This month, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine announced the philanthropist and billionaire David Geffen donated an additional $46 million to help medical students at UCLA. Back in 2014, he donated $100 million to fund merit-based scholarships for medical students at the university.
Alabama legislators are considering lifting a nearly 30-year old ban on yoga in public schools. The ban would allow k-12 to once again practice yoga in schools as a regular exercise.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Rather than wait to see how her children’s Florida public school would teach students this fall, Erica Chao enrolled her two daughters in a private school that seemed better positioned to provide instruction online during the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.
As many as one million state-licensed and nationally credentialed early childhood educators are functionally illiterate, a reality that negatively affects their preschool students.
The ExxonMobil Foundation matched more than $16 million in contributions from employees, directors and retirees and doubled that contribution, pledging a total of $49 million for 840 higher education institutions.
Lower and middle-income families will finally be able to afford or simply send their children to preschool at a lower cost thanks to a $13.8 million investment in early education pledged by the San Diego Foundation.
According to a new report by the Vera Institute of Justice and Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, postsecondary education programs lead to positive social and economic outcomes for prisoners and society.
New legislation in the state of Washington will offer free tuition to students from families who make less than $50,000 a year, whether they are attending a two-year, or four-year public university.
A new study was able to identify genetic differences associated with left-handed traits, and brain structures are different with left handed people having better verbal skills.
A new study by researchers at the Reading & Literacy Discovery Center of Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospital was able to produce brain images with evidence that reading has benefits and screen-time has detrimental effects on a child during the formative years of 3 to 5 years-old.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — When given the choice between virtual and in-person learning, Joel Barnes decided to send his four kids back to the classroom in northeastern Mississippi in late July.
The University of San Francisco announced today that it was awarded $15 million by Gordon Getty to establish Honors College, which will focus on arts, sciences and humanities.
In California, Latinx students are doing better than ever before, with more students graduating and going off to college, according to an analysis from Campaign for College Opportunity.
In the U.S., women make up more than two-thirds of students studying abroad, a proportion that has remained relatively the same for the last 10 years, according to a new report.
Billions of dollars are spent on education initiatives that seek to improve opportunities for Americans, but Nick Hanauer, founder of the public-policy incubator Civic Ventures, argues that fighting inequality should come first.