Education

Williams House at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire will become an all-gender dorm.

Elite Prep Schools Experiment With 'All-Gender' Dorms

9:28pm May 03, 2017

by Gabrielle Emanuel

Two of the top U.S. preparatory boarding schools, Phillips Exeter and Phillips Academy Andover, are converting some dorm space to "all-gender" dorms to better meet the needs of transgender students.

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A right wing activist holds a sign during a rally at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park on April 27, 2017 in Berkeley, California. Protestors are gathering in Berkeley to protest the cancellation of a speech by American conservative political commen

Hate Speech And The Misnomer Of 'The Marketplace of Ideas'

4:03pm May 03, 2017

by David Shih

The belief that more speech is the remedy for "bad" speech can be a principled stance. But racist hate speech may not be doing what free speech defenders think it is.

Diverse classrooms are the key to building a better preschool, a new study reports.

Pre-K: Decades Worth Of Studies, One Strong Message

2:45pm May 03, 2017

by Claudio Sanchez

What happens when a group of the nation's leading pre-K experts get together to lay out a blueprint for what parents, and educators, can learn from decades of research?

Paulo Melo is a global entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. This visa workaround allowed Melo, originally from Portugal, to legally stay in the United States and build his business in Massachusetts.

Without A Special Visa, Foreign Startup Founders Turn To A Workaround

8:12am May 03, 2017

by Asma Khalid

Immigration advocates often tout how many startups are founded by foreigners. Yet the U.S. does not offer startup visas. Some entrepreneurs turn to a program started as an experiment in Massachusetts.

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Anna Marie McClanahan (center) helps children write stories by using Legos to create scenes.

Under Trump Budget, Nearly 2 Million Kids May Lose After-School Care

9:43am May 02, 2017

by Pam Fessler

The Trump administration says there's no evidence the program works, but supporters say that thinking is misguided. Some even call it a "godsend."

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Trump's Budget Proposal Threatens Funding For Major After-School Program

8:32am May 02, 2017

by Pam Fessler

President Trump's budget would eliminate all funding for 21st Century Community Learning Centers, after-school programs for 1.8 million mostly poor children.

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Harvard Business School Moves To Study More Diverse Cases

6:23am May 02, 2017

by Zeninjor Enwemeka

Harvard produces case studies used by business students across the country. Until now, more of those cases involved white business leaders. The school is changing that.

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4 Things We Don't Know About AP Tests

4:53pm May 01, 2017

by Anya Kamenetz

Nearly 3 million students take their Advanced Placement exams in the coming weeks. There's very little independent research on the benefits of these courses.

President Trump ordered Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to look into whether the federal government has usurped state and local control of education.

Trump On Education Department: 'Reverse This Federal Power Grab'

6:05am April 29, 2017

Our weekly education news roundup: State officials criticize DeVos on student loan protections; and typos torpedo some grant applications for low-income students.

Georgetown University To Offer Slave Descendants Preferential Admissions

4:31pm April 28, 2017

by Noel King

When Georgetown University announced they were going to try to make reparations to descendants of slaves held by the university more than a century ago, it raised tough questions for the families who stand to receive the reparations. Georgetown is offering preferential admissions to descendants, but one family with two students applying, have another idea.