Girls are falling in love with wrestling, the nation's fastest-growing high school sport
Girlsโ wrestling has become the fastest-growing high school sport in the country, sanctioned by a surging number of states and bolstered by a movement of medal-winning female wrestlers, parents and the male-dominated ranks of coaches and administrators who saw it as a necessity and a matter of equality.
Pencils down: SATs are going all digital, and students have mixed reviews of the new format
As SAT season kicks off this weekend, students across the U.S. for the first time will take it with computers and tablets โ and not the pencils theyโve used since the college admissions test was introduced nearly a century ago.
New study examines barriers faced by Houston minority-led arts organizations
Last year, the BIPOC Arts Network and Fund, or BANF, launched an initiative to explore barriers in arts education in Houston. Specifically, the problems Black, Indigenous, and People of Color non-profit leaders face when it comes to educating students on the arts. Armando Silva, executive director of MECA, Charity Carter, executive director of the Edison Arts Foundation, and Amina Clarke-Walker who is a first grader in the arts joined Tessa about the Arts Education Landscape Exploration Project.
Liberty University will pay $14 million, the largest fine ever levied under the federal Clery Act
The U.S. Department of Education says Liberty University has agreed to pay an unprecedented $14 million fine after the large Christian school in Virginia failed to disclose information about crimes on campus.
Michael Bloomberg tops the Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of Americaโs biggest donors in 2023
Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, gave the most to charitable causes last year, followed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, and Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropyโs exclusive list of the 50 Americans who donated the largest sums to nonprofits last year.
$1B donation makes New York medical school tuition free and transforms students' lives
Students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine say they can give up their part-time jobs, focus on their studies and reconsider the kind of medicine they hope to practice thanks to a generous donation to their New York school.
My Magical Rodeo Garden: Fourth grade authors honored for their creative essays and poems
These impressive literary works were just some of the entries submitted as part of the 2024 SPURS Writing Competition hosted by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and Rodeo Trailblazer Committee. This was the fourth year of the competition.
Florida refuses to bar unvaccinated students from school suffering a measles outbreak
Floridaโs controversial surgeon general is drawing criticism for his handling of an elementary schoolโs measles outbreak, telling parents of unvaccinated children it is their choice whether their student attends class.
Video shows Oklahoma nonbinary teen after attack in school bathroom, the day before their death
A police video shows that a 16-year-old Oklahoma student who died the day after a fight in a high school bathroom was conscious and alert when telling police about the attack by three girls that occurred after the teen squirted them with water.
Tribal bloodshed shines spotlight on instability in strategically vital Papua New Guinea
A tribal clash in Papua New Guineaโs remote highlands in which at least 26 people were killed has put a growing internal security problem under the microscope in the strategically vital South Pacific island nation that has garnered closer military attention from the United States and China.
Students and parents are frustrated by delays in hearing about federal financial aid for college
For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether theyโll get the financial aid they need to attend.
Texas ban on university diversity efforts provides a glimpse of the future across GOP-led states
As Texas public university students returned to the classroom in January, a new law in Texas banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from state funded higher education institutions took effect.
Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting diversity efforts on campus and elsewhere
Diversity initiatives would be defunded or banned from universities and other public institutions under a slate of bills pending in Republican-led legislatures, with some lawmakers counting on the issue resonating with voters in this election year.
Finding meaning in George Floydโs death through protest art left at his murder site
For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize the man whose death reignited a movement against systemic racism.
New Mexico legislators seek endowment to bolster autonomous tribal education programs
New Mexico legislators want to create a unique educational endowment of at least $50 million to help Native American communities create their own student programs, including efforts to teach and preserve Indigenous languages.
UN experts take Russia to task over deported Ukrainian children and a 'military agenda' in schools
A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on childrenโs human rights is calling on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the governmentโs โpolitical and military agendaโ including in Ukraine.
LA Opera scraps planned world premiere of Mason Bates' 'Kavalier and Clay' adaptation over finances
The Los Angeles Opera scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Batesโ โThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clayโ this fall because of finances, and the work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana Universityโs Jacobs School of Music.