Education

For Black residents of Sumter County, the fight for representation echoed the civil rights era. For white residents, it reflected the anxiety, made manifest by the Trump era, of maintaining power over institutions even without the votes to do so.

There is no silver bullet to slay internet lies and fictions. But students can be taught to know when information is reliable.

School reopening hasn’t been an issue in the presidential campaign — until last night.

The University of Utah, where Ms. McCluskey, 21, was killed in 2018, said its employees had “failed to fully understand and respond appropriately to Lauren’s situation.”

The pandemic has made education a top issue for many voters. But you wouldn’t know that from the candidates’ stump speeches.

The University of Michigan’s reopening hasn’t gone well, forcing the local government to step in.

Alabama’s immense resources and a newly developed Southeastern Conference policy paved the way for Saban to return to the field only days after he tested positive for the coronavirus.

Providing more Americans with portable health care, portable pensions and opportunities for lifelong learning is what politics needs to be about post-Nov. 3.

Representative Elissa Slotkin, who narrowly won her Michigan district in 2018, is worried about missing out on thousands of reliably Democratic votes from Michigan State University.

Students at Wesleyan meet mostly in person to discuss virtues and ideals in a complex modern moment.

How a racial awakening unfolded in a white-dominated brotherhood known for its veneration of the Confederate general.

American officials said China had insisted that the Justice Department not proceed with cases against the arrested scholars, who are in the Chinese military and face charges of visa fraud.

In a suburban Salt Lake City district, coronavirus cases spiked as students returned to their classrooms.

Like way, way down. That could harm millions of Black, Latino and low-income students who enter the higher education system through the system.

For the past century, the New School produced iconoclastic thinkers. Now it is finding that idealism is very expensive.

The State University of New York at Oneonta had the worst coronavirus outbreak of any public university in the state.

The building that is home to Manhattan’s Hunter College High temporarily closed after three students tested positive for the virus.

Faced with soaring coronavirus caseloads, some universities told students to “stay put” for 14 days. College journalists report from their quarantined campuses.

U.S.-born children of immigrants or immigrant students raised in the United States accounted for nearly 60 percent of the growth in university enrollment since 2000.

The five women say they are paid tens of thousands of dollars less than men with similar qualifications. The university says it is “committed to pay equity.”

At Harvard Divinity School, she ensured that women were represented in scholarship, in the curriculum, in the syllabus and in publications.

Some examples of how the world of education has responded to the pandemic.

A surge in worldwide demand for low-cost laptops has created shipment delays and pitted desperate schools against one another.

In one school district in Queens, the parents of seven out of 10 students stuck with remote learning, fearing the virus risks of in-person classes.

In a heavily Asian-American district of Queens, two-thirds of families have chosen not to send their children back to school.

As a college student, she wanted to have an impact. The answer she landed on — working inside institutions — set her on the path to the vice-presidential nomination.

A U.S. Department of Labor review of staff wages from 2012 to 2014 found disparities between male and female professors.

We would like to hear from educators about their experiences teaching students remotely during the pandemic.

“Any school district now that affords football can afford spaceflight.”

Brianna Hill, who gave birth to a baby boy between sections of the exam, has earned kudos for determination. But some law school graduates say her story points to flaws with the testing system amid the pandemic.