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Byline: Laura Meckler, Susan Svrluga When antiwar protests disrupted campuses nationwide last year, signs and chants demanded "Divest!" and "Cease-fire now!" This fall, much of the protest language has grown [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Andrew Jeong For most of the country, predictions that Election Day would morph into election week or election month did not come to pass. Then there's California, [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Voters in 11 states were electing governors Tuesday, with a tight race in New Hampshire and a wild contest in North Carolina where Democrats were favored to [...]

Byline: Susan Svrluga, Laura Meckler, Karla Marie Sanford NEW YORK - One year after Hamas militants orchestrated a violent attack in Israel, activists took to college campuses and city streets [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal, Laura Meckler A divided Supreme Court refused to require some states to enforce new rules on how schools should handle complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination, leaving [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Laura Meckler, Lori Rozsa WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Donald Trump honed his attacks on Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, in a speech at the [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler A federal court blocked the Education Department from enforcing new regulations aimed at protecting transgender students in schools, finding that opponents a sued to stop it are [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Michelle Boorstein Billions in taxpayer dollars are being used to pay tuition at religious schools throughout the country, as state voucher programs expand dramatically and the line [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests, hoping to [...]

Byline: Daniel Wu, Richard Morgan, Laura Meckler Fallout from nationwide pro-Palestinian protests continued Monday as Columbia University canceled its main commencement ceremony, Harvard threatened suspensions of demonstrators in an encampment [...]

Byline: Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Laura Meckler, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Justin Jouvenal An edgy calm held on many college campuses Friday after more than two weeks of chaotic protests, following police crackdowns on [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Richard Morgan NEW YORK - Columbia University ordered student protesters to leave their nearly two-week-old pro-Palestinian encampment by 2 p.m. Monday, warning those who do not will [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, Justin Jouvenal On Tuesday, parents in Michigan were sentenced to prison for what they did - and didnÇÖt do - before their sonÇÖs high school [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Susan Svrluga and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University marks the culmination of a conservative war on higher education, long fought [...]

Byline: Peter Jamison and Laura Meckler When Melanie Elsey stepped up to the lectern at the Ohio Statehouse in April, it looked like a triumphant season for home-schoolers. Lawmakers would [...]

Byline: Michelle Boorstein, Claire Healy, Marissa J. Lang, Gillian Brockell and Laura Meckler Thousands of people supporting Palestinian rights converged Saturday on Washington from around the country, demanding a cease-fire [...]

Byline: Peter Jamison, Laura Meckler, Prayag Gordy, Clara Ence Morse and Chris Alcantara Home schooling has become - by a wide margin - America's fastest-growing form of education, as families [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Peter Jamison In March 2020, an involuntary form of home schooling - remote learning - was thrust upon American families everywhere. Millions could not wait to [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Schools across the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast closed or dismissed students early this week as a heat wave pounded a swath of the country with scorching temperatures. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Rowan Johnson learned what it meant to be transgender not from a parent or a teacher, but from Jerry Springer. Home from school one day when they [...]

Byline: Marianna Sotomayor and Laura Meckler House Republicans passed a bill Thursday that would amend a landmark federal civil rights law to bar transgender athletes from participating in girls' and [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler TUSKEGEE, Ala. - Delicia Peoples stood at the door of her first-period math class, trying to inject some joy into the task before her. She forced one [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson For years, school-choice advocates toted up small victories in their drive to give parents taxpayer money to pay for private school. Now, Republican-led states [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Tara Bahrampour Hundreds of parents, students and school staff filled the cafeteria of Clarksburg High School in Montgomery County on Saturday morning to learn about the [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Jim Morrison Dozens of teachers and parents unleashed fury, fear and frustration on the Newport News school board Tuesday evening, saying systemic problems throughout the district [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Pranshu Verma Teachers and professors across the education system are in a near-panic as they confront a revolution in artificial intelligence that could allow for cheating [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Michael Brice-Saddler and Allison Klein As the first night of Hanukkah, known as the Festival of Lights, arrived Sunday, Jews across the region were also contending with [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pressing his education culture war, took the extraordinary step of endorsing school board candidates in nonpartisan races. Now the winners are beginning to [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Political conflict around schools, surging nationwide, is most common in politically diverse areas, far more than in places that are solidly liberal or conservative, new research finds. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Anne Branigin This week's election results called into question the power of culture war education politics, as a string of Republicans who leaned into the issue [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Student test scores declined across the country, particularly in math, and not one state saw an increase, according to the most comprehensive look at the impact of [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler WASHINGTON - Public schools suffered significant enrollment declines as the pandemic set in, but some districts bounced back and others didn't. New data suggests the difference can [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Administrators in Minnesota's Anoka-Hennepin School District were already looking for ways to support students' mental well-being before the pandemic, driven in part by a string of student [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson A Utah student group was called 'Black and Proud.' The principal had it renamed. A New Hampshire history teacher used to discuss current events [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Test scores are down, and violence is up. Parents are screaming at school boards, and children are crying on the couches of social workers. Anger is rising. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Dan Diamond The White House is promising to provide 10 million free coronavirus tests each month for schools, aiming to help keep classes in person at [...]

Byline: Hannah Natanson and Laura Meckler Nine days after the mass shooting at Michigan's Oxford High School, a disturbing message on social media shook a tiny Virginia town. A 15-year-old [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Timothy Bella In the aftermath of George Floyd's murder, many school districts turbocharged their focus on racial equity, examining their curriculum, hiring, discipline practices and more. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson WASHINGTON - After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler National test scores declined for the lowest-performing high school seniors in math and reading, and more than 6 in 10 seniors were not academically prepared for college, [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Roman Stubbs Coronavirus concerns meant the school year in Pittsburgh was beginning entirely remote, so the superintendent reasoned that a close contact sport like football, with [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Valerie Strauss Thousands of students and teachers have become sick with covid-19 since schools began opening last month, but so far, public health experts have found [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler;Valerie Strauss;Moriah Balingit Melissa Becker is living two versions of the nation's mass and involuntary move to online education. As a teacher in a rural corner of northwest [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler;Valerie Strauss Schools in a cascading wave of states prepared to close next week, interrupting the education of millions of students amid growing fears of the coronavirus pandemic. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler;Moriah Balingit The superintendent of the New Rochelle schools, just north of New York City, was clear: She was not closing schools just because there were cases of [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Education Department said Wednesday that it will investigate how school districts handle allegations of sexual assault, an initiative meant to address a rising number of complaints. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Valerie Strauss WASHINGTON - The Education Department is threatening to withhold federal grant money from a Middle East studies program, saying it advances an ideological agenda [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Scott Clement A majority of Americans remain opposed to busing children to racially integrate schools. But opposition is not as fierce as it once was, because [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - The number of children attending U.S. public schools with students of other races has nearly doubled over the past quarter [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Kate Rabinowitz The number of children attending U.S. public schools with students of other races has nearly doubled over the past quarter-century, a little-noticed surge that [...]