The New York Times

A fifth-grade teacher and his principal wife hid in their bedroom as dozens of people who believed he might be a kidnapper appeared on their suburban street.

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.”

In “Red Dawn Over China,” the historian Frank Dikötter shows that Communism’s rise in China was an unlikely, violent event with a lot of outside help.

Artificial intelligence companies are urging teachers to prepare students for an “A.I.-driven future.” What that means varies from school to school.

A growing number of states are debating whether to alter their policies on summoning child protection officials if a student has excessive absences.