There have been student protests and arrests, as well as controversy over the school’s decision to cancel the speech of its valedictorian.
By Stephanie Saul
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