Education

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Education

Clinton's Free-Tuition Promise: What Would It Cost? How Would It Work?

9:33pm July 28, 2016

by Anya Kamenetz

This proposal is novel and dramatic: a broadly scaled entitlement program for the middle class directed not at older people, like Social Security and Medicare, but at younger Americans.

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Transgender Student Files Suit Against School District, Alleging Discrimination

3:59pm July 28, 2016

Ash Whitaker has filed a federal Title IX lawsuit against his school district. The transgender teen says the Kenosha School District has essentially created a surveillance program to monitor his bathroom usage, with plans to issue green wristbands to help identify transgender students.

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James Ramsey has resigned as the University of Louisville's president, ending weeks of uncertainty over his status.

University Of Louisville President Resigns, With $690,000 Payout

1:16pm July 28, 2016

by Bill Chappell

James Ramsey will receive a settlement to avoid potential litigation against the school, which is facing both federal and NCAA investigations.

Is The Student Loan Crisis Fact Or Fiction?

10:44am July 28, 2016

by Claudio Sanchez

A new book says the student loan crisis is overblown. Author Sandy Baum says we really need to focus on the small portion of borrowers who are really struggling.

MAKESHOP at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh.

Ready, Set, Play: A Top 10 'Playlist' From The Nation's Children's Museums

9:48pm July 27, 2016

Lasers and lava and mummies, oh my! Here are the exhibits that kids and their grown-ups love the most from 10 of the nation's best children's museums.

Good News On Student Loans ... For Some

8:10am July 26, 2016

by Anya Kamenetz

More students are getting affordable payments, a new report says. But they might not be the ones who really need it.

Why Summer Jobs Don't Pay Off Anymore

12:26pm July 25, 2016

by Anya Kamenetz

The minimum wage is flat, college tuition is up and students are broke: Summer jobs just don't have the purchasing power they used to, especially when you look at the cost of college.

Amy Moylan's first-graders learn about place values. At the Baldwin School in Cambridge, Mass. — and at most schools around the country — the math curriculum is very similar to the approach used in Italy in the 1500s to teach the children of merchants

A History Lesson: When Math Was Taboo

7:00am July 23, 2016

by Gabrielle Emanuel

When Houman Harouni's students asked why they have to study math, he looked to ancient history for answers.

Maternal mortality rates are going down because of better health services. Above: A mother nurses her newborn at a maternity ward in Sierra Leone.

The U.N.'s Rundown Of Some Of The World's Biggest Problems

6:06am July 23, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

A new report reveals where the world stands in the fight against extreme poverty, inequality and climate change.

A class for beginning flutists, crammed into an office building boardroom, labor over "Hot Cross Buns." It's part of Harmony Project, a nonprofit program offering music lessons in a wide range of instruments — flute, trombone, trumpet, oboe, violin, cel

From Mozart To Mr. Rogers: Literacy, Music And The Brain

1:57pm July 22, 2016

A test that can flag struggling readers before they're old enough to read and the power of music to help a child hear language. A literacy two-fer from the NPR Ed Team.