Most Ivy League Schools Now Have Female Presidents Three women started new terms as presidents at Ivy League universities in July. Their appointments mean that six of the eight highly selective schools are led by a female president. Sian Beilock is n...
Activists Challenge Harvards Legacy Admissions A civil rights group is taking legal action against legacy admissions at Harvard University. It says the practice discriminates against students of color by giving special consideration to mostly white c...
How ChatGPT Can Help Students Learn, Prevent Cheating Some educators worry students may use ChatGPT to cheat on schoolwork. The AI tool could write reports and computer codes. It could create charts that look like those done by humans. A growing numb...
US Supreme Court Rejects Race Consideration in College Admissions The United States Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the consideration of race in college admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The decision ended a...
Why Students Are Missing School, How to Fix It Education officials and activists are concerned about an increase in the number of American students who are absent for many days during the school year. Education policy experts call the problem chronic...
Math, Reading Test Scores in US Continue to Drop after Pandemic 大流行后美国数学、阅读考试成绩继续下降 The U.S. Department of Education expressed concern about long-term learning loss among teenagers who missed class time during th...
How the Ukraine War Is Affecting Childrens Education Russian forces have destroyed or damaged thousands of schools since invading Ukraine. But the harms to the country's education system go far beyond damaged buildings. Experts say schooling is suffe...
Engineering Schools Offer Money, View into Energy Crisis At a recent International Energy Agency conference in Paris, government and business leaders said the world is making progress on clean energy projects. However, the world's energy demands keep...
LGBTQ, Students of Color Feel Less Welcome under New US State Laws Lawmakers in several U.S. states have passed limits on discussions of race, gender and sexuality in classrooms. Some students say the measures targeting parts of their identity have m...
Colleges, Universities Trying to Increase Number of Male Students Donje Gates is 18 years old and lives in Chicago, Illinois. His family wants him to go to college in the fall. But Gates is thinking about going to a trade school instead. He says he w...
Can Tech Protect US Schools from Mass Shootings? The many school shootings across the United States have led to demand from schools for advanced technology security systems. A little over one year ago, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in...
US Colleges Plan for Courts Decision on Affirmative Action American colleges and universities are expecting an important decision from the U.S. Supreme Court involving a policy called affirmative action. The decision will come by the end of June. Aff...
US Lawmakers Seek to Fill Labor Shortage with Children A report from a policy group in Washington, D.C., says lawmakers in at least 10 states have proposed easing child labor laws over the last two years. The bills would make it easier for children u...
Message to 2023 Graduates: Want Things to Change? Take Over Musicians, actors, politicians, business leaders, writers, and Nobel Prize winners were among the commencement speakers in 2023. At Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduates heard fro...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted learning across the world. As students are back in class, some are much more behind than others. In the United States, teachers are working hard to help students make up for missed learning. Many schools are judging in...
