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Wesleyan University's president on the school's decision to end legacy admissions

5:01am July 21, 2023

by Leila Fadel

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Wesleyan University President Michael Roth about the school's decision to end admission preference for children of alumni.

A private liberal arts college in Connecticut is ending legacy admissions

4:25pm July 20, 2023

by Elissa Nadworny

Wesleyan University will end its practice of legacy admissions, which gives preference to children of alumni. This comes after the Supreme Court's decision to ban race-conscious college admissions.

Ashkan Bahgozen, Helen Kinchin, Monika Myslewska and Mabel Makombore are all studying at CU Coventry. Students at the university can start at any of six times during the year, take one subject at a time for the same four hours every weekday and get a bachelor's degree in three years.

This no-frills college helps students get a degree quickly, simply and affordably

5:00am July 20, 2023

by Jon Marcus

CU Coventry's assembly-line approach makes college cheaper, faster and less intimidating for students, without the kinds of add-ons that push up prices.

People walk on the Stanford University campus beneath Hoover Tower in Stanford, Calif., on March 14, 2019. The president of Stanford University Marc Tessier-Lavigne said Wednesday, July 19, 2023, he would resign, citing an independent review that cleared him of research misconduct but found flaws in other papers authored by his lab.

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Stanford president resigns after fallout from falsified data in his research

8:17pm July 19, 2023

by Ayana Archie

The board of trustees found that Marc Tessier-Lavigne did not directly have a hand in falsifying data, but that he did not properly oversee members of his lab who did.

In New Jersey, climate change education is rolled into all sorts of school subjects

4:42pm July 19, 2023

by Seyma Bayram

New Jersey was the first state in the country to mandate climate change be taught across all grade levels and in most subjects.

Students walk through touchless security scanners

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Guilford County Schools to add security scanners to all middle schools

1:55pm July 19, 2023

by Amy Diaz

Guilford County Schools is bringing security scanners to all middle schools in the district, after implementing this technology at all traditional high schools last year.

Belle Ortiz, the valiant educator who brought mariachi to public schools, has died

5:11am July 19, 2023

by Jack Morgan

Texas educator and musician Belle Ortiz has died. She played a vital role in bringing mariachi music out of the clubs and into public schools across Texas. (First aired on ATC on July 18, 2023.)

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Parents share what they learned from watching the animated kids show 'Bluey'

6:16pm July 15, 2023

New episodes of the hit Australian animated kids show Bluey dropped on Disney+ this week. NPR's Scott Detrow gets a group of parents together to talk about what they've learned from the show.

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More than 800,000 borrowers are still eligible to benefit from student loan forgiveness

8:06am July 15, 2023

The Biden administration has announced it will forgive debts held by 800,000 federal student loan recipients for low-income borrowers.

Northwestern head coach Jim Foster looks on from the third base box during an NCAA baseball game against USC Upstate on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023, in Spartanburg, S.C.

Northwestern baseball coach Jim Foster is fired days after football hazing scandal

4:25pm July 14, 2023

by Jonathan Franklin

In an announcement posted to Northwestern University's athletics page, head baseball coach Jim Foster was "relieved of his duties effective immediately."