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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts. This week, an educational concern …
Should schools still be taking a long summer break – is it detrimental to children’s learning? Or should they go year-round with shorter breaks? Julia Phillipson, Corby
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Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.
Staffs and students at the Coventry school are fundraising to help a former teacher after the crash.
Parents of children at schools have called on a council to reinstate crossing patrols.
State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum
As part of the latest Republican push in red states to promote ideologies sympathetic to Donald Trump, Oklahoma’s new social studies curriculum will ask high school students to identify “discrepancies” in the 2020 election results.
The previous standard for studying the 2020...
Linda McMahon, President Trump’s top education official, has played a leading role in pressuring the Ivy League university to comply with the administration’s demands.
The Lucha Wrestling Club in the Bronx provides a safe place for an aggressive sport. The Bronx has more public high school girls’ teams than any other New York City borough.
The proposed termination of medical research funded by the V.A. is part of the Trump administration’s broader pressure campaign against the university.
Staff say they are often unable to teach as large groups of students roam the school.
Louisiana officials want to overturn the remaining federal desegregation orders in their state. They may find allies in the Trump administration.
Education secretary earlier unveiled £49m for school-based support, as charity says many children have significant treatment needs
Ministers’ efforts to promote “grit” among children are no substitute for better funded mental health support in England’s schools, according to school leaders and experts.
Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, and Wes Streeting, the health secretary, claimed...
Once drawn to American universities as havens, some students from abroad are finding the United States is not the bedrock of free speech they had expected.
Increased mental health support for young people will give them resilience, say education and health secretaries
Schoolchildren will be helped to develop “much-needed grit” for life beyond school with increased mental health support, the education and health secretaries have said.
Writing in the Telegraph, Bridget Phillipson and Wes Streeting said they would roll out mental health support in...
A large tax cut, as well as more money for defense and immigration enforcement, would be financed by slashing health, nutrition, education and clean energy programs.
Shabbos Kestenbaum sued Harvard University over allegations it did not do enough to curb antisemitism. He had continued his lawsuit even after other students settled.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300.
There’s a cost to making it so hard to be a young person right now.
Ashley Pardo also purchased ammunition and tactical gear for the boy, 13, who had repeatedly expressed interest in committing a school shooting, the authorities said.
For months, the Harvard researcher Kseniia Petrova has challenged efforts to deport her to her native Russia for a customs violation. This week, the government charged her with a criminal felony.
PM on trip to announce increased cooperation against people smugglers alongside Albania’s prime minister, Edi Rama
All Commons Speakers, at least for the past 30 years, have complained about the government making major announcements to the media first, and not to parliament first. But rarely have any of them sounded quite as furious about this as Lindsay Hoyle, who this morning delivered an...
The government says “every single penny” raised by the policy will be spent on state schools.