Can America’s Best Engine of Social Mobility Weather a Bad Job Market?
New York City’s public universities propel young graduates into the middle class. But some worry that a bleaker early career job market has added hurdles.
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Suspect Interacted With Charlie Kirk’s Group Before Killing, Prosecutors Say
In a hearing, prosecutors used videos to trace the steps of the man they accuse of assassinating Mr. Kirk, while defense lawyers tried to poke holes in DNA evidence.
Part of Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE’ Law Ruled Illegal by Appeals Court
The law limits teaching on race, gender and other topics. Part of the law related to colleges was struck down. It remains in effect in K-12 schools.
Utah Moves to Close Teen Treatment Center Accused of Abusing Girls
Paris Hilton helped lead a campaign to shut down the Provo Canyon School, where she said she was beaten and spat on when she was 17.
US appeals court partially strikes down Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussions
Ron DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’
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A federal appeals panel struck down a significant chunk of Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s so-called Stop Woke Act on Tuesday, delivering another rebuff to the Republican’s efforts to stifle free speech in higher education.
In a scathing order,...
Yale Law School Fights to Stop Trump Deal
The university has been in talks to resolve investigations into its admissions practices. The law school’s dean and some faculty have argued a deal could compromise its independence.
The History at the Smithsonian That the White House Finds Unpatriotic
The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to reshape the American story.
Two Cases Raise Concerns About Civil Liberties in the U.S.
A man wrote an angry email to a government official, and federal agents came to his home. A reporter was barred from covering a lockdown at a New Jersey school.
Anthea Hartig, Smithsonian Museum Director, Faces the White House’s Wrath
Historians defended Anthea Hartig, director of the National Museum of American History, after the Trump administration accused her of spreading “radical activist ideology.”
Student loan promotion in England and Wales amounted to mis-selling, MPs say
Treasury select committee also says ministers have moral obligation to reverse last year’s repayment threshold freeze
Slideshows that compared student loan repayments with the cost of a mobile phone contract, and YouTube videos that did not mention the fact that loan terms could change amounted to mis-selling by the government, MPs have said.
The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, caused a furore last...
Phone contract comparisons ‘amounted to mis-selling’ student loans, MPs say
A new report says students were not well-enough informed that their loan terms could change retrospectively.
Historians Reject Trump Administration’s Criticism of Smithsonian Museum
The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Thousands of children absent from school in wake of overnight England World Cup win
Exclusive: It is estimated there were around 332,000 fewer children in school on Monday compared to last week
Around 332,000 fewer children were in school on Monday morning than a week earlier, according to initial figures, as attendance fell in the wake of England’s 3-2 win over Mexico.
School registers were down more than three percentage points on last week, after England manager Thomas...
How Revolutionary Was the American Revolution?
Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge.
Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science
Some of the nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding.
Bring Back the SAT, California
Under the test-blind policy, more students are thrown into classes for which they are unprepared.
A News Site Published a Video of a School Lockdown. Then It Was Gone.
A New Jersey judge ordered New Brunswick Today to remove the video and barred it from writing about the episode, alarming First Amendment advocates.
Mike Wallace, Who Wrote a Radical History of New York, Dies at 83
His 1998 book, “Gotham,” which told the city’s story to 1898, focused on social and economic conflict. It won a Pulitzer Prize and inspired two sequels.
Pioneer of ‘extreme male brain’ theory of autism now says phrase unhelpful
Exclusive: Prof Simon Baron-Cohen says his language was misunderstood and it is a myth that autistic people lack empathy
The scientist who pioneered the “extreme male brain” theory of autism has said he regrets characterising the condition in this way because the phrase lends itself to misunderstandings.
Prof Simon Baron-Cohen’s theory that autistic people strongly tend towards systemising...
Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts
Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils
Cutting language courses at universities and schools risks undermining social mobility and vocational skills, former education secretaries and experts in the UK have warned.
More than 70 languages academics were among 500 staff at the University of Exeter to be told last week they...
The Most American Episode of the Daily, Ever.
What 23 very American things tell us about our country.