Students

Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.

We need to build a broad moral consensus around the universal right to dissent, rooted in widely held beliefs about American liberty.

Activists with Students for Justice in Palestine have mobilized major campus demonstrations in support of Gaza—and provided an intellectual framework for protesters watching what’s happening in the Middle East.

Families are more anxious than ever to find out what happens in school. But there may be value in a measure of not-knowing and not-telling.

The artist on art as a family affair and what he hopes to teach young artists.

Eren Orbey talks about inequality in college admissions, and what it’s like to take the new digital SAT. 

Mr. Forry’s driver’s-ed class, in Pennsylvania, is training eighteen-year-olds to drive eighteen-wheelers as Congress lowers the minimum age for driving a big rig across state lines, in an attempt to ease the country’s logistical woes.

How had the country experienced so much social, economic, and educational change while its politics remained stagnant?

Tens of thousands saw the country as a gateway to a better life. Will Europe let them stay?

Mackenzie Fierceton was championed as a former foster youth who had overcome an abusive childhood and won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Then the University of Pennsylvania accused her of lying.

A book and a documentary examine how Asian Americans internalize the myth of the model minority.

After the legendarily competitive Lowell High School dropped selective admissions, new challenges—and new opportunities—arose.

“Psst! Hey, kids.”

“My homework is stuck on a boat because of international-supply-chain-related port delays.”

My students from the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.

New standardized tests, staff shortages, and unresolved trauma have placed teachers and students under extraordinary pressure.

Whenever a major reform is announced from within the admissions world, it’s a good idea to ask yourself what new powers the admissions department has given itself.

Gen. John W. Raymond discusses being memeified, Steve Carell, and how his military branch plans to keep your smartphone from being turned into a stupid phone.

At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.

Students at Michele Clark High were relieved to return to classes, but shootings on the West Side mean that their problems are far from over.