A year after the shooting at a Nashville private school, more money for security has been the only response from state lawmakers.
The NASA-backed Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project puts students in charge of a bold scientific endeavor to study the April 8 total solar eclipse.
https://npr.org/2024/03/25/1240017029/solar-eclipse-nasa-students-research-balloons-science
Indianapolis is one of several U.S. cities in the path of totality. For many students there, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness – and be inspired by – a total solar eclipse.
https://npr.org/2024/03/25/1239947338/solar-eclipse-schools-teachers-students
Students may have to wait even longer for their financial aid award letters due to an Education Department error
https://npr.org/2024/03/24/1240371076/ed-department-error-may-delay-student-financial-aid-further
Nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren have been released, more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school in the northwestern state of Kaduna and marched into the fore...
A new Indiana law requires professors to promote "intellectual diversity" to receive tenure. Critics worry the measure will dissuade academics from staying in the state.
Indiana's Republican governor signed a bill that critics say will undermine tenure programs at universities. The law means a professor could lose tenure if they don't promote "intellectual divers...
Because of past administrative failures, the some 78,000 affected public service workers such as nurses and teachers never got the relief they were entitled to under the law, Biden said.
https://npr.org/2024/03/21/1239931447/biden-student-loan-public-service-debt-forgiveness
Colleges are just beginning to receive long-overdue FAFSA data. Meanwhile, students who've been accepted to college still face weeks before they receive aid offers.
https://npr.org/2024/03/21/1239730134/fafsa-delays-continue-students-wait-for-college-financial-aid
One of the nation's best-known media literacy events for high school students is expanding as demand grows for skills to identify deepfake images and online conspiracy theories.