Education

High turnover, low funding, and the pandemic have hampered the city’s only public high school. But the narrative is changing.

There’s still so much we can do to protect each other.

A new memorial to the historically significant abolitionist was set to be installed at the Sojourner Truth Library this fall. Why is it receiving pushback from faculty?

Tensions over masks and vaccines have complicated the return of in-person learning.

Parents and teachers are frustrated with the Kingston school district’s response to COVID-19, and its track record on community involvement and equity.

A new study of young adults reveals troubling misbeliefs and knowledge gaps, at a time of rising antisemitism and white nationalism.

We all came together around shared experiences early on, but the reality of remote learning—and the isolation, technical difficulties, and frustrations it brings—has made high school much harder.

The TIAA Divest campaign builds momentum for pulling funding from polluters and reinvesting in renewable energy companies.

The pandemic forced parents to juggle work schedules and take on educational roles they could have never imagined. Now they’ll have to do it again.

Generation Z, which includes the class of 2020, was already the most stressed out generation in America. And that was before the pandemic.

Shuttered schools pose learning challenges for most families. But parents of children with developmental disabilities fear a critical loss of educational and social skills.

Social pressures cause many immigrants to stop speaking their first language, losing an aspect of cultural identity in the process. Some families are trying to keep those ties alive.

A decade after Common Core was implemented, sobering new results indicate that students aren’t faring better.

School lunch debt is on the rise, and rural districts have it especially hard. But one program offers universal free cafeteria meals in low-income schools. Can it work here?

From commerce and culture to social connection, almost no segment of contemporary life is untouched by the internet. In many rural communities, limited broadband access remains a barrier to 21st-century connectivity.

What should sex ed look like in the era of #MeToo?

Recent measles outbreaks put Hudson Valley schools at the center of a vitriolic legal and public health debate.

The problem of shrinking student enrollment ticks silently away until it becomes too urgent to ignore. Then it erupts into community outrage about tough decisions.

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