Families are suing a West Virginia school district for holding a Christian assembly
The lawsuit alleges that the Cabell County school system has a history of disregarding the religious freedom of its students.
Education
DeVry University misled students. Now, the federal government is erasing their debt
The Education Department says it will erase the debts of DeVry's defrauded students. But DeVry remains open for business and still enjoys access to millions of dollars in federal student loans.
Georgetown study measures colleges' return on investment
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Martin Van Der Werf, director of editorial and education policy at Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce, about their new college rankings.
Enslaved people helped build Old Salem. For years, their stories went untold.
Like thousands of North Carolinians, anti-racism educator Lucretia Berry took a field trip to Old Salem Museums & Gardens as a child.
A Norwegian student found a boat launched by New Hampshire middle schoolers in 2020
The Rye Riptides began as a science class project in New Hampshire. Some 462 days and 8,300 miles later, a sixth-grader retrieved it from an uninhabited Norwegian island, with its notes still intact.
San Francisco voters recall 3 school board members
Voters in famously liberal San Francisco ousted three members of the board who, critics argued, focused more on renaming students than getting schools back into classrooms.
Davidson County Schools to go mask-optional next week
The Davidson County School Board will lift its mask mandate next week.
Homeless youth and children are wildly undercounted, advocates say.
Homeless youth and children are not receiving the resources needed to combat the barriers of not having a stable home. The biggest obstacle is having one federal definition of homelessness.
A teacher at American University in Kabul talks about his hopes for Afghanistan
Six months after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer at the American University in Kabul, about the path forward under the Taliban rule.
The helpful tool, the College Scorecard, has been updated
The U.S. Department of Education has revised its College Scorecard — a trove of college-based performance data meant to help prospective students choose the best school for them.