The New York Times

Inspectors found several instances in which child care staff members were working in classrooms even though they had not completed all of the required background checks.

The professor, speaking on a hot mic, said, “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school” when a student objected to the possible closure of a middle school. The remark was assailed as racist.

In some schools, Yondr, a pouch marketed to keep kids off devices, has proved no match for actual children.

The Nobel laureate Richard Axel is not accused of wrongdoing but called his association with Jeffrey Epstein a “serious error in judgment.”

The Trump administration accused the university’s Los Angeles campus of not doing enough to curb antisemitism, months after it tried to cut research money and demanded more than $1 billion.

Teachers say they want to equip high school students to drive artificial intelligence, rather than be mere passengers steered by chatbots.

A student objected to the potential closure of her New York City middle school. The professor, speaking on a hot mic, said, “They’re too dumb to know they’re in a bad school.” The comment was assailed as racist.

Students helped grow initial protests into a national movement crushed by the government. As the new semester began, they chanted and marched again.

A Texas law passed last year was the first in the nation to explicitly ban clubs based on gender identity in K-12 schools. The judge blocked its enforcement in three school districts.

A federal appeals court vacated a temporary block on the 2024 law, tossing a previous decision that called it “plainly unconstitutional.”

A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teens think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.”