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Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein

Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Ep...

NYT > Education, Nov 19, 2025 - 16:54

The university is reviewing newly released emails between the convicted sex offe...

At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In.

At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narra...

NYT > Education, Nov 19, 2025 - 15:05

At Montclair State University in New Jersey, a departmental restructuring plan i...

Do You Use A.I. for College Application Advice?

Do You Use A.I. for College Application Advice?

NYT > Education, Nov 19, 2025 - 15:05

We want to hear about it.

Rural Kids Need More Than Vocational School

Rural Kids Need More Than Vocational School

NYT > Education, Nov 19, 2025 - 10:06

We need to support working-class kids before the 21st century abandons them comp...

Federal Judge Orders Some Texas Schools to Remove Ten Commandment Posters

Federal Judge Orders Some Texas Schools to Remove Ten C...

NYT > Education, Nov 18, 2025 - 21:20

The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infri...

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department

Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Educa...

NYT > Education, Nov 18, 2025 - 19:03

Responsibilities for K-12 and college programs, among others, will be moved to o...

‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the Future of Higher Ed

‘We Lost Our Mission’: Three University Leaders on the ...

NYT > Education, Nov 18, 2025 - 16:43

The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.

Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails

Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over...

NYT > Education, Nov 18, 2025 - 11:06

New emails showed that Mr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in to...

Trump Made the Citizenship Test Harder. What if Every American Had to Take It?

Trump Made the Citizenship Test Harder. What if Every A...

NYT > Education, Nov 18, 2025 - 05:06

We should not demand ever more knowledge of newcomers and ever less of our curre...

‘We Need to Be Worried’: Three University Leaders on the Fate of Higher Education in the Trump Era

‘We Need to Be Worried’: Three University Leaders on th...

NYT > Education, Nov 18, 2025 - 05:06

The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.

Trump’s New Take on the Epstein Files

Trump’s New Take on the Epstein Files

NYT > Education, Nov 17, 2025 - 13:24

Readers react to developments in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Also: A teacher’s sus...

New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds

New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fal...

NYT > Education, Nov 17, 2025 - 00:04

The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and unive...

James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.

James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded ...

NYT > Education, Nov 16, 2025 - 17:04

James Watson’s legacy is a cautionary tale against letting a profound discovery ...

Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student

Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afgh...

NYT > Education, Nov 16, 2025 - 03:35

When Ali Faqirzada was detained after a routine asylum hearing in New York, offi...

America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat

America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat

NYT > Education, Nov 15, 2025 - 09:06

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States int...

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse?

An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid t...

NYT > Education, Nov 15, 2025 - 09:06

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by s...

Is Your College Football Team Short of Cash? Sports Betting Can Help.

Is Your College Football Team Short of Cash? Sports Bet...

NYT > Education, Nov 15, 2025 - 05:30

Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that pro...

How Much Screen Time Is Your Child Getting at School? We Asked 350 Teachers.

How Much Screen Time Is Your Child Getting at School? W...

NYT > Education, Nov 13, 2025 - 17:35

Even as schools have banned phones, a Times survey shows how the pandemic-era pr...

Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson

Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Suprema...

NYT > Education, Nov 13, 2025 - 17:35

The professor will no longer be able to teach a class on diversity after she sho...

He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms

He Helped Cities Anticipate Damage From Storms

NYT > Education, Nov 13, 2025 - 06:51

Austin Becker developed an early warning system to protect critical infrastructu...

350 Teachers on How Screens Take Over Classrooms, as Early as Kindergarten

350 Teachers on How Screens Take Over Classrooms, as Ea...

NYT > Education, Nov 12, 2025 - 19:25

Even as schools have banned phones, a Times survey shows how the pandemic-era pr...

College Romance Books That Will Make You Swoon

College Romance Books That Will Make You Swoon

NYT > Education, Nov 12, 2025 - 07:37

The explosive potential of those years makes every emotion more intense — and a ...

Kindergartners With Chromebooks: 350 Teachers on How Screens Took Over School

Kindergartners With Chromebooks: 350 Teachers on How Sc...

NYT > Education, Nov 12, 2025 - 07:37

Even as schools have banned phones, the pandemic-era practice of giving students...

Teaching History in the Trump Era

Teaching History in the Trump Era

NYT > Education, Nov 11, 2025 - 10:14

Readers respond to an article about how the teaching of U.S. history is changing...

Book Review: ‘The American Revolution,’ by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns

Book Review: ‘The American Revolution,’ by Geoffrey C. ...

NYT > Education, Nov 10, 2025 - 05:52

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary seri...

Make Medical School Three Years

Make Medical School Three Years

NYT > Education, Nov 10, 2025 - 05:52

Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.

For the Children of Performa, the Sound of Art Is a Buzz and a Growl

For the Children of Performa, the Sound of Art Is a Buz...

NYT > Education, Nov 10, 2025 - 05:52

An arts festival taps third- and fourth-graders to teach adults a thing or two a...

