
Media literacy helps students think critically about the news
Some states have implemented laws requiring news literacy classes in schools. How are teachers are bringing those lessons to the classroom?
Some states have implemented laws requiring news literacy classes in schools. How are teachers are bringing those lessons to the classroom?
Earlier this month, Florida's education department rejected AP African-American Studies in a letter to the College Board, which oversees AP classes.
| Jada Williams
Florida's Department of Education has decided to block the state's schools from participating in the AP's African American Studies pilot program.
| Alexa Liacko
A graveyard in Florida is nearly all that's left of Dozier School for Boys, where students endured mental, physical and sexual abuse.
Parents and community members were walked through the latest design of the rebuild after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School last year.
In the past, the only real option for 529 funds that weren't used for a secondary education program was to roll the money over to another beneficiary.
Police learned through their investigation that a school employee was notified of a possible gun at Richneck Elementary before the Jan. 6 shooting.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
Police determined the handgun the 6-year-old suspect allegedly used was in the residence where he lived and legally purchased by the suspect's mother.
| Scripps News Staff and Leondra Head
Scores have typically been used as key factors not only in college admissions, but scholarship opportunities, too. But COVID shutdowns made it harder.
| Emily Grossberg
A 28-year-old criminal justice doctoral student has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and felony burglary in the Nov. 13 attack.
| AP
Rick Singer pleaded guilty nearly four years ago to paying off people to help get students of wealthy parents into elite schools.
| AP
Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon told a racist joke during graduation, and he's staying put despite more calls for his removal.
In a graduation speech, Purdue University Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon seemed to "make up" a language mocking Asian Americans.
A few years after common core was introduced, a survey found roughly four in 10 elementary school teachers were no longer teaching cursive.
| Emily Grossberg and Amber Strong
Black Lives Matter hopes a $500,000 fund will offer some assured relief to current or former students waiting for loan forgiveness.
College enrollment is on the decline as students weigh a number of factors forcing them to reconsider higher education.
The court's decision to hear arguments relatively quickly means it is likely to determine whether the widespread loan cancellations are legal by June.
| AP and Nick Harper
Laws allowing kids to take mental health days vary by state. Some require a doctor's note, and others limit the number of mental health days allotted.
| Tricia Goss and Simplemost
Education experts say false threats of school violence are happening more and more across the country.
The moratorium was slated to expire Jan. 1, a date that Biden set before his debt cancellation plan first stalled.
| AP
Three UVA football players were fatally shot by a former member of the team on Nov. 13, after a field trip to see a play in Washington.
| AP
The medical examiner's office said gunshot wounds to the head were responsible for the deaths of three University of Virginia football players.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
President Biden said student loan payments would resume in January. But that was before two courts blocked his executive order that forgives $20K.
| Scripps News Staff
The Moscow Police Department said in a release Tuesday that investigators were trying to establish a timeline to recreate the victims’ activities.
| AP
Police have labeled the deaths as homicides but say there is not an active risk to the community.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
The school's president said three people were killed and two others wounded. He identified the suspect as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
Fort Worth District Court Judge Mark Pittman said President Biden's student loan forgiveness program usurped Congress' power to make laws.
| AP and Haley Bull
Hot-button issues have made local education decisions part of the national political discussion.
More college campuses are introducing recovery groups and programs to help fight the stigma of sober living while in university.
Students in the U.S. have been reciting the pledge of allegiance for decades, but why?
The Supreme Court's hearing went longer than scheduled, with justices hearing about five hours of arguments.
The Supreme Court has twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 19 years, including just six years ago.
| AP and Haley Bull
The EPA says the new, mostly electric school buses will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and better protect children's health.
| AP
The expense of college with the cost of living is pushing some students into homelessness.