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Education
Visa crackdown leads international students in the US to reconsider summer travel
On summer break from a Ph.D. program, an international student at University of California, San Diego, was planning a trip with a few friends to Hawaii.
Are you expected to start repaying your defaulted student loans? NPR wants to know
How will having to start repaying your student loans affect your financial situation? Tell us about your experience, and we may be in touch for an upcoming story on Morning Edition.
Forsyth County workers, educators rally in honor of May Day
More than a hundred people holding signs and chanting marched from the Forsyth County Courthouse down to Corpening Plaza. They joined thousands all across the country rallying in support of working people.
Trump again threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status, saying, 'It's what they deserve!'
Trump's comments on social media marked the latest volley in a battle between the administration and the wealthiest college in the world.
Students at FSU demand better safety measures after shooting on campus
After a campus shooting in April, students at Florida State University are demanding more safety measures. It was the second shooting on the campus in just over a decade.
North Carolina A&T student project honors the forgotten dead in Maplewood Cemetery
A group of North Carolina A&T State University students has created interpretive benches to commemorate those buried in unmarked graves in Greensboro’s Maplewood Cemetery.
Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
Alamance-Burlington school board appoints Elon University professor Eric Hall to vacant seat
While board members said there were several strong applicants, Hall won them over. He's a professor of exercise science, assistant provost for scholarship and creative activity and director of undergraduate research.
Republicans say they will still push education based on legal status
The Tennessee Legislature aimed to challenge a 1982 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that established a right to education for all students. Republican lawmakers still hope to overturn that.