Tamar Shirinian, a former professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, was among those who lost their jobs over their posts about the slain conservative activist. Read more ...
A legal challenge to a law that takes effect this week has doubled the amount certain graduate students can borrow from the federal government to $50,000 per year. Read more ...
Instead of home-schooling her daughter, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars building an idiosyncratic educational institution in the Hamptons. Read more ...
Two federal courts have blocked a new Trump administration rule that could have narrowed eligibility for a student loan forgiveness program for public servants. Read more ...
The Trump administration has been scrutinizing the University of California, Berkeley, which insists its new program will be a nonpartisan venture. Read more ...
Most states teach history by subject. Texas will go chronologically, starting with ancient history and reaching World War II by seventh grade. Read more ...
The university hired a high-powered law firm to try to reach an agreement with the Justice Department over claims its admissions practices hurt white and Asian applicants. Read more ...
By Michael S. Schmidt, Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender
Texas passed what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts. Read more ...
One nonprofit, Defending Education, initiated nearly a dozen civil rights investigations targeting diversity programs and transgender policies. Read more ...
Huge memory-chip profits from the global A.I. boom have increased interest in semiconductor factory work. But behind the hype are uncertain job prospects. Read more ...
A group of government interns is campaigning for a paid wage, reigniting a debate over ethics and opportunity in one of the world’s most expensive cities. Read more ...
In a notice flagging a series of problems with a clinical trial, the journal Nature Medicine said its editors “no longer have confidence in the integrity of the results.” Read more ...
The administration’s report criticizing the National Museum of American History echoes themes of President Trump’s push to reshape the American story. Read more ...
A man wrote an angry email to a government official, and federal agents came to his home. A reporter was barred from covering a lockdown at a New Jersey school. Read more ...
The nation’s largest group of scholars of U.S. history denounced a White House report attacking the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Read more ...
Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge. Read more ...
