Colleges and universities, responding to demand for faster routes to jobs, are adding a new kind of degree: a reduced-credit bachelor’s degree that can be earned in three years instead of the usual ...

A few months before her daughter started kindergarten, Claire Benoist saw a Facebook post that stunned her. Another family with an incoming kindergartner was wondering if it was true that children in ...

Students walk through an entrance to Yale University’s Old Campus in New Haven. Yale is among the institutions facing increased taxes on their endowments imposed by Republicans in Congress. Credit: ...

After DOGE gutted IES, the education and statistics agency inside the Education Department, some in the Trump administration are trying to rebuild it. A new report of ideas on how to do that was ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Quinn McDonald planned to spend the typical four years working toward a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Then he heard about a place where he could get the same degree in ...

In Indiana, a rural school district leader started a network of microschools to help keep students in his schools. The model could spread.

A year ago, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency swept into the Department of Education and devastated its research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES). Nearly 100 contracts for ...

Shuttering a women’s studies program, overhauling a gender studies program and cancelling courses focused on race and gender is an attack on all feminist movements and women everywhere.

As public funding fails to keep up with inflation, costs are getting passed on to families that in many cases can’t afford to pay more.

When Texas A&M ended its women’s studies program and overhauled its race and gender classes last month, its actions joined a long line of recent institutional rollbacks of women’s rights and autonomy ...

Maronda Mims was three semesters from completing her degree at Rutgers University when a family crisis intervened. She is ready to reenroll, but it is no easy feat. Credit: Yuvraj Khanna for the ...