Brown University says it's issuing early-decision admission offers Wednesday evening, even as the search continues for a suspect in the weekend mass shooting on campus.
A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico.
When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.
Authorities are asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the mass shooting at Brown University in the hopes it might help investigators identify someone they believe might have been casing the scene before the attack.
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.
Authorities have released three new videos of a man they believe is responsible for the shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine.
Authorities have released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting.
Professional pickleball players are helping Roanoke students discover that math can be as exciting as a fast-paced rally on the court.
An aspiring neurosurgeon at Brown University and a leader of a campus Republicans group were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight.
With the Brown University shooter still on the loose, police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators push for new evidence that might help them crack the case.
A group of students and professors in Alabama is appealing a state law that bans diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools.
Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of déjà vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus.
Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren.
Since pandemic-fueled anti-Asian hate surged in 2020, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advocates have mobilized to make AAPI history mandatory learning.
A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”.
Documents that detail Lawrence Kasdan’s career have been donated to the University of Michigan, the writer and director’s alma mater.
Chase Sui Wonders always thought she was “kind of funny,” but it was officially confirmed after booking “The Studio” after just one audition.
Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses prioritize economic diversity in the wake of a ban on affirmative action.
President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, which is heavily reliant on immigrants and already strained by a worker shortage.
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration.
The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off.
A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper.
The West Virginia Supreme Court has paused a ruling that allowed parents to use religious beliefs to opt out of required school vaccines for their children.
President Donald Trump's tax legislation included a provision called "Trump Accounts," which gives $1,000 to every newborn if their parents open an account.
A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence technologies might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding.
The Trump administration’s effort to overturn decades-old school desegregation orders is facing pushback from a federal judge in Louisiana.
A West Virginia judge has ruled that parents can use religious beliefs to opt out of required school vaccines for their children.
Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine, Ohio.
The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and subsidized loans to students who aren't legally in the United States.
Tribal leaders and education advocates say the Education Department failed to meet a legal requirement by not consulting with tribes before announcing the transfer of dozens of Native American education programs to other federal agencies.
Liberty University detained a student Thursday after they allegedly threatened another student with a knife on campus, marking a notable shift in the school’s crime reporting practices following last year’s record federal fine for safety violations.
Students preparing to study abroad often have long checklists, but the experience of learning and living in another country can be challenging in unexpected ways.
A new Texas law says every public school classroom must display a poster listing the Ten Commandments.
Nigeria’s president has postponed his trip to this weekend’s Group of 20 summit after promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week in a northwestern region of the country.
Thanksgiving is next week, and some schools in our area are working to make sure food insecurity is not a problem for students this season.
The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely.
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
A program in New Mexico highlights the contributions of women through historical markers.
An immersion program that helps preserve an Alaska Native language has been a boon to children displaced by last month's severe flooding in western Alaska.
Critics are warning that Florida's new social studies standards rehabilitate aspects of McCarthyism and the anti-communist Red Scare.
Police in Oakland, California, say Laney College football coach John Beam, known from Netflix's “Last Chance U,” has died after being shot on campus.
Families and staff who rely on the federal preschool program Head Start may have to wait even longer to return to their centers even though the 43-day government shutdown ended Wednesday night.
Rick George, the athletic director at Colorado who hired football coach Deion Sanders, is stepping away from his role at the end of the academic year.
China has a new visa scheme that is creating job opportunities for foreign professionals, part of its effort to attract global talent and gain an edge in global technology.
Tensions over the Israel-Hamas war have spilled into K-12 schools around the U.S., with advocates reporting a rise in antisemitism since the 2023 surprise attack on Israel.
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school.
Cora Anderson and Madison DeCleene spent their first two years at Division III St. Norbert College believing their academic pursuits would force them to end their athletic careers earlier than they wanted.
Months after Virginia opened its first adult high school, The Excel Center, the program’s students and teachers report that everything is going well, as the school gives everyone a second chance to earn their high school diploma.
A top executive at a startup company that helped college students apply for financial aid has been sentenced to over five years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase in a $175 million buyout four years ago.
A jury in Virginia has started deliberations in a lawsuit filed against a former school administrator accused of ignoring repeated warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun hours before a teacher was shot.
Witnesses say a Chicago day care employee was detained at work during a drop-off time for children, reflecting the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics.
In the New Jersey township of Montclair, a group bicycle ride to school has become a weekly community ritual.
Authorities have arrested two Massachusetts men on charges accusing them of setting off fireworks inside an empty Harvard Medical School building last weekend.
Authorities say they've arrested two Massachusetts men in connection with a weekend explosion at Harvard Medical School.
More than 20 Democrat-led states are challenging a new Trump administration rule designed to block nonprofit and government workers from a student loan cancellation program if federal officials conclude their employer has a “substantial illegal purpose.”.
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.
The recent escape of several research monkeys after the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi interstate is the latest glimpse into the secretive world of animal research.
The government shutdown has been a source of anxiety for educators, wondering how long grant money will last and who can help them interpret federal laws.
The Trump administration is forging ahead with plans to eject some nonprofits from a popular student loan forgiveness program if their work is deemed to have an “illegal purpose."
Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar.
Trial has begun in a $40 million lawsuit accusing a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school of ignoring multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun hours before he shot his teacher.
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must release millions in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools.
Roanoke County Public Schools has selected Dr. Jamie Soltis, a graduate of the district and longtime educator, as its next superintendent, succeeding Dr. Ken Nicely, who announced his retirement in September.
An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.
The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.
The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for an estimated 2.5 million borrowers who are enrolled in certain in certain federal repayment plans following a lawsuit from the American Federation of Teachers.
Mahmoud Khalil appeared in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia as he battles a deportation case linked to his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.
Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown.
A man who sent a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” to a woman he admits sexually assaulting in college has been sentenced to two to four years in prison.
Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition.
