Education

Good news for college seniors: The job market is booming

5:15am May 05, 2022

by Richard Kremer

College graduates are entering a hot labor market with national data showing employers are significantly boosting recruitment. Many seniors are accepting job offers months before they graduate.

J.R. Chester, an advocate with the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says she hopes the state's updated sex education curriculum will lead to more open conversation between parents and kids.

Texas got a sex ed update, but students and educators say there's still a lot missing

7:08am April 30, 2022

by Elena Rivera

The last time Texas updated its sex education curriculum, was in the '90s. Students will now learn about contraception and STIs — but not gender or consent. And the classes are all optional.

The University of Southern California has settled lawsuits with 80 former students, mostly gay and bisexual men, who accuse a male former school doctor of sexual misconduct. The agreement for an undisclosed sum follows settlements by the Los Angeles schoo

USC settles lawsuits with 80 men who say a former school doctor sexually abused them

6:18am April 30, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

Attorneys for the alleged victims say the cases date back to as early as 1997, with the latest occurring in 2018. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Afghans unite in demanding that the Taliban let girls attend secondary school

4:42pm April 29, 2022

by Diaa Hadid

Afghans are protesting the Taliban's ban on girls attending secondary school, including a surprising cohort: pro-Taliban clerics.

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Shabana Basij-Rasikh speaks at SESSION 1 at TEDWomen 2021: What Now? December 1-3, 2021, Palm Springs, California. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: The ongoing fight to educate Afghan girls

9:23am April 29, 2022

In 2016, Shabana Basij-Rasikh created Afghanistan's School of Leadership for girls. When the Taliban took control in 2021, she helped her students flee and continued their education abroad.

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News brief: missile strike, Biden wants more Ukraine funding, education poll

7:46am April 29, 2022

A missile hit Kyiv after the U.N. chief finished a news conference. President Biden urges lawmakers to send more money to Ukraine. NPR poll: most parents are happy with what schools are teaching.

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The education culture war is raging. But for most parents, it's background noise

5:13am April 29, 2022

by Anya Kamenetz

By wide margins, parents across the political spectrum are satisfied with how their children's schools teach about race, gender and history. That's according to a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos.

A teacher walks through an empty classroom at Hazelwood Elementary School in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 11.

How social-emotional learning became a target for Ron DeSantis and conservatives

7:17pm April 28, 2022

by Terry Gross

Florida officials recently rejected a slew of math textbooks, claiming they included "prohibited topics." Journalist Dana Goldstein theorizes the objections related to social-emotional learning.

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Students make their way through the Sather Gate near Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus on March 29 in Berkeley, Calif.

University of California will waive tuition and fees for many Native American students

11:44am April 28, 2022

by Rina Torchinsky

The program applies to undergraduate and graduate students who are members of federally recognized Native American, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and will begin in the fall.

Encore: A library system announces a program to challenge the tide of book bans

4:35pm April 27, 2022

by Andrew Limbong

As more and more school districts ban books from their classrooms and libraries, the Brooklyn Public Library is sharing its resources with teens around the country to fight encroaching censorship.