From India to France, the implicit meritocratic bargain that underwrote stable societies by providing advancement to new generations is breaking down. Read more ...
Great Public Schools New York will enter the charter school battle in New York City with money from Michael R. Bloomberg and be led by a former adviser to Andrew M. Cuomo. Read more ...
At Tougaloo College, supporters danced and wept over Scott Colom’s victory. He will be Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since the Reconstruction era. Read more ...
Trump administration officials had accused the district of allowing boys on girls’ teams, which they said violated a ban on sex discrimination in schools. Read more ...
The decision by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund was part of a settlement agreement in a lawsuit claiming that the organization had discriminated against some students. Read more ...
The police in Columbus, Ohio, were investigating the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after a video of the incident drew widespread attention online, according to the university. Read more ...
The Specialized High School Admissions Test is the sole admissions criterion for the city’s eight specialized high schools. Technical difficulties sent students home with promises of an opportunity to retake it. Read more ...
Some professional and college sports teams were stuck on runways, or opting to pile into buses, ahead of games this weekend that are now uncertain. Read more ...
The University of North Carolina’s chancellor tried to protect the school from the Trump administration. Work on cancer, suicide, AIDS and coronaviruses was hit anyway. Read more ...
By Alan Blinder, Stephanie Saul, Irena Hwang, Benjamin Mueller and Mike Belleme
Kamar Samuels, the city schools chancellor, asked for an independent review days after a paraprofessional was fired following his arrest in the stabbing death of Katie Suarez. Read more ...
Readers respond to John McWhorter’s essay about “lived experience” and the arts. Also: Susan Collins; the Democrats’ challenge; A.I. in the classroom. Read more ...
Across the United States, the number of children in public education is dropping, leading many districts to question whether or where to close schools. Read more ...
By Natalie Kitroeff, Sarah Mervosh, Michael Simon Johnson, Stella Tan, Alex Stern, Lisa Chow, Marion Lozano and Alyssa Moxley
In the South Bronx, the first program of its kind offers the same classes as any high school. Only these classes are infused with hip-hop. Read more ...
Families were shaken at the school where Sayed Mohassib worked as an aide. He was fired on Monday, days after he was charged in the death of the jogger, Katie Suarez. Read more ...
By Chelsia Rose Marcius, Matthew Haag and Miles G. Cohen
