Mahmoud Khalil to Appeal to Supreme Court in Effort to Halt Deportation
The move was expected to come after a federal appeals court on Friday ruled against Mr. Khalil, who became the face of President Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian protesters.
Education
Trump Administration Offers Conflicting View of Civil Rights Cuts
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has said she wants to hire more civil rights lawyers, but the White House has proposed cutting that office in half.
Soft power sell-off: anger as British Council announces sale of historic Madrid building
Growing backlash among European staff against radical cuts to pay off Covid-era debt, with some accusing council of ‘colonial attitude’
The historic Palacete building at 31 Paseo del General Martínez Campos in Madrid’s upmarket Chamberí district has been home to the British Council in Spain for about 70 years.
About 5,000 students each year pass through its 35 classrooms, learning English,...
Court Cases About Money and Speech in Politics
Readers discuss court cases about campaign finance. Also: Computer science and the humanities.
Primary schools lose out as Labour slashes sport funding
New scheme will be worth 40% less than current government grants and will be shared with secondaries
Funding for primary school sport in England is to be slashed by Labour, including the abolition of a grant designed to cement the 2012 Olympic legacy, to the dismay of school leaders.
The Department for Education said that the £320m fund paid directly to primary schools each year through its PE...
Want to Move 529 Account Money to a Roth IRA? There’s a Hitch.
A law requires the rollover money to have been in the 529 for at least 15 years. But it isn’t clear what happens if you change the account’s beneficiary.
UK police bosses urge unsafe platforms to be blocked for under-16s
The NCA and NPCC say children should be blocked from accessing sites which do not stop them seeing nudes or being contacted by strangers.
Cuba Needs a New Story
How can Cubans move forward if they aren’t ready to reckon with their past?
Meta settles major social media addiction lawsuit with school district
Kentucky is one of about 1,200 school districts across the US that have each sued Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube
Meta agreed to settle a major lawsuit on Thursday with a school district in Kentucky over claims that its social networks are designed to be addictive, leading to harm in children. The settlement comes less than three weeks before the case was scheduled to go to trial in federal...
2 Florida College Students Suspended Over Racist Group Chat
The students held leadership positions in Republican groups. The racist rhetoric, documented in court papers, highlights a growing rift in the party.
‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground
When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space
The play area at St John’s Church of England primary in Barnet, north London, used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that the children couldn’t be dismissed from the playground,” says Macci Dobie, the school’s...
Struggling with the nine times table? I have a failsafe method | Adrian Chiles
Apparently, nines are the hardest to grasp for primary school children. If only they’d learned how to cheat like me
Maths was never my thing. I quite enjoyed it at O-level, to the extent that I chose to do it at A-level. As early as the first week of the A-level course, however, it became abundantly clear that the subject was quite beyond me. I simply couldn’t make head or tail of what the...
A Defense of a Liberal Arts Education in the Age of A.I.
Making the case for a “useless” education.
60 Percent of Grades at Harvard Were A’s. Enough Is Enough.
We deserve an A-minus for effort.
What Graduation Speakers Are Telling the Class of 2026
Will A.I. replace them? Graduation speakers addressed student uncertainty about the future with jokes and words of wisdom.
Schools are ‘pipeline’ to joblessness for many people, says ex-Labour adviser
Ban social media and reform education to tackle scandal of young people not in work or study, says Peter Hyman
Schools have become a “pipeline” to worklessness for a large cohort of young people in the UK, according to an influential former Labour adviser who has called for urgent action to help a “lost generation”.
Peter Hyman, a former adviser to Tony Blair and Keir Starmer, told the Guardian...
For Columbia’s Class of 2026, a Toasty Graduation Day Caps Years of Heat
They encountered demonstrations and ultimatums from the Trump administration. At Wednesday’s commencement, it was all about the sweltering weather.
Why Are Kids Using A.I. at School?
A.I. is replicating the pattern followed by every ed-tech quick fix.
Backlash over Department for Education videos with Gemma Collins
The education secretary defends videos starring The Only Way Is Essex star promoting post-16 education.
School Choice Is Creating Two Separate School Systems
Plus, plans for a national voucher program.
British Council staff in Italy to strike over proposed 80% workforce cut
Soft power institution faces funding crisis linked to Covid-era government loan due to be repaid by September
Staff at the British Council in Italy will go on strike over deep cuts that would slash about 80% of its workforce due to a funding crisis facing the organisation.
Out of 130 of its teaching staff across Rome, Milan and Naples, 108 are being targeted as teaching activities in Italy face...