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Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Georgetown Prep’s President Defends Its Culture, Without Mentioning Brett Kavanaugh
The Supreme Court nominee was recently accused of committing sexual assault while he was a student at the high school in the 1980s.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters George Washington’s Broken Dream of a National University
The founders believed a federal institution focused on civic education could help unite a fractured country.
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Alicia Tatone America Wakes Up From Its Dream of Free College
A flurry of state and local programs to cover students’ tuition and attention by top politicians made a national program seem possible. Then Trump won.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual-Assault Policy
How a hypothetical accusation could actually play out in practice, if the Education Department’s proposed rules become law
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Sam Edwards / Getty The Lifelong Cost of Getting a For-Profit Education
A new report shows how these institutions hound people to enroll, and then leave them with little besides a pile of loans they often can’t pay back.
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Brian Blanco / Reuters A Loophole That Could Let States Buy Teachers Guns With Federal Funds
Congress has repeatedly made clear its position against doing so, but new reports say Trump’s Education Department is considering allowing states to use grants to purchase firearms for school districts.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Black Colleges Have to Pay More for Loans Than Other Schools
And there’s no factor that can explain it other than racism.
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Joe Raedle / Getty NYU’s Free Medical-School Tuition Could Funnel More Doctors to Primary Care
The United States is on pace to have a shortage of up to 120,000 physicians by 2030—reducing med students’ debt might help fix that.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The Fate of Black Colleges Post-Omarosa
The former White House official was as seen as a direct line to President Trump for the institutions, but they are faring better with Congress anyway.
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Julie Jacobson / AP When Academics Defend Colleagues Accused of Harassment
The recent case of Avital Ronell, an NYU professor suspended for sexual harassment, and the scholars who rallied to support her highlights the intense politics of academia.
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The Long Shadow of Racism at the University of Virginia: From 1817 to the Charlottesville Riots
A year after white-supremacist violence broke out in the university town, UVA grapples with a centuries-old legacy of slavery and racial discrimination.
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Kathy Willens / AP Student Journalism in the Age of Media Distrust
President Trump’s attacks on the press seem to be fueling young people’s interest in the profession—a phenomenon also seen at other turbulent times in U.S. history.
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Scott Bauer / AP The Wisconsin Governor’s Race Might Be Decided by Education
Voters are “sick and tired of people playing political games with kids in schools.”
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Emails From Trump Education Official Reveal Ties to For-Profit Colleges
A former for-profit lobbyist turned department staffer scheduled meetings to discuss two regulations overseeing these institutions—rules that are now being rolled back.
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Matt York / AP Here’s How Colleges Are Spending Money From the Koch Foundation
As part of a transparency effort following ethical controversies, the organization shared its newest grant agreement with The Atlantic.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Conservative High Schoolers Want to ‘Own the Libs’
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and others preached civility at a conference for young Republicans. But the teen attendees connected more with Trump-rally-style raucousness.
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Sarah Blesener Can Richard Carranza Integrate the Most Segregated School System in the Country?
A new chancellor is talking a big game about making New York City’s schools more equal—but that’s the easy part.
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Kirn Vintage Stock / Getty White College Graduates Are Doing Great With Their Parents' Money
Higher education alone can't bridge the wealth gap that separates black Americans from their white peers.
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Seth Wenig / AP Yet Another Way Student Debt Keeps People from Buying Homes
The financial constraints of major student loans make it harder for hundreds of thousands of Americans to buy their first homes. But so does a small technicality—one that the Federal Housing Administration could fix.
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Mark Humphrey/AP The Era of Affirmative Action May Not Last Much Longer
Two pieces of recent news signal a future in which America’s colleges and universities are even whiter than they are today.
