Education

Debt relief for veterans who say they were cheated by for-profit colleges

4:09pm June 27, 2022

by Quil Lawrence

The government is settling a case that will grant billions in debt relief to students, many of them veterans, who say unscrupulous colleges cheated them into overpaying for useless degrees.

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Texas law student talks about her current and future fight for abortion rights

9:13am June 26, 2022

by Elissa Nadworny

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks to Nikita Mhatre, co-president of a student chapter of the advocacy group If/When/How, about students mobilizing for abortion rights.

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These college students talked to NPR about applying to schools. Now they've graduated

8:04am June 26, 2022

by Elissa Nadworny

NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with recent college graduates McKenna Hensley, Justice Benjamin and Johnny Dang about their hopes for the future and attending college during a pandemic.

Education

Freedom Schools begin culturally relevant summer programming in Winston-Salem

12:49pm June 24, 2022

by Amy Diaz

At the Kimberley Park Freedom School, there are no desks.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona speaks at the White House on April 27. The Biden administration proposed a dramatic rewrite of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, moving to expand protections for LGBTQ students, bolster the rights of victims and w

Biden's Title IX reforms would roll back Trump-era rules, expand victim protections

2:43pm June 23, 2022

by Dustin Jones

The administration proposed an overhaul of regulations to expand protections for LGBTQI+ students and require schools to respond to all sexual discrimination complaints.

Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis listens to his students, survivors of the shooting, in April 2019 as he attends "Columbine 20 Years Later: A Faith-based Remembrance Service" at Waterstone Community Church in Littleton, Colo. A dozen students and one t

A small, growing group of survivors advises school leaders after mass shootings

1:14am June 23, 2022

Frank DeAngelis was principal at Columbine High School in Colorado when 12 students and a teacher were killed there. He helps lead a group that offers aid and a sounding board after each fresh attack.

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Ohio State University has won its fight to trademark the word "The." The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office approved the university's request on Tuesday.

Ohio State gets approval to trademark 'The' for merchandise

5:03pm June 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

The school says it allows Ohio State to control use of "The" on branded products associated with and sold through athletics and collegiate channels, such as T-shirts, baseball caps and hats.

Covid testing in schools as a bridge to getting back in the classroom.

Education

6 things we've learned about how the pandemic disrupted learning

12:54pm June 22, 2022

by Cory Turner

As a third pandemic school year draws to a close, new research offers the clearest accounting yet of the pandemic's academic toll.

Education

A man started his college degree in prison. Can he finish on the outside?

8:21am June 22, 2022

by Elissa Nadworny

Daniel Duron got a rare opportunity to work on his bachelor's degree while in prison. Early release means he'll have to finish his final semester as a college student on the outside.

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Supreme Court rules Maine's tuition assistance program must cover religious schools

8:12pm June 21, 2022

by Nina Totenberg

The 6-3 opinion, which was along ideological lines, invalidates provisions in 37 state constitutions that ban the direct or indirect use of taxpayer money in religious schools.

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