Colleges want students to get a coronavirus vaccine. But they’re split on requiring the shots.
More than 500 colleges and universities plan to require vaccination for at least some students and employees. There is a stark red-blue divide: Most of the mandates are in states President Biden carried in 2020.
EducationThe meaning of a college literature class — during a pandemic and always
English departments are increasingly under pressure to justify their existence. But have the eternal lessons of great books ever mattered more?
EducationThe Class of 2020: Graduating into a pandemic
Today's high school seniors grew up in the shadow of 9/11 and lived through the Great Recession. Now they're graduating into a pandemic.
EducationFormer AU official who was president of an Indiana college is fired after being charged with alleged sex crimes
Thomas Minar spent about seven years in the District before leaving for Franklin College.
EducationReport: Wide disparities in how states/localities fund public schools. Here’s a state-by-state comparison.
EducationTextbooks are pricey. So students are getting creative.
As they return for spring semester, they’re doing what they can to avoid paying big bucks for books.
EducationTranscript of Trump announcement on school prayer: ‘There is a growing totalitarian impulse on the far left that seeks to … prohibit religious expression’
It’s worth reading.
EducationTrump administration moves to protect prayer in public schools and federal funds for religious organizations
The administration announced it is proposing rules in the Education Department and eight other federal agencies that would ease restrictions on religious groups that provide social services.
EducationDefrauded college students will no longer be taxed on their canceled loans
Guidance issued Wednesday by the Treasury Department alleviates the concern for a growing number of federal student loan borrowers who have received loan forgiveness because of the misconduct of their former schools.
EducationHouse votes to overturn Trump rule that makes loan forgiveness harder; Senate fight looms
The vote to scrap the Trump administration’s overhaul of a 1995 law that gives the Education Department authority to cancel the federal debt of students whose colleges misled them about graduation or job placement rates fell largely along party lines.
EducationMissouri bill: New parent board could toss any public library book it deems sexually inappropriate — and librarians could be jailed
Critics say the legislation amounts to book banning.
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