The Court will hear one of the most notable “Church and state” cases in years.
From Lauryn Hill to Cameron Post to Tara Westover, 2018 repeatedly asked the question, What does it mean to teach a person to surrender?
Students across the U.S. share their school’s version of that place—the one where everyone just winds up late at night, for better or worse.
Young people are among the loneliest of all Americans. Schools that teach kids how to deal with feelings of isolation could help put a dent in the epidemic.
The decline of Catholic schools is making independent education less accessible to middle- and lower-class students.
Higher education alone can't bridge the wealth gap that separates black Americans from their white peers.
The retailer’s new back-to-school discount says a lot about the state of education funding in the United States.
The civil-rights activist’s vision for education was far grander than integration alone. How disappointed he would be.
Partaking in an intensive arts education as a teenager can have the unintended effect of pushing some toward a more traditional university path.
The organization’s decision overturns a historic and defining separation, raising questions about their timing and how they differ from the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a greater margin than almost anywhere else in the world: a case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to set students up for success after graduation. But at public schools, even the best ideas often have unintended consequences.
In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how?
An immigration-law expert chimes in on how the recent detention of Daniel Ramirez Medina could affect students around the country who still benefit from the Obama-era policy.
“Oh, save us from the giggling crowds!” A conversation about the history of coeducation at elite universities.
Dozens of higher education institutions in New York state will stop asking applicants whether they have past criminal convictions.
At the Richmond Alternative School in Virginia, 97 percent of students are black and 87 percent are poor, and the city just outsourced their education.
Last week, Paul Barnwell worried that academics are crowding out character education in schools. Some readers pointed out how…
Paul Barnwell, who teaches high school English in Kentucky, wrote a story for us last week about students’ broken moral…
A new study from Cleveland looks at the correlations between living conditions and kindergarten readiness.