PHOENIX (AP) — A renewed focus on social justice in the wake of police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd has seen sales soar at Black-owned bookstores around the country as customers seek out knowledge from their own communities.
Although Republicans in New York have been relatively resistant to Governor Cuomo’s education plan for prisoners, the program will carry forward with the support of $7 million, granted by Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr.
According to the results of a new survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California survey on more than 1500 Californians, more than half of participants don’t believe higher education is necessary.
Although the general consensus across U.S. schools is that smaller classrooms improve learning environments for students, there is little research to support the idea that students are learning more in smaller classroom settings.
According to national data, African Americans hold fewer than one percent of doctorates awarded to mathematicians in the U.S., and overall earn fewer than 7 percent of doctoral degrees across all disciplines.
According to a new analysis by ACT’s Center for Equity in Learning the number of high school students in America that are unfamiliar with how financial aid works is “alarmingly high.”
DeVos and the administration are seeking to end the public student loan forgiveness program. As part of a $5.6 billion cut to funding, Trump wants to end the program that was created in 2007.
SEATTLE (AP) — Democrats in the Washington state Legislature thought they had passed a routine sex education requirement for public schools earlier this year. But a coalition of Republicans and religious conservatives launched a swift, historic backlash that’s led to a bitter partisan fight and an effort to overturn the measure on the November ballot.
University common reading programs this year have launched their summer reading lists, and there are some interesting choices that overlap across many universities.
A state school board has drawn criticism for creating a policy in which health, art, physical education, and career awareness classes are optional for middle school students.
According to a new report, the U.S. has only achieved a 66 percent enrollment among pre-K eligible children, while meanwhile in most developed nations the enrollment rates are closer to 90 percent.
Though data indicates that a majority of first-time undergrad students attend colleges and universities that are close to home (less than 50 miles from home), there are many areas in the country that are without higher education institutions, which makes attending college “close to home” difficult for many others to achieve.
A federal grant program that had been affecting teachers by wrongfully adding debt to their accounts will now allow for teachers to retroactively fill out paperwork to have their debts eliminated.
Davidson College in North Carolina received a $24 million grant from the Duke Endownment. The donation is one of the college’s largest in its entire history, reports Charlotte Observer.
Even though under scrutiny, a $6.5 million donation to fund a research program at Harvard University will not be returned, according to university officials.
The US Department of Education voided student debt for students who once attended universities that continued to operate even after losing their accreditation.