In the early weeks of the Trump administration’s push to slash funding that colleges and universities rely on, grants and contracts had been cut and, in...
L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence, hostility from state...
The police in Baton Rouge, La., are investigating whether a hazing episode at a fraternity may have played a role in the recent death of a...
A courtroom can become a sort of time machine. The criminal trial of Paul Geer, a former music teacher, played out in federal court in Albany,...
When one of New York City’s most prestigious private schools hired Winston Nguyen in 2020, administrators knew about the felony conviction for fraud in his troubled...
When Nancy Cantor became president of Hunter College last fall, she asked faculty, students and staff what they wanted from the school. One answer was more...
A federal judge on Friday agreed to extend an order blocking the National Institutes of Health from reducing grant funding to institutions conducting medical and scientific...
A decade after allegations first surfaced that schools operated by New York’s Hasidic Jewish community were denying children a basic education, the state government is for...
Schoolchildren in Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania are still about half a year behind typical pre-Covid reading levels. In Florida and Michigan, the gap is about three-quarters...
Students at North Carolina’s public universities can no longer be required to take classes related to diversity, equity and inclusion to graduate. The University of Akron,...
