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These Moms Want to Design Your Dorm Room

These Moms Want to Design Your Dorm Room

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 18:53

Influencers are making money online by recommending dorm products and designs to...

Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus

Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t ...

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 16:00

Students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of Preside...

A.I. Might Change the World Without Remaking It

A.I. Might Change the World Without Remaking It

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 16:00

Artificial intelligence may change the world, but it probably won’t remake it.

A 1990 Measles Outbreak Shows How the Disease Can Roar Back

A 1990 Measles Outbreak Shows How the Disease Can Roar ...

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 14:01

To understand the virus’s re-emergence in America in 2025, some experts are look...

What Richard Hofstadter Tells Us About the American University in Crisis.

What Richard Hofstadter Tells Us About the American Uni...

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 06:37

Political challenges to elite colleges have long been a feature of life in the U...

Some Momfluencers Are Making Money Online by Helping College Students Master Dorm Life

Some Momfluencers Are Making Money Online by Helping Co...

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 06:37

Influencers are making money online by recommending dorm products and designs to...

Why So Many Parents Are Opting Out of Public Schools

Why So Many Parents Are Opting Out of Public Schools

NYT > Education, Aug 20, 2025 - 06:37

A boom in private-school vouchers and home-schooling has created an enrollment c...

A Long Sunrise Walk to Start the School Year

A Long Sunrise Walk to Start the School Year

NYT > Education, Aug 19, 2025 - 05:36

In an annual tradition at the Pratt Institute, first-year students will get to k...

Ask The Morning: What Do You Want to Know About K-12 Schools?

Ask The Morning: What Do You Want to Know About K-12 Sc...

NYT > Education, Aug 18, 2025 - 16:30

The school year is beginning. We’ll find experts to answer your questions.

California Democrats Are Fighting Trump’s Battle for Him

California Democrats Are Fighting Trump’s Battle for Him

NYT > Education, Aug 15, 2025 - 05:08

As an American and as a Jew I regard the right to dissent as a patriotic duty.

America’s New Segregation

America’s New Segregation

NYT > Education, Aug 14, 2025 - 17:55

To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change.

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work a...

NYT > Education, Aug 13, 2025 - 20:52

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding t...

Trump Administration Plan to Oversee Smithsonian Exhibits Draws Criticism From Historians

Trump Administration Plan to Oversee Smithsonian Exhibi...

NYT > Education, Aug 13, 2025 - 18:04

The Trump administration’s plan to, in effect, audit the content of Smithsonian ...

How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape Student Life

How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape Student Life

NYT > Education, Aug 13, 2025 - 15:37

Austerity is coming to colleges boxed in by President Trump’s cuts and their own...

What A.I. Really Means for Learning

What A.I. Really Means for Learning

NYT > Education, Aug 13, 2025 - 11:11

A.I. is fueling a “poverty of imagination.” Here’s how we can fix it.

The Complexities of Portraying the Black Elite, From ‘The Gilded Age’ to Ralph Lauren

The Complexities of Portraying the Black Elite, From ‘T...

NYT > Education, Aug 13, 2025 - 05:19

Recent portrayals of the Black elite have shown the complexities that can come w...

High-Protein Lunch Recipes for Back-to-School

High-Protein Lunch Recipes for Back-to-School

NYT > Education, Aug 12, 2025 - 11:38

Make-ahead burritos, easy chickpea salad, baked chicken meatballs and more tasty...

4 Fitness Tests Trainers Swear By

4 Fitness Tests Trainers Swear By

NYT > Education, Aug 12, 2025 - 06:06

Starting a new workout routine? Just curious where you stand? Use these exercise...

A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How ...

NYT > Education, Aug 12, 2025 - 06:06

What bots are really doing in the classroom.

I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down

I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurr...

NYT > Education, Aug 11, 2025 - 05:41

When Helene disconnected my part of North Carolina for weeks, my neighbors and I...

Why Mamdani Might Be Willing to Have Less Power Over Schools

Why Mamdani Might Be Willing to Have Less Power Over Sc...

NYT > Education, Aug 11, 2025 - 05:41

Zohran Mamdani wants to retain the power to name the schools chancellor but woul...

Bard Music Festival: An Innovator in Exile

Bard Music Festival: An Innovator in Exile

NYT > Education, Aug 10, 2025 - 15:26

Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and scientific ex...

Trump Officials Press Case Against Harvard, and Add New Investigation

Trump Officials Press Case Against Harvard, and Add New...

NYT > Education, Aug 10, 2025 - 15:26

The administration doubled down against Harvard, asserting that rising violent c...

Michelle Obama and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Draw Crowds on Martha’s Vineyard

Michelle Obama and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Draw C...

NYT > Education, Aug 10, 2025 - 11:35

In Oak Bluffs, film premieres, book fairs and star-studded soirees attracted fan...

Thinking a Lot About Too Little Thinking

Thinking a Lot About Too Little Thinking

NYT > Education, Aug 10, 2025 - 09:30

Readers respond to a guest essay about illiteracy. Also: The autocrat’s playbook.

Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age

Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I...

NYT > Education, Aug 10, 2025 - 05:30

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding t...

What Is Mamdani’s Vision for New York City’s $40 Billion School System?

