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South Sudan is the world’s newest nation and its education system is on the verge of collapse, putting an entire generation at risk.

Texas is set to pass what may be the first state-mandated book list for public school students. It focuses on classic literature and includes Bible excerpts.

Wanting to make top schools look less like country clubs and more like the country shouldn’t be a partisan issue.

Now, the professor is in a fight with the university over whether he can use M.I.T. money to promote a book critical of the school.

The city had accused Jasmine Ray of fiscal mismanagement. She said that she had been unfairly targeted because of her ties to the former mayor.

Andres Chait is a district veteran who has helped keep peace with labor unions. He started in the classroom and now runs a district with hundreds of thousands of students.

At a graduation ceremony for high schools affiliated with the college, Leon Botstein said, “To get anything done, you’re going to have to dance with the devil.”

The high school philosophy exam is a rite of passage for French students. This year included questions about Friedrich Nietzsche’s 1878 book, “Human, All Too Human.”

Whitman College is trying to keep it simple: Tell us your adjusted gross income, and we won’t make you apply and get in just to receive a price quote.

Alienated by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims about autism, advocates for disabled students are sounding the alarm about the Trump administration's shifting special education programs to his department.

A math whiz as a young man, he later blazed trails, both with his theoretical advances and his advocacy for minority students.

In books like “The Cheese and the Worms,” he helped push beyond the story of great events and leaders, entering the minds and hearts of peasants.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani encouraged students to stay in school during the Knicks parade on Thursday, which packed Lower Manhattan and the subways with fans.