Education

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been shrinking the Constitution's wall of separation between church and state, particularly in cases dealing with religious schools.

Supreme Court weighs mandating public funds for religious schools in Maine

9:03am December 08, 2021

by Nina Totenberg

At issue in the case is whether the state, which pays for some students to attend nonsectarian private schools, should also pay tuition for students to attend religious schools.

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President Biden walks to Marine One outside the White House on Dec. 2.

Biden pledged to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt. Here's what he's done so far

7:34pm December 07, 2021

by Cory Turner

President Biden provided hundreds of thousands of borrowers with debt relief this year — but his campaign promise to cancel at least $10,000 of student debt per person remains unfulfilled.

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U.S. students turn to Europe to earn affordable degrees

6:53am December 06, 2021

It is college application season and some American students are looking abroad for affordable degrees.

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Stewart Indian School students are seen in a classroom in Carson, Nev., in an undated photo. The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools.

Nevada's governor apologizes for the state's past role in Indigenous schools

9:26am December 04, 2021

by The Associated Press

Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized on behalf of his state and promised to cooperate with an investigation of the federal government's past policies and oversight of Native American boarding schools.

A nurse administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University, Long Beach campus.

Colleges with high vaccination rates must now decide if they'll require boosters

5:31pm December 03, 2021

by Elissa Nadworny

Wesleyan University is among a small group of colleges requiring COVID-19 boosters for spring semester. Will other institutions follow?

$1.7B bond referendum for Guilford County Schools will be on spring ballot

3:19pm December 03, 2021

by Keri Brown

Education

Loretta J. Ross: What if we called people in, rather than calling them out?

11:58am December 03, 2021

How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in—instead of calling them out.

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New Delhi is closing schools as it tries to deal with air pollution

4:47pm December 02, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

Kids in Delhi, India, have been indoors for 20 months –- first for COVID, now for smog beyond four times what's safe. Officials have installed towers to filter it, but scientists say they don't work.

Corporate donations to agriculture schools can put educators in an awkward spot

4:24pm December 02, 2021

by Dana Cronin

Big agriculture schools have to rely more on corporate gifts to fund research as other sources have dwindled. While most gifts don't come with direct strings attached, they can still lead to conflict.

People embrace as they visit a makeshift memorial outside of Oxford High School on Wednesday in Oxford, Mich.

What we know about the young victims of the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan

11:20am December 02, 2021

Oxford High School lost four young students in a shooting this week. The victims, many of them athletes on school teams, were between 14 and 17 years old.