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Police still investigating motive of UNLV shooting; school officials cancel classes, finals
Three University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty members died this week and another was critically injured when a lone gunman walked onto campus and opened fire in the building housing the business school. The shooting stoked fear on the 30,000-student...
Kansas hires former Baylor and BYU assistant Jeff Grimes as offensive coordinator
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas hired former Baylor and BYU assistant Jeff Grimes to be its assistant head coach and offensive coordinator on Thursday. Grimes has twice been a finalist for the Broyles Award, given to college football's top assistant. H...
Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle
A Texas high school sent a Black student back to in-school suspension Tuesday for refusing to change his hairstyle, renewing a monthslong standoff over a dress code policy the teen's family calls discriminatory. The student, Darryl George, was suspen...
Kansas school forced 8-year-old Native American boy to cut his hair, ACLU says
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas grade school forced an 8-year-old Native American boy to cut off his hair after he grew it out for cultural reasons, the American Civil Liberties Union said. In a letter sent Friday, the ACLU demanded that the Girard S...
Oklahoma public schools show continued academic struggle in state report cards
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s public school system showed consistent levels of academic results but weakening growth in the 2022-23 school year compared to the year before. The Oklahoma State Report Card, released Wednesday, grades the success of every...
Columbia, Cornell and other colleges face US inquiries over alleged antisemitism and Islamophobia
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government has opened civil rights investigations into seven schools and universities over allegations of antisemitism or Islamophobia since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. The list includes three Ivy League i...
Clashes over Israel-Hamas war shatter students' sense of safety on US college campuses
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As a Jewish student, Eden Roth always has felt safe and welcome at Tulane University, where more than 40% of the students are Jewish. That has been tested by the aftermath of last month's Hamas incursion into Israel. Graffiti a...
Librarians turn to civil rights agency to oppose book bans and their firings
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — She refused to ban books, many of them about racism and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people. And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. "I'm kind of persona non grata around h...
Largest Christian university in US faces record fine after federal probe into alleged deception
WASHINGTON (AP) — The country's largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs. Grand Canyon University, which has more than 100,000...
In a first, MIT trains students to resolve clean energy conflicts
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Curbing climate change — and extreme weather for future generations — depends squarely on society's ability to rapidly build new clean energy infrastructure despite the messy puzzle of local, state and federal reviews proje...
Oklahoma attorney general sues to stop US's first public religious school
Oklahoma's Republican Attorney General Gentner Drummond on Friday sued to stop a state board from establishing and funding what would be the nation's first religious public charter school after the board ignored Drummond's warning that it would viola...
This engineering course has students use their brainwaves to create performing art
Francesco Fedele Georgia Institute of Technology (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Francesco Fedele, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) Uncommon Courses...
Few Americans say conservatives can speak freely on college campuses, an AP-NORC/UChicago poll shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans view college campuses as far friendlier to liberals than to conservatives when it comes to free speech, with adults across the political spectrum seeing less tolerance for those on the right, according to a new poll. O...
More schools are adopting 4-day weeks. For parents, the challenge is day 5
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 1...
Southern Baptists expel Oklahoma church after pastor defends his blackface and Native caricatures
The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another. The Executive Committee of the nation's largest Protestant...
Oklahoma schools head takes aim at Tulsa district. Critics say his motives are politically driven
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — In his first year as head of Oklahoma's public schools, State Superintendent Ryan Walters has taken on what he describes as "radical leftists" indoctrinating students. He has sought to ban certain books from school libraries a...
Five high school students, from all over the country, have been named National Student Poets
NEW YORK (AP) — Five high school students from Florida to Utah have been selected as this year's National Student Poets, a program founded more than a decade ago. Each winner represents a different region in the country, and brings their own d...
Going to college? Here's what you should know about student loans
NEW YORK (AP) — If you're heading to college or starting to think about where you'd like to apply, you're probably considering options for funding your education. If you need to borrow money to pursue your dreams, you are far from alone. According t...
Paper exams, chatbot bans: Colleges seek to 'ChatGPT-proof' assignments
When philosophy professor Darren Hick came across another case of cheating in his classroom at Furman University last semester, he posted an update to his followers on social media: "Aaaaand, I've caught my second ChatGPT plagiarist." Friends and col...
Oklahoma parents, faith leaders and education group sue to stop US's first public religious school
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of parents, faith leaders and a public education nonprofit sued Monday to stop Oklahoma from establishing and funding what would be the nation's first religious public charter school. The lawsuit filed in Oklahoma C...
Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist's hiring at campus unravels
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University on Friday announced the resignation of its president in the fallout over a Black journalist who said her celebrated hiring at one of the nation's largest campuses quickly unraveled due to pushback over her pa...
How new state laws and book ban movements have made the teaching of US history contentious – 5 essential reads
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Of all the subjects taught in America's public schools, few have become as contentious as U.S. history. At least 37...
Affirmative action is out in higher education. What comes next for college admissions?
Colleges across the country will be forced to stop considering race in admissions under Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, ending affirmative action policies that date back decades. Schools that have relied on race-conscious admissions policies to...
Walters' faith committee wants Ten Commandments in every public classroom
A committee examining prayer in schools asked the state Board of Education to require every classroom to display a poster of the Ten Commandments and require students to take a course on Western civilization for graduation. State Superintendent of... Full story
Big bonuses, bigger risks: Oklahoma's new teacher bonus program raises concern
Signing bonuses of as much as $50,000 are what Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said is needed to attract new and retired teachers to the classroom. That’s also what makes his new bonus plan a risky policy. Schools reported more t...
