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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Redundant Executive Order on Campus Speech
The president’s much-anticipated directive doesn’t do much.
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Mary Altaffer / AP New York City High Schools’ Endless Segregation Problem
Seven black students were accepted to Stuyvesant High School this year. Five years ago, the number was exactly the same.
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Paul Bradbury / Getty One Way to Stop College-Admissions Insanity: Admit More Students
If selective colleges were less selective, there would be less incentive to cheat to get in.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Trump Administration Really Wants to Cut Education Funding. Congress Doesn’t.
For the third year in a row, lawmakers are expected to disregard the administration’s proposed budget.
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G. Merrill / Getty Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone?
Economists are trying to understand the steady decline of non-college-educated men in the labor market.
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Joshua Lott / Getty Congress Might Finally Overhaul Higher Education
As the House and Senate prepare for hearings to update the law governing colleges, a new report lays out some guiding principles.
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Alicia Tatone The College-Affordability Crisis Is Uniting the 2020 Democratic Candidates
Well, sort of
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Joe Skipper / Reuters The Next Parkland Could Happen Anywhere
Schools are trying to bolster security, but they can only do so much to prevent another mass shooting.
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jayk7 / Getty Yearbooks Aren’t the Only Place to Find Blackface on Campus
There has been a rush to examine yearbooks for examples of racist histories that are modern realities.
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UNC Library Archive Will Anyone Save Black Colleges?
Bennett College in North Carolina needed to raise $5 million to try to save its accreditation. Meanwhile, transformational donations are going to other schools.
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Tim Sloan / AFP / Getty What Johns Hopkins Gets by Buying the Newseum
The university, which already has a significant presence in Washington, D.C., hopes to expand its influence in public-policy debates—and entice prospective students with another reason to enroll.
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Jess Milton / Getty Who Wants to Be a College President?
Probably not many qualified candidates.
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Susan Walsh / AP A Second President Falls at Michigan State
The board of trustees accepted John Engler’s resignation on Thursday, and the healing process begins again for a university in crisis.
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Seth Wenig / AP Community-College Students Succeed at Elite Schools—When They’re Admitted
A new report finds that these students graduate from selective colleges at higher rates than first-time freshmen.
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Brian T. Evans / Getty Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry
A new government report highlights just how pervasive the problem is.
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Jerome Gorin / Getty How to Turn Schools Into Happier Places
A strong student-teacher relationship can help put a dent in school suspensions, according to a new study.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Year the Gun Conversation Changed
States passed a flurry of gun-control measures in 2018, but the future of the push for greater regulation is tied to the much larger political drama playing out in America.
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Hal Bergman / Getty When School Choice Means School’s Choice
Parents of students who are “harder to educate” may have a hard time getting schools to reply to their emails about how to apply.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump’s School-Safety Commission’s Strange Focus on Discipline
The administration wants to keep schools safe by ditching rules meant to prevent racial bias in school discipline.
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J.D. Pooley / AP Free College in 2020
Can progressive Democrats win on free-college proposals in the upcoming election?
