How Math Turned Me From a D.E.I. Skeptic to a Supporter
It’s about more than figuring out the right or wrong answers to questions.
Education
At Harvard, Judge’s Ruling on Funding Gives Students One More Thing to Ponder
Many students were cautiously hopeful after a judge said the Trump administration could not freeze research funding to the university. But they also had other things on their minds.
Be Best, bots: Melania Trump and tech CEOs discuss saturating US schools with AI
Pivoting from her anti-bullying campaign, the US first lady has inaugurated a taskforce on AI and childhood education
Melania Trump has turned her attention from her “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign to the nation’s best bots for tots.
The first lady welcomed some of the US’s foremost tech leaders – and a few bit players – to the East Wing of the White House on Thursday to inaugurate a...
College Board Cancels Tool for Finding Low-Income High Achievers
After the Trump administration criticized the use of what it called “racial proxies,” the group behind the SAT shut down a way for universities to identify promising applicants from disadvantaged communities.
Harvard Won Its Money Back, but Will It Actually Get It?
A judge ruled that the Trump administration broke the law in canceling billions in federal funds for Harvard. Whether the money is returned matters for the rest of higher education.
The Tik Tok Famous Chef Keeping a Sorority Fed
Kevin Ashton found job satisfaction mentoring sorority sisters at the University of Nevada, Reno.
University fees could be linked to teaching standards, regulator says
England’s universities regulator says some institutions might have to charge less than others.
Northwestern’s President Will Resign After University Faced Republican Pressure
The president, Michael Schill, will step down after months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million to the university’s research funds.
Edgar Feuchtwanger, Who Wrote About Being Hitler’s Neighbor, Dies at 100
He and his Jewish family lived across the street from the German leader in the 1930s. He later became a British professor and historian.
Year 12 cancelled at start of school’s new term
Parents are sent a letter just as the new school year starts telling them A levels are being dropped.
Trump wants to rewrite American history. Maybe he should learn it first | Sidney Blumenthal
The president seeking to overhaul the Smithsonian has a dark vision of the past that he’s using to advance his agenda
Of all the presidents, Donald Trump – the man who would remake the Smithsonian and alter its presentation of “how bad slavery was”, as he put it – is surely the most ignorant of American history itself.
What Trump doesn’t know fills the Library of Congress, whose chief...
Today’s the First Day of No Smartphones in Schools
As the year begins in the city’s public school system, students and their parents have to adjust to a smartphone ban. The phones must be stored in pouches or lockers.
Trump Administration Targets Financial Relief for Undocumented Students
The Justice Department has challenged several states that offer in-state tuition to unauthorized immigrants, contending that the policies discriminate against U.S. citizens.
Summer’s ending – and the delusion that a new me might be possible is back | Emma Brockes
The start of a new school year always awakens my resolve: time to be more disciplined, less cluttered and nicer to the cats
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Every year at this time, I think of a quote from the Bible, but which I know from Oranges Are Not the...
What Is College Like for You?
Higher education is in flux, and students are adjusting to a lot of changes.
Judge sides with Harvard and orders Trump to reverse billions in funding cuts – US politics live
Federal judge in Boston orders reversal of administration’s cuts to more than $2.6bn in funding research grants
As part of the Trump administration’s campaign of mass deportations, the defense department will soon have hundreds of military judges work on immigration cases, the Associated Press reports:
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to...
Harvard Secures a Court Victory in Its Fight With Trump
Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.
Judge Issues Ruling Helpful to Harvard in Case Against Trump
Harvard had sued the Trump administration in an effort to restore billions in research funds that the government canceled this spring.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
The state would be the first to scrap requirements that children be vaccinated to attend school, among other rules.
UK parents and teachers: share your experiences of the use of screens in schools
We would like to hear your views on technology and screens in schools, and what it’s like to teach in classrooms
The use of screens technology in schools has grown from simply the use of computers and digital whiteboards. Some use artificial intelligence tools to enhance learning and others encourage children to use tablets.
Some are calling for smartphones to be legally banned at schools, or...
How to protect US students from heat in schools – and is it time to rethink summer break?
US schools were built for a cooler climate that no longer exists. Now they face record-high temperatures
As schools are returning to session following one of the hottest summers ever recorded, districts are faced with a new problem: how to handle increasingly extreme heatwaves, both in and outside the classroom.
Unbearably hot days are no longer just a summer problem. In the US districts from...