What Is Mamdani’s Vision for New York City’s $40 Billio...

NYT > Education, Aug 8, 2025 - 03:04

Zohran Mamdani has not released a detailed plan for public education, but his bi...

Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge

Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicant...

NYT > Education, Aug 7, 2025 - 07:27

The public release of data on test scores and race could wind up making wealth e...

SUNY Downstate Hospital Official Sentenced for Stealing $1.4 Million

SUNY Downstate Hospital Official Sentenced for Stealing...

NYT > Education, Aug 6, 2025 - 20:03

Dr. Michael Lucchesi, the former chairman of emergency medicine, used hospital f...

These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

NYT > Education, Aug 6, 2025 - 16:06

Technology is making the old ways of teaching ineffective. A new way is starting...

Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data in Trump Deal

Columbia and Brown to Disclose Admissions and Race Data...

NYT > Education, Aug 6, 2025 - 14:35

A widely overlooked part of a settlement with the two universities could profoun...

Stanford Newspaper Challenges Legal Basis for Student Deportations

Stanford Newspaper Challenges Legal Basis for Student D...

NYT > Education, Aug 6, 2025 - 11:45

A new lawsuit brought by a First Amendment watchdog group argues that the use of...

Reimagining the Humanities to Make Them A.I.-Proof

Reimagining the Humanities to Make Them A.I.-Proof

NYT > Education, Aug 6, 2025 - 09:50

Technology is making the old ways of teaching ineffective. A new way is starting...

A Diner Gets a Second Life in Front of the Camera

A Diner Gets a Second Life in Front of the Camera

NYT > Education, Aug 6, 2025 - 07:08

The former restaurant in Williamsburg will be moved to a studio for film and TV ...

Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After Ending Old Grants

Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After End...

NYT > Education, Aug 5, 2025 - 18:34

The $34.8 million allocated by the National Endowment for the Humanities leans t...

Universities Have Woken Up to Find They’re in Bed With an Ogre

Universities Have Woken Up to Find They’re in Bed With ...

NYT > Education, Aug 5, 2025 - 18:34

Three Opinion writers debate whether universities should make a deal with the ad...

A Public School Enrollment Crisis, and a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon

A Public School Enrollment Crisis, and a Nuclear Reacto...

NYT > Education, Aug 5, 2025 - 08:39

Plus, remembering “the Willy Wonka of cheese.”

Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?

Is There a Smart Way to Cede Power to Donald Trump?

NYT > Education, Aug 5, 2025 - 05:42

Three Opinion writers debate whether universities should make a deal with the ad...

Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs

Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20...

NYT > Education, Aug 4, 2025 - 05:08

Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to...

Books for Kids Starting Preschool

Books for Kids Starting Preschool

NYT > Education, Aug 4, 2025 - 05:08

These back-to-school reads will help children tackle first-day nerves, new teach...

Community Colleges Have Been Hit by Trump’s War on Elite Universities

Community Colleges Have Been Hit by Trump’s War on Elit...

NYT > Education, Aug 4, 2025 - 05:08

Measures intended to punish elite universities are inflicting collateral damage ...

A Tie-Dye Version of Jerry Garcia’s Legacy?

A Tie-Dye Version of Jerry Garcia’s Legacy?

NYT > Education, Aug 3, 2025 - 10:01

Readers differ on the meaning of Jerry Garcia’s politics. Also: Where students d...

How Campus Reform, a Tiny Conservative News Outlet, Pioneered the Attack on Colleges

How Campus Reform, a Tiny Conservative News Outlet, Pio...

NYT > Education, Aug 3, 2025 - 05:31

Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on coll...

A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values

A.I. Is Shedding Enlightenment Values

NYT > Education, Aug 2, 2025 - 14:39

A historian sees the dangerous parallels between artificial intelligence and the...

A.I. Is Not a 21st-Century Enlightenment

A.I. Is Not a 21st-Century Enlightenment

NYT > Education, Aug 2, 2025 - 07:30

A historian sees the dangerous parallels between artificial intelligence and the...

The Future of Liberal Arts Education

The Future of Liberal Arts Education

NYT > Education, Aug 2, 2025 - 07:30

Readers respond to a guest essay by Jennifer Frey about the University of Tulsa’...

Releasing My Son From the Shackles of Constant Closeness

Releasing My Son From the Shackles of Constant Closeness

NYT > Education, Aug 2, 2025 - 07:30

When I constantly check in with my teenage son, am I really trying to protect hi...

Massachusetts Governor Proposes $400 Million for Colleges, Citing Federal ‘Uncertainty’

Massachusetts Governor Proposes $400 Million for Colleg...

NYT > Education, Aug 1, 2025 - 19:19

The plan would help support research projects and jobs connected with colleges a...

Justice Department Scrutinizes George Mason Faculty’s Diversity Stance

Justice Department Scrutinizes George Mason Faculty’s D...

NYT > Education, Aug 1, 2025 - 18:03

The Faculty Senate at George Mason University in Virginia adopted a resolution s...

It’s Time for That Often-Dreaded Task: Buying Back-to-School Supplies

It’s Time for That Often-Dreaded Task: Buying Back-to-S...

NYT > Education, Aug 1, 2025 - 10:37

Parents of children in kindergarten through high school are spending an average ...