As Covid-19 Surges, Colleges Make Last-Minute Changes to Spring Calendars
Colleges and universities continue to scramble their spring-term plans as coronavirus cases remain high, seeking to avoid a postholiday surge and increase opportunities for staff to get vaccinated.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationTeachers Vie for Covid-19 Vaccine Priority
School staff are a portion of the 87 million essential workers including grocers, farmworkers and firefighters—who may be next in line for the vaccine.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationLessons From Fall Reopenings Change Colleges’ Future Plans
With the fall semester winding down, there is a growing sense that next semester will be different, with schools taking advantage of lessons learned from the pandemic’s first nine months.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationWhich Schools Leave Parents With the Most College Loan Debt?
Poor and middle-income parents at hundreds of colleges have taken on substantial debt—amounts sometimes more than twice their annual income —to help their children through school, new federal figures show.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationNYC Students Voice Concerns Over Low Diversity in Selective Schools
Students at an elite New York City public high school are working to make it more welcoming to minorities while a citywide student group presses Mayor Bill de Blasio to remove obstacles to admitting more such pupils.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationBiden Plans to Roll Back Trump-Era Education Policies
The president-elect has vowed to bring sweeping changes to education and to reverse some of the civil rights-related moves made under President Trump.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationAs Covid Cases Surged, a School District Reopened. Here’s What Came Next.
Michigan’s Walled Lake Consolidated School District is one of many grappling with whether to keep in-person instruction going or transition back to completely remote classes, as coronavirus cases reach record levels.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationTumbling Community-College Enrollment Highlights Pandemic’s Broad Impact
Enrollment tumbled this fall at community colleges around the country, flipping a longstanding trend in which people flock to school when the economy weakens and raising concerns about the schools’ financial outlook.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationTest Scores Drop in Math Since the Pandemic
U.S. children started school this fall significantly behind expectations in math, and modestly behind in some grades in reading, according to one of the first reports on widely used tests since the pandemic shut schools in March.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationNew International Student Enrollment Plunges 43% This Fall
The number of new international students at U.S. campuses plummeted by 43% this fall, according to an early snapshot that illustrates just how hard colleges and universities were hit by the pandemic and a flurry of confusing directives from the Trump administration.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationAs Covid-19 Cases Surge, Schools Ponder Closing
Districts nationwide are split on their closing plans as community infection rates vary and transmission in many locations has been relatively contained.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationSchools Struggling to Stay Open Get Hit by Ransomware Attacks
Districts around the U.S. are fighting a wave of increasingly aggressive hackers, who are publicly posting sensitive student information to get schools to pay up. The data can aid identity theft or be highly embarrassing for vulnerable young people.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationHarvard Didn’t Violate Federal Civil-Rights Law, Appellate Court Rules
The decision is teeing the case up for potential review by the Supreme Court, and is a blow to Students for Fair Admissions, a group that sued the school in 2014, alleging it discriminated against Asian-American applicants.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationM.B.A. Applications Are Up Because Job Market Is Down
Applications to American M.B.A. programs increased 21% in the latest admissions cycle, thanks in part to loosened admissions deadlines and students seeking places to ride out a shaky job market.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationCollege-Admissions Season Was Already Stressful. The Pandemic Made It Chaotic.
As early-admission deadlines near, fewer students have applied to colleges or filled out federal financial-aid forms compared with a year ago, and universities say they are struggling to predict who might enroll.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationLatest Trial Over College Affirmative Action to Begin
UNC Chapel Hill will defend its consideration of race in undergraduate admissions against a suit by a group backed by a conservative activist that alleges the school gives too much preference to Black and Hispanic applicants.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationCalifornia Campaign to Revive Affirmative Action Is Struggling
Black and Latino students are underrepresented at public universities in the state, but polls show voters are wary of undoing 1996’s Prop 209 to address the issue.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationCalifornia Community Colleges Get $100 Million Gift for Financial Aid
The foundation of Hyatt Hotels founder Jay Pritzker is pledging the largest community-college gift to date, with the money to be used for scholarships and emergency financial aid for students near the end of their programs.
The Wall Street Journal: EducationColleges Require Flu Shots of Students, Employees
Some schools this year are making the flu shot a requirement for enrollment and mandating penalties for failure to comply.
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