Education

Meet Sahli Negassi, a high school student in New Jersey who has accomplished an extraordinary academic feat.

Here is a look at some of the department’s key functions, and how Trump has said he might approach them.

Efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle the Education Department are underway. Here’s what it could mean for students.

It’s unclear to what degree the Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences will continue to exist after Musk’s team slashed scores of contracts.

The Department of Education took another step Tuesday in advancing the Trump administration’s new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports organization to restore titles, awards and records it says have been “misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories.”

During a staff-wide meeting Wednesday, leaders of the Department of Education told employees that the Trump administration’s resignation offer comes with major caveats.

A study conducted by researchers at Stony Brook University found teenagers spend an average of 90 minutes a day on their phones during school.

he Trump administration is opening new investigations into allegations of antisemitism at five U.S. universities including Columbia and the University of California, Berkeley, the Education Department announced Monday. It’s part of President Donald Trump’s promise to take a tougher stance against campus antisemitism and deal out harsher penalties than former President Joe Biden’s administration, which settled a flurry of cases with...

With the Trump administration looking for ways to close parts or all of the U.S. Department of Education, many of the country’s 42 million federal student loan borrowers are likely feeling on edge.

A letter to the affected employees obtained by NBC News said they would continue to receive their full salaries and benefits and would not be required to do any work-related tasks.

President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order Wednesday that would prioritize and free up federal funding to expand school choice programs.

New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Organizations that track the removal of books from schools and libraries are denouncing last week’s Department of Education announcement that calls bans a “hoax.”

Next week marks the Lunar New Year and parents are already flocking to Google with a simple question: Are NYC schools open? They will be closed on Wednesday, Jan. 29 in observance of the holiday and reopen on Thursday, Jan. 30. Lunar New Year celebrates the beginning of spring and the new year on the lunisolar calendar. It is a major…

At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in a new report Friday.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget plan includes a ban on cellphones in schools, and she promised the spending plan will put more money in New Yorkers’ pockets through inflation refund checks, an expanded child tax credit and middle class tax cuts. What’s missing? Funding for the MTA if President Trump follows through on his campaign promise to kill congestion pricing. And...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday as part of her budget address that she plans to introduce legislation to apply a bell-to-bell restriction on smartphone use in schools statewide. Many of the city’s more than 1,500 public schools already restrict cellphone use, but Hochul says a listening tour through New York’s educational system highlighted, to her, the need for additional...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will announce a plan on Tuesday to offer free tuition to state and city colleges for students pursuing associates degrees in certain high-demand fields. Hochul, a Democrat, is set to debut the proposal in a speech in Albany during which she will detail her agenda for the state’s ongoing legislative session. Her office said the program...

New filings in a 2022 class-action lawsuit contend that children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities.

Data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ latest survey shows the gap is growing between high-skilled and low-skilled readers in the U.S.