Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools
Universities from Harvard to Hampshire have admitted significantly more students with disabilities over the last decade, as diagnoses for A.D.H.D. and anxiety increase.
Education
SEND transport staff ‘kicked and bitten by pupils’
A worker who was bitten three times by an eight-year-old boy wants more support from the council.
U.S. Schools Are Betting Big on A.I. Will New York City Be Next?
This could be a pivotal year in shaping what role artificial intelligence plays in American schools. Some families want Mayor Mamdani to hit the brakes.
Nine in 10 pupils offered first-choice school
Pupils across the country are finding out which secondary school they have been allocated.
‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda
Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile
In order to watch the Oscar-nominated documentary in which many of them have starring roles, pupils at Karabash School No 1 have had to source bootlegged copies, viewing the...
China’s Parents Are Outsourcing the Homework Grind to A.I.
Parents in China are turning to A.I. chatbots and other tools to help their children gain an edge and ease the fighting over homework.
ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know
Dylan Lopez Contreras, a senior at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May. The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams
The students at Ellis Prep academy – like most high schoolers – have a lot on their mind right now.
Essay deadlines, college applications, younger siblings and dance rehearsals. But also, the immigration operations across the US and...
UK teachers and parents urged to talk to children about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes
Experts say trusted adults must be brave and discuss issue or risk children looking for answers from unsafe sources
Teachers and parents in the UK need to be brave and discuss Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes with children and young people or risk them looking for answers from dubious or dangerous sources, according to experts who will host the first public seminar for schools on the issue.
Thrive, the...
A Rock Star Philosopher
Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor, has been predicting this political moment for decades. We called him to discuss where we go from here.
The American Comedian Who Became a Funnyman in China
Jesse Appell left everything behind to pursue a comedy career in China, where Western-style club comedy was just finding its footing.
Hegseth Cuts Ties With Yale, Georgetown and Other Top Universities
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he was banning attendance at Yale, Princeton, Brown and other elite colleges and think tanks, accusing them of indoctrinating service members with liberal ideologies.
It’s been decreed: something must be done about student loans in England
The education secretary wants a fairer system and the Tories have leapt in with their own plan – but why now?
For anyone who attended university in England in the last 15 or so years, the idea of student loans feeling like some sort of debt trap is hardly news. But three weeks ago, when the journalist Oli Dugmore discussed this on the BBC’s Question Time, it felt like a moment.
It was less the...
A Tale of Two Seasons at Columbia, and Two Responses to Student Arrests
When Mahmoud Khalil was detained by immigration agents last year, the university’s response was restrained. It was different with Elmina Aghayeva this week.
The National Year of Reading celebrates the ‘joy’ of books. But let’s not forget they can also be deeply troubling, too | Charlotte Higgins
Encounters with great art can be absorbing, unsettling and even painful. How has this been tamed into mere ‘reading for pleasure’?
It is the UK’s National Year of Reading. Specifically, this government-led scheme is about “reading for pleasure” and “the joy of reading”. This is not a matter of whimsy. Research has linked reading for pleasure in childhood to a host of positive...
Private schools lose legal challenge over VAT changes
A group of low-fee paying private schools have challenged the government’s removal of the VAT exemption.
Appeal court rejects latest challenge to adding VAT to UK private school fees
Parents opposing plans told they can home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools
The court of appeal has rejected the latest challenge to the addition of VAT to private school fees, telling parents they have the option to home school their children if they object to sending them to state schools.
The appeal was launched by families and leaders of four independent...
‘Very Republican, very patriotic’: right-leaning civic centers now offer courses at US public colleges
Republican lawmakers push for conservative professors to counter purported leftwing indoctrination in schools
This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a non-profit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.
One glossy insert stuck out from the orientation packet handed to hundreds of Ohio State University freshmen last August. It advertised a...
Nearly a million 16-24 year-olds not working or in education
People at the start of their careers are particularly affected by the UK’s weak job market.
Send provision and student loans: will Labour’s changes backfire? – podcast
As the dust settles on the government’s landmark changes to children’s special educational needs and disabilities provision, what will their impact really be on young people, their families and schools? John Harris and Kiran Stacey look at what we know so far. And, a growing backlash from graduates over student loan payments, led by the influential consumer champion Martin Lewis, is causing...
TikTok and Snapchat posts urge London pupils to join ‘school wars’ fights
Met urges pupils not to get involved and asks platforms to ban accounts promoting ‘fights’ with images of weapons
Pupils as young as 11 are being encouraged to join in school fights in posts on TikTok and Snapchat, prompting police to urge children not to get involved.
The Metropolitan police have asked social media platforms to ban accounts promoting “school wars”, while headteachers have...
What does Neet stand for and how many are there in the UK?
Ministers want to tackle the high number of young people not in education, employment or training.