Alongside a series of drastic cuts to programs that support teaching Black history, the NEH has announced funding for a new round of grants linked to more conservative thinking. Teachers of Black ...

When Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired by the “Mississippi miracle,” other Southern states followed suit. But the ...

As an English teacher in 2016, I spent a summer in the archives of the Brooklyn Historical Society learning about abolition and women’s suffrage efforts. I held original bills of sale of young Black ...

Colleges and universities, responding to demand for faster routes to jobs, are adding a new kind of degree: a reduced-credit bachelor’s degree that can be earned in three years instead of the usual ...

A few months before her daughter started kindergarten, Claire Benoist saw a Facebook post that stunned her. Another family with an incoming kindergartner was wondering if it was true that children in ...

Students walk through an entrance to Yale University’s Old Campus in New Haven. Yale is among the institutions facing increased taxes on their endowments imposed by Republicans in Congress. Credit: ...

After DOGE gutted IES, the education and statistics agency inside the Education Department, some in the Trump administration are trying to rebuild it. A new report of ideas on how to do that was ...

As public funding fails to keep up with inflation, costs are getting passed on to families that in many cases can’t afford to pay more.

Maronda Mims was three semesters from completing her degree at Rutgers University when a family crisis intervened. She is ready to reenroll, but it is no easy feat. Credit: Yuvraj Khanna for the ...

Shuttering a women’s studies program, overhauling a gender studies program and cancelling courses focused on race and gender is an attack on all feminist movements and women everywhere.