Education

Allowing teachers to carry guns in school will only put Black children in harm’s way

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They study next to one of Africa’s largest trash dumps. They’re planting bamboo to try to cope

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Experts fear ‘catastrophic’ college declines thanks to botched FAFSA rollout

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Colorado head coach Deion Sanders looks on during the first half of the team's spring NCAA college football game last month in Boulder, Colorado. (Photo: David Zalubowski/AP)

Deion Sanders, son respond to social media criticisms over how coach handled transfers at Colorado

Former player Xavier Smith said Coach Sanders “never even tried to get to know me” and claimed he “was destroying…
/ May 2, 2024
Demonstrators and students protesting the war in Vietnam are seen at the plaza in front of Columbia University's Low Memorial Library in New York on April 27, 1968. Policemen line the steps of the library, one of five buildings that protesters occupied during the sit-in. (Photo: John Duricka/AP, file)

How Columbia University’s complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today

NEW YORK (AP) — College students taking up space and making demands for change. University administrators facing pressure to get…
/ April 29, 2024

College students, inmates and a nun: A unique book club meets at one of the nation’s largest jails

A book club led by DePaul University students meet at Cook County Jail to discuss books that resonate with inmates.
/ April 28, 2024

College protesters seek amnesty to keep arrests and suspensions from trailing them

What started at Columbia University has turned into a nationwide showdown between students and administrators over protests and free speech.
/ April 28, 2024

Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say

Dazhon Darien is charged with theft, disrupting school activities, stalking and retaliating against a witness, court documents show.
/ April 27, 2024
William Strickland, a veteran civil rights activist and Black Power movement supporter, who worked with Malcolm X and other noted leaders in the '60s, is shown back in 2021. Strickland has died at age 87. (Photo: Screenshot/YouTube.com/Amherst Media)

William Strickland, a longtime civil rights activist, scholar and friend of Malcolm X, has died

Strickland was a noted civil rights activist and Black Power movement supporter who worked with prominent Black leaders in the…
/ April 23, 2024

Nigerian chess champion plays for 60 hours to set global record

Tunde Onakoya, 29, hopes to raise $1 million for children’s education across Africa through the record attempt that began on…
/ April 21, 2024