What the history of student vaccination mandates means for school COVID vaccine rules
School vaccine mandates go back 200 years. They've defeated many legal challenges. Will they work for COVID?
Education
Thousands of borrowers' student debt is erased with loan forgiveness program overhaul
A month after the U.S. Department of Education announced it would overhaul the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, thousands have begun to see their student loan balances disappear.
Colleges are turning to science to limit suicide contagion and help heal campuses
The new strategy is called "postvention." It means having a plan built on truth, compassion and counseling that quickly addresses the mental health needs of friends and classmates after a suicide.
Howard University students reach an agreement with officials after a month of protest
Students at the prominent historically Black university in Washington, D.C., had been protesting poor housing conditions since Oct. 12. The details of the agreement were not immediately available.
Students are still struggling to get internet. The infrastructure law could help
President Biden's infrastructure package includes $65 billion for improving broadband. That money could make a big difference for rural college students, who are especially disconnected.
Harvard's 148-year-old student newspaper gets its first Latina president
Raquel Coronell Uribe, a history and literature major from Miami, calls the role a "huge" honor: "Even if it took 148 years, I'm thrilled that I get to be in the position to be that first person."
When a Hyundai is also the family home
To keep their three kids in a sought-after public school district, one family sleeps in a car in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania Walmart while the parents work the overnight shift at the store.
More Republican leaders try to ban books on race, LGBTQ issues
In the latest instance, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster calls on the state's department of education to look into banning a book about queer identity, saying the content is sexually explicit.
Teachers are asking for extra holidays and mental health resources to fight burnout
Scott Simon speaks with Sobia Sheikh, a math teacher in northwest Washington state, about teacher burnout.
When can kids take off their masks in school? Here's what some experts say
With vaccines now available for children as young as 5, some school districts are easing up on their mask policies.