A College Program for Disadvantaged Teens Could Shake Up Elite Admissions
But the one measure available to test his college readiness — his A.P. tests — deflated him. “When I got back my 2s,” he recalled,...
Tag : Education (K-12)
Republicans Seize on Shuttered Schools as a Political Rallying Cry
Like their counterparts in the Senate, House Republicans have tried to capitalize on the issue. As an array of House panels worked this week to...
Biden Trims Ambitions on School Reopening Pledge
WASHINGTON — President Biden appeared to give many educators and parents what they had been seeking for nearly a year when he pledged in the...
Missing in School Reopening Plans: Black Families’ Trust
For Farah Despeignes, the choice of whether to send her children back to New York City classrooms as the coronavirus pandemic raged on last fall...
Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen
This fall, when most school districts decided not to reopen, more parents began to speak out. The parents of a 14-year-old boy in Maryland who...
The Potential Plus of Having a Former ‘English Learner’ as Education Secretary
The pandemic crisis is badly disrupting education for many English learners, who rely on a combination of additional school programs and the benefits of face-to-face...
William Winter, Reform-Minded Mississippi Governor, Dies at 97
“He was the model of what you aspire to be as governor,” Ray Mabus, who worked in Mr. Winter’s administration and served as governor himself...
Biden to Pick Latino Chief of Connecticut Schools as Education Secretary
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is expected to nominate Miguel A. Cardona, Connecticut’s education commissioner, to serve as his education secretary, tapping a...
Supreme Court Rejects Religious School’s Challenge to Kentucky Virus Order
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to exempt religious schools in Kentucky from an order from Gov. Andy Beshear that temporarily shut down...