A state audit of Texas Southern University in Houston found significant financial weaknesses.
College football Hall of Famer Urban Meyer has been appointed to the board of trustees at New College in Sarasota.
Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.
Houston students got a front-row seat to the future of space exploration this week, and the chance to show off designs inspired by it.
Brown University has placed its campus police chief on leave as it reviews security policies following a tragic shooting.
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University.
Officials say a man who is suspected in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility.
An autopsy has found that the man suspected in last weekend’s attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when found.
Newly-released state data tracked the long-term outcomes of public school students who enrolled a decade ago.
Texas has long failed to get most of its students the higher education credentials the workforce increasingly demands. But recent laws that reward schools for helping students succeed later in life could help the state make up lost ground, experts say. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board regularly tracks if students enrolled in eighth grade […]
Security footage released by the FBI shows a route taken by a person police are seeking in connection with the Brown University shooting.
A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico.
When a measles outbreak hit West Texas this year, school absences surged far beyond the number of children who likely became sick.
Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing the area the week before the attack.
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation.
Authorities have released a new video timeline and a slightly clearer image of the man suspected in the Brown University shooting.
An aspiring neurosurgeon at Brown University and a leader of a campus Republicans group were in a study group preparing for an economics final, with the end of the semester in sight.
With the Brown University shooter still on the loose, police fanned out to Providence schools to reassure parents, kids and teachers as investigators push for new evidence that might help them crack the case.
Authorities are again searching for the person seen in grainy video walking away from the Brown University shooting that killed two students and injured nine.
Brown University junior Mia Tretta experienced a tragic sense of déjà vu when emergency alerts warned of a shooting on campus.
Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren.
Since pandemic-fueled anti-Asian hate surged in 2020, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advocates have mobilized to make AAPI history mandatory learning.
A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”.
Goodwill Houston is celebrating a major milestone with the grand opening of its brand-new Gessner Education and Training Center, a space designed to change lives through opportunity, education, and hands-on workforce development.
President Donald Trump’s push for the largest mass deportation in history has had an outsized impact on the child care field, which is heavily reliant on immigrants and already strained by a worker shortage.
The Houston Independent School District (HISD) has opened its annual school choice application for families looking to explore hundreds of neighborhood and specialty schools and select the best one that fits their children’s needs.
The author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott revealed $7.1 billion in donations to nonprofits in 2025 Tuesday, marking a significant increase in her annual giving from recent years.
A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration.
A federal proposal to sharply limit how much graduate nursing students can borrow is raising alarm among students, educators and nursing groups say the change could worsen an already critical nursing shortage.
A University of Oklahoma instructor has been placed on leave after a student complained about receiving a failing grade on a paper.
A graduate student instructor at the University of Oklahoma was placed on administrative leave after a student claimed she was religiously discriminated against for receiving a “zero” on an assignment.
A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence technologies might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.
On Monday evening, the Fort Bend Independent School District Board, the district’s superintendent and other members of the executive leadership team met in a “Special Called Meeting” tied to the potential rezoning of the district.
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding.
Norfolk Southern railroad worked with the state of Ohio and Youngstown State University to revive plans for a $20 million first responder training center near the site of the worst derailment in a decade in East Palestine, Ohio.
The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and subsidized loans to students who aren't legally in the United States.
Students preparing to study abroad often have long checklists, but the experience of learning and living in another country can be challenging in unexpected ways.
A new Texas law says every public school classroom must display a poster listing the Ten Commandments.
Nigeria’s president has postponed his trip to this weekend’s Group of 20 summit after promising to intensify efforts to rescue 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by gunmen earlier this week in a northwestern region of the country.
The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department.
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.
The Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees will meet for its monthly board meeting Monday evening.
Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
Houston Independent School District will host its first School Choice Fair of the school year, giving families a chance to explore neighborhood, magnet and specialty school options ahead of the district’s application window.
Police in Oakland, California, say Laney College football coach John Beam, known from Netflix's “Last Chance U,” has died after being shot on campus.
The Fort Bend Independent School District is preparing to redraw its school boundaries, a move that could shift students to different schools and potentially impact property values in the area.
Rick George, the athletic director at Colorado who hired football coach Deion Sanders, is stepping away from his role at the end of the academic year.
A Richmond mother says her 9-year-old son walked into class looking for help and walked out in tears.
China has a new visa scheme that is creating job opportunities for foreign professionals, part of its effort to attract global talent and gain an edge in global technology.
Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school.
A top executive at a startup company that helped college students apply for financial aid has been sentenced to over five years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase in a $175 million buyout four years ago.
Witnesses say a Chicago day care employee was detained at work during a drop-off time for children, reflecting the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics.
In the New Jersey township of Montclair, a group bicycle ride to school has become a weekly community ritual.
Authorities have arrested two Massachusetts men on charges accusing them of setting off fireworks inside an empty Harvard Medical School building last weekend.
Authorities say they've arrested two Massachusetts men in connection with a weekend explosion at Harvard Medical School.
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.
The recent escape of several research monkeys after the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi interstate is the latest glimpse into the secretive world of animal research.
The Trump administration is forging ahead with plans to eject some nonprofits from a popular student loan forgiveness program if their work is deemed to have an “illegal purpose."
Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar instead of his predecessor, Julius Caesar.
Trial has begun in a $40 million lawsuit accusing a former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school of ignoring multiple warnings that a 6-year-old student had a gun hours before he shot his teacher.
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A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration must release millions in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools.
Fort Bend Independent School District is facing criticism from a mother who says the district delayed action after her first-grade son was allegedly sexually assaulted by fellow students at Rosa Parks Elementary School.
In honor of Medical Assistants Recognition Day, Houston Life visited Fortis College Houston South to meet the students and instructors behind a program that’s shaping Houston’s future healthcare heroes.
An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.
The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.
The Trump administration has agreed to resume student loan forgiveness for an estimated 2.5 million borrowers who are enrolled in certain in certain federal repayment plans following a lawsuit from the American Federation of Teachers.
Mahmoud Khalil appeared in a federal appeals court in Philadelphia as he battles a deportation case linked to his pro-Palestinian activism at Columbia University.
Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown.
A man who sent a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” to a woman he admits sexually assaulting in college has been sentenced to two to four years in prison.
Tension between Indiana University and its student newspaper flared this week with the elimination of the outlet’s print editions and the firing of a faculty adviser, who refused an order to keep news stories out of a homecoming edition.
Five remaining universities have been weighing an offer from President Donald Trump to sign a “compact” for higher education.
Five remaining universities have been weighing an offer from President Donald Trump to sign a “compact” for higher education.
Leslie Cornfeld launched the National Education Opportunity Network, or NEON, to address educational inequality.
The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.