It hadn’t occurred to Ryan that going to college could endanger his parents’ safety, until he was halfway through filling out the financial aid form. He sat in his room …
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There’s a growing backlash to educational technology in the classroom, as I described in my story co-published with The New York Times in March. To dig deeper into the topic, …
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Education
Confusing financial aid offers can leave families deeper in debt. Student groups say a new fix doesn’t go far enough
It happens every spring: Families receive financial aid offers from colleges, puzzle over them and are still left with the question — how much will this college actually cost me? …
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A teacher in Wisconsin recently got a call with an intriguing offer: a promise to have 80 percent of her federal student loans forgiven — for a fee. The teacher, …
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If you have student loan debt, you might receive calls or see targeted social media ads promising to help reduce, or even eliminate, your balance — for a fee. The …
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OPINION: The standards-driven pressure cooker of public education is the real crisis we must address
Over the last several years, much has been written about the surge in mental health problems among American youth, reinforced by the 2021 public advisory from the U.S. surgeon general …
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As schools introduce artificial intelligence into the classroom, a new analysis suggests that these tools could be steering students in different directions depending on who they are. Researchers from Stanford …
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Education
Kids and parents dislike math homework, so teachers are scrapping it. Will students be better off?
A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: There would be no more homework. None of the 2,500 …
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Why is caring for the planet considered ‘unmanly’? That’s a question Joseph Henderson, a lecturer at the University of Vermont, has been grappling with recently. There’s research suggesting that boys …
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TOLEDO, Ohio — William Werner’s first-grade class was squirming. Some of his students at McKinley STEAM Academy were still completing reading worksheets one morning last month while others who had …