Cornell Reaches Deal With Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds

Cornell Reaches Deal With Trump Administration to Resto...

NYT > Education, Nov 7, 2025 - 18:52

The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration s...

When a Vietnam Protest on Campus Turned Deadly

When a Vietnam Protest on Campus Turned Deadly

NYT > Education, Nov 7, 2025 - 13:41

In May 1970, National Guard troops clashed with students at Kent State Universit...

John Cleary, Wounded in Kent State Shooting, Dies at 74

John Cleary, Wounded in Kent State Shooting, Dies at 74

NYT > Education, Nov 7, 2025 - 13:41

A photo of him lying on the ground and bleeding made the cover of Life magazine ...

How Child Abuse Pediatricians Approach Their Work

How Child Abuse Pediatricians Approach Their Work

NYT > Education, Nov 6, 2025 - 19:04

Following the release of “The Preventionist,” a group of CAPs discuss diagnostic...

Trump Pressure Risking Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns

Trump Pressure Risking Free Speech at University of Cal...

NYT > Education, Nov 6, 2025 - 19:04

A federal judge said that faculty members were being affected in their teaching ...

Her Research Could Improve Training For Service Dogs

Her Research Could Improve Training For Service Dogs

NYT > Education, Nov 6, 2025 - 13:07

“This is a type of science that has an impact that most people could see in thei...

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

NYT > Education, Nov 6, 2025 - 13:07

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive...

6 Ways Zohran Mamdani Can Improve New York City

6 Ways Zohran Mamdani Can Improve New York City

NYT > Education, Nov 5, 2025 - 19:27

Mamdani, who campaigned on sweeping promises, can build a positive legacy by foc...

For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment

For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemplo...

NYT > Education, Nov 5, 2025 - 17:32

Technology has left them with little autonomy or security in their jobs.

Aging N.Y.C. Seminary’s Prayers Are Answered With a Lease by Vanderbilt

Aging N.Y.C. Seminary’s Prayers Are Answered With a Lea...

NYT > Education, Nov 5, 2025 - 17:32

The Tennessee university has promised to make repairs to the General Theological...

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Moment I Remember Most’

Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Moment I Remember Most’

NYT > Education, Nov 5, 2025 - 17:32

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100...

Dehumanizing and Dystopian: How Gen Z-ers See Work

Dehumanizing and Dystopian: How Gen Z-ers See Work

NYT > Education, Nov 5, 2025 - 10:31

Technology has left them with little autonomy or security in their jobs.

Penn Data Breach Involves Decades of Student and Alumni Information

Penn Data Breach Involves Decades of Student and Alumni...

NYT > Education, Nov 4, 2025 - 20:53

The hacker seemed focused on the Ivy League school’s admissions preferences.

Two Massachusetts Men Charged in Explosion at Harvard Medical School

Two Massachusetts Men Charged in Explosion at Harvard M...

NYT > Education, Nov 4, 2025 - 18:54

The predawn blast at a Harvard lab caused minor damage and led to the arrest of ...

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of Other Editors.

The Editor Got a Letter From ‘Dr. B.S.’ So Did a Lot of...

NYT > Education, Nov 4, 2025 - 14:06

The rise of artificial intelligence has produced serial writers to science and m...

How Helpful is Niche’s College Cost Comparison Tool?

How Helpful is Niche’s College Cost Comparison Tool?

NYT > Education, Nov 4, 2025 - 06:30

Niche is the latest company to help families predict what they might pay. If onl...

We Charted the Decline in International Students to the U.S.

We Charted the Decline in International Students to the...

NYT > Education, Nov 3, 2025 - 06:32

The Upshot reporter Aatish Bhatia walks through a chart he created showing the d...

As Government Shutdown Slows Air Traffic Training, These Schools Are Stepping In

As Government Shutdown Slows Air Traffic Training, Thes...

NYT > Education, Nov 2, 2025 - 20:33

New programs cannot turn out the numbers needed to make up for the controller sh...

Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75

Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive...

NYT > Education, Nov 1, 2025 - 19:51

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera ...

Indiana University Lifts Ban on Printing News in College Newspaper

Indiana University Lifts Ban on Printing News in Colleg...

NYT > Education, Oct 31, 2025 - 16:02

The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student med...

We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

NYT > Education, Oct 31, 2025 - 05:08

Professor Marianne Hirsch on how the way we teach the “crime of all crimes” info...

Trump Rule Could Ban Some Public Servants From Student Loan Forgiveness

Trump Rule Could Ban Some Public Servants From Student ...

NYT > Education, Oct 30, 2025 - 16:30

A new rule could disqualify certain employers from the Public Service Loan Forgi...

3 Monkeys Still on the Loose After Truck Overturns on Mississippi Highway

3 Monkeys Still on the Loose After Truck Overturns on M...

NYT > Education, Oct 30, 2025 - 14:13

Five other rhesus monkeys had been shot and killed after Mississippi officials w...