We should not demand ever more knowledge of newcomers and ever less of our current citizens.

New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.

The donations to over a dozen schools come as the Trump administration is directing more funds to the historically Black institutions, too.

Readers react to developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Also: A teacher’s suspension.

Asking students to drill down on their schoolwork amid an array of digital distractions is inimical to learning.

President Trump has transformed the agency. We look at what’s happening on the inside.

The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistan military as hostilities between the two countries intensify.

Three-quarters of the schools in the area around the capital will be closed, although officials say the health risk from asbestos found in colored sand is low.

James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery shape your entire worldview.

When Ali Faqirzada was detained after a routine asylum hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese tapped their networks to help.

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.

Some Democrats and supporters of the National Endowment for the Humanities are questioning what they see as gutted procedures and a tilt toward handpicked projects.