Education

Students have their own demands for school reopening

By Charlotte West, The Hechinger Report

Mental health support, better remote instruction and a focus on vulnerable students -- high schoolers are pressing legislatures and school boards to make their appeals heard.

Loughlin, Giannulli get prison time in college bribery plot

By Alanna Durkin Richer, Associated Press

“Full House” actor Lori Loughlin must serve two months in prison and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, must serve five months for paying half a million dollars in bribes to get their two daughters into the University of Southern…

3 ways to get kids to tune in and pay attention when schools go virtual

By Eric M. Anderman, Kui Xie, The Conversation

One big complication with K-12 distance learning is how hard it is to get children and teens to log in and do their schoolwork. But there are things teachers and families can do to help.

U.K. scraps exam grading system that enraged students, parents

By Jill Lawless, Taryn Siegel, Associated Press

The head of the country's exam regulator acknowledged Monday that the system had caused "real anguish and damaged public confidence."…

Virus clusters erupt at U.S. universities as semester begins

By Susan Montoya Bryan, Associated Press

From the dorms at North Carolina to the halls of Notre Dame, officials at universities around the U.S. scrambled on Monday to deal with new COVID-19 clusters at the start of the fall semester.

Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press

A Justice Department investigation finds that Yale University is illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law. Yale denies the allegation, calling it "meritless" and "hasty."…

Kellyanne Conway on school reopening and Kamala Harris

Many school districts across the country say they are not ready to bring students back for in-person learning due to the spread of COVID-19 in their communities. But President Trump continues to pressure them to reopen as normal, making the…

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Federal judge refuses to block campus sexual assault rules

By Carole Feldman, Collin Binkley, Associated Press

The suit argued that the rules, which narrow the definition of sexual harassment, would block schools from investigating certain sexual abuse complaints and discourage students from filing complaints.

WATCH: Trump, new adviser push in-school learning

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump is expected to hold a press briefing Wednesday on children returning to school safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

WATCH: Why this university scaled back its reopening plan

By Dan Sagalyn

Once UMass Amherst “started looking at all the logistics of how this would work,” chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy said, they realized it was going to be too risky and difficult if all the students who were expected to come showed up.