How the Ukraine War Is Affecting Childrens Education Russian forces have destroyed or damaged thousands of schools since invading Ukraine. But the harms to the country's education system go far beyond damaged buildings. Experts say schooling is suffe...
Engineering Schools Offer Money, View into Energy Crisis At a recent International Energy Agency conference in Paris, government and business leaders said the world is making progress on clean energy projects. However, the world's energy demands keep...
LGBTQ, Students of Color Feel Less Welcome under New US State Laws Lawmakers in several U.S. states have passed limits on discussions of race, gender and sexuality in classrooms. Some students say the measures targeting parts of their identity have m...
Colleges, Universities Trying to Increase Number of Male Students Donje Gates is 18 years old and lives in Chicago, Illinois. His family wants him to go to college in the fall. But Gates is thinking about going to a trade school instead. He says he w...
Can Tech Protect US Schools from Mass Shootings? The many school shootings across the United States have led to demand from schools for advanced technology security systems. A little over one year ago, a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in...
US Colleges Plan for Courts Decision on Affirmative Action American colleges and universities are expecting an important decision from the U.S. Supreme Court involving a policy called affirmative action. The decision will come by the end of June. Aff...
US Lawmakers Seek to Fill Labor Shortage with Children A report from a policy group in Washington, D.C., says lawmakers in at least 10 states have proposed easing child labor laws over the last two years. The bills would make it easier for children u...
Message to 2023 Graduates: Want Things to Change? Take Over Musicians, actors, politicians, business leaders, writers, and Nobel Prize winners were among the commencement speakers in 2023. At Howard University in Washington, D.C., graduates heard fro...
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted learning across the world. As students are back in class, some are much more behind than others. In the United States, teachers are working hard to help students make up for missed learning. Many schools are judging in...
Ultimate Frisbee Connects International, American Students On an April evening in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, members of the Carolina Flyers are playing a fast-paced practice game. The Flyers are a men's professional Ultimate frisbee team. Their opp...
US States Try to Increase Teacher Pay Leaders of U.S. states are pushing for pay increases and other rewards as schools across the country try to employ more teachers. Groups that follow teacher pay say that more than half of the states' governors ha...
Recreation Attracts Students, Adds to College Experience When GianMarco Douglas was thinking about which medical school to attend earlier this year, he had a number of things in mind. He wanted to go to a school that offered a good education, friendl...
The College Board is changing its new Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies course again. Over the winter, the AP made changes to the course that critics said were made because of political pressure. 美国大学委员会再次修订了新的...
Debate Brings Many Benefits to Students Nearly three hours after midnight, Tajaih Robinson and Iyana Trotman of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina finally heard the judges' decision. They had defeated the University of Michigan i...
Evidence-based Reading Methods Called for in US Schools There has long been a debate among experts about how best to teach children to read in the United States. The debate involves two methods for teaching words: learning words as a whole, or breaki...
