Education

University presidents are scrambling for answers on everything from on-campus housing to revenue-generating sports.

It took Lisa Piccirillo less than a week to answer a long-standing question about a strange knot discovered over half a century ago by the legendary John Conway.

Looking at natural disasters can offer clues about the potential long-term academic and mental health impact of lockdown on children.

An oversupply of programmers and universities has left thousands without work.

Do language learning apps really work?

With COVID-19 threatening college football's massive profits, coaches and administrators are left scrambling. Suddenly, the same people who said schools couldn't afford player labor are crying out about how they can't afford to lose it.

As the possibility that college campuses may not be able to reopen this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic grows, will a handful of elite cyborg universities soon monopolize higher education?

The coronavirus has revealed to many the geography of class in America, showing that where we live and work shapes whether we live or die. Might it offer a similar lesson about where we learn?

Local and national "adopt a high school senior" Facebook groups have proliferated as the school year comes to an end.

A survey suggests that pandemic-era domestic work isn't being divided more equitably than before the lockdown.

As COVID-19 shut down its schools, Hamilton County, Tennessee, was ideally situated for the switch to virtual learning. At least in theory.

The institution took decades to come to grips with the trauma of the killing of four students 50 years ago

An email from the FIU Foundation says students and alumni worried about coronavirus can bequeath their assets to Florida International University in their wills if they die from COVID-19.

Student groups from University of Chicago, Parsons School of Design and Columbia University are pressuring administrators with a strike.

Ten years ago, I wrote a story that changed lives forever—including my own. I went back to examine the wreckage

As schools go remote, so do tests and so does surveillance.

Young people think of college as an investment in their future. Now that future is changing in ways they can't comprehend.

Schools in northern Italy were the first in Europe to close. Since then, teachers, parents and kids across the country have all had to adapt to a new existence — and the results have surprised everyone.

The physical and mental challenges of quarantine are daunting enough. Add two screaming kids and teaching kindergarten to the mix? Anarchy.

One of the largest and wealthiest school districts in America, Fairfax County, started distancing learning this week. Between racial slurs and porn, it went so poorly they had to cancel.

Parents, let's embrace — especially during this stressful pandemic — teaching our children to be perfectly average.

Some school districts have tried to reach out since closing, but thousands of families have not responded, leaving leaders to wonder if they're hungry or safe.

We just quarantine-binged Gwyneth Paltrow's six-epidsode docuseries on Netflix, and we have some thoughts.

As reports of security issues surrounding the video conferencing app Zoom continue to mount and accounts of "video-bombing" grow increasingly disturbing, New York City has taken an extreme measure.

Left out of the stimulus bill, Class of 2020 college grads are stumbling into a job market that isn't ready for them.

Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the Nikon School can be streamed for free. The classes are normally priced anywhere between $15 to $50 each.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

ESPN's voters chose Jordan as the best college basketball player ever. LOL. Nope.

A group of Bronx High School of Science students are reconstructing a virtual campus. They aren't finished yet, but it's clear how much detail has already gone into the product.

A Norwegian school is dropping conference calls after a naked man guessed the URL to an online lesson and exposed himself on camera.

We're not sure why Dean Allyson Green thought that a video of herself dancing to Rem's "Losing My Religion" would be in any way a helpful response to students' requests for tuition refund.

This is the (virtual) reality we live in now.

With 850 million children worldwide shut out of schools, tech evangelists claim now is the time for AI education. But as the technology's power grows, so too do the dangers that come with it.

Tour a gallery of presidential portraits, print a 3-D model of a fossil or volunteer to transcribe historical documents.

University of Arkansas Law School professor Alex Nunn is ready to have some fun with this whole situation.

On Friday, President Trump said he would waive interest on federal student loans. But the move isn't as exciting as it sounds.

Student loans can be predatory and spending a lot of money on college doesn't necessarily translate to a high-paying job.

A hilarious guessing game among strangers gets very uncomfortable.

The principal's voice came on the rooftop loudspeaker. "We are initiating a lockdown. This is not a drill." My breath stopped, a bubble beneath my wool coat. My body ran.

An NBC investigation found students pay hidden fees that don't always appear on tuition bills.

First, a deeply offensive photo. Three students' college plans were soon derailed and a community closed ranks.

Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue's tuition — at less than $10,000 — for seven straight years.

The former Seahawks running back has always given smart advice, if you listen to what he says.

A look at the educators who are taking a more holistic approach to sex and relationships programming in an attempt to curb sexual assaults and better prepare their students.

DegreeQuery.com charts the 20 largest college endowments over the past 30 years.

Kindergarten redshirting, otherwise known as delaying a child's entry into kindergarten, is becoming a more common practice among parents. But does it help the kids?

Former food company executive Michelle Janavs was sentenced to five months in prison Tuesday for paying bribes in the college admissions scam, the US Attorney's Office in Massachusetts said.

In rural Tennessee, health officials have embraced a strategy for stemming addiction: teaching children as young as 6 how to administer Narcan, a nasal spray that can stop an opioid overdose from being fatal.

The rise of the STEM-obsessed, corporate-partnered university.

For many Native American teenagers Sherman Indian High School is a last chance for an education and a future.

Children with developmental disabilities were held under brutal conditions at a notorious New York facility. Decades later, they still face abuse and neglect.

Teachers from Decatur Public Schools reveal to the students they chose as their inspiration how much they mean to them.

Finland's education system is considered one of the most efficient in the world, with students spending less time in a classroom yet still performing well.

It's no secret that Americans aren't exactly leading the pack in mathematics.

When parents portray success as a linear progression of SAT scores, acceptance to selective colleges and high-powered internships, they set kids up for disappointment.

When parents portray success as a linear progression of SAT scores, acceptance to selective colleges, and high-powered internships, they set kids up for disappointment.

"We are now living in a society where the most important data relating to data and communications is locked up in one company."

Learning a language is child's play, but linguists are still trying to understand how children do it so easily.

In a new report, two major teachers unions have called for schools to end or revise the drills, saying they're harmful to children.

Maggie Gaines was told that her daughter, Margot, who has Down syndrome, had triggered a threat assessment by the school district — and that, under district policy, school officials had to call police.