Live Fact Check: Trump And Clinton Debate For The First Time
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Education
How Native Students Can Succeed In College: 'Be As Tough As The Land That Made You'
Native Americans make up less than 1 percent of students in college. Many say they feel invisible, without access to elite campuses. One program helps them leverage their heritage and identity.
Greensboro Community To Help Rename Aycock Middle School
A new chapter will begin for Aycock Middle School in the next school year.
Shaken By Economic Change, 'Non-Traditional' Students Are Becoming The New Normal
The massive growth in the adult student population in America's colleges and universities — one quarter of all college students are over the age of 30 — is changing the higher ed landscape.
A Harrowing, Mountain-Scaling Commute For Chinese Schoolkids
To get to school, the children must trek as many as four hours up and down a 2,600-ft. mountainside, relying on rickety ladders. Their families see their education as a way out of poverty.
Hillary Clinton's Plan For America's Students
In advance of the first debate, a rundown of the Democratic presidential candidate's positions.
Donald Trump's Plan For America's Schools
More choice, no Common Core, and a gutting of the U.S. Education Department.
How Domestic Violence In One Home Affects Every Child In A Class
New data shows violence in the home hinders the academic performance of their classmates, too. Reporting domestic violence makes a big difference.
For Students In Tulsa, Pain Frames Conversation About Crutcher
Rebecca Lee teaches in Tulsa. Lee has been talking with students about their feelings after Terence Crutcher, whose daughter attends her school, was shot to death. She shared them publicly online.
University Of Chicago Freshmen React To Letter Denouncing Trigger Warnings
Classes begin next week at the University of Chicago, which sent out a letter last month to incoming freshmen criticizing safe spaces and trigger warnings. NPR talks to two of these freshmen.