SECTIONSSKIP TO CONTENTSKIP TO NAVIGATION The New York Times SEARCH SETTINGS Advertisement Education Highlights Photo CREDITSHERYL GAY STOLBERG/THE NEW YORK TIMES State of Emergency Declared in Charlottesville After Protests Turn Violent Protests of a plan to remove a statue of a Confederate general led to clashes that left several injured. CAMPUS DISRUPTED Photo CREDITELIJAH NOUVELAGE/GETTY IMAGES Behind Berkeley’s Semester of Hate When far left meets far right, sparks fly. Students from both sides discuss their political journeys. POP QUIZ Photo CREDITTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ‘Hamilton’ Hip-Hop, by Students An American history curriculum lets young people write the narrative. Fill in the rap. Photo CREDITMARK E. TRENT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track Nearly two in five high school students now take vocational classes, including simulated workplaces designed to prepare them for good-paying jobs. Photo CREDITTIMOTHY IVY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly At Ole Miss, where even an architect of disenfranchisement still has his name on a building, the process of addressing the past is more sensitive than at most universities. Photo CREDITLAURA SEGALL FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Affirmative Action Policies Evolve, Achieving Their Own Diversity The practice in college admissions has evolved from race-based quotas of decades ago into a range of approaches that only occasionally produce the desired results. Photo CREDITSTACIA JENKINS What ‘Back to School’ Looks Like to Our Readers We asked readers to send us pictures that represented their experiences with this time of transition. Here are some responses. Photo CREDITHEATHER AINSWORTH FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Developmentally Disabled, and Going to College Work-readiness programs for the intellectually challenged aim to prepare students for a dream job. Less than half will find one. 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Photo CREDITWILL GLASER/THE NEW YORK TIMES U.S. to Help Remove Debt Burden for Students Defrauded by For-Profit Chain The settlement could affect more than 36,000 students, many of whom are low-income, immigrant women. Photo CREDITROGER KISBY FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES At Walmart Academy, Training Better Managers. But With a Better Future? A new program for store supervisors and department managers may make them better employees but may not help them reach the middle class. Education Life Photo CREDIT A Few Telling Freshman Trends Heading to campus for the first time? Check out these results from the U.C.L.A. survey of 2016-17 first-year students. Photo CREDIT More Diversity Means More Demands Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant. Photo CREDIT Liberal Lessons in Taking Back America Political organizing is tedious. Change comes with dogged, on-the-ground work, not a list of demands, according to Harvard Resistance School. Photo CREDIT Listening In on Portland State Activists Students plan recruitment strategies for the new school year: Demand and disorient. Photo CREDIT Klansmen Survive Campus Upheavals University buildings still honor grand wizards and cyclops. Latest Search Latest Articles ON CAMPUS The ‘Free Speech’ Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Media Conservatives are obsessed with protecting “free speech,” but only the kind they agree with. Aug. 14, 2017 ON CAMPUS What U.Va. Students Saw in Charlottesville “The alt-right rally,” said one student, “had nothing to do with a statue. It was about intimidation.” Aug. 13, 2017 A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry Mastery-based learning allows students to learn at their own pace. Aug. 11, 2017 More Law Schools Begin Accepting GRE Test Results Many schools are casting wider nets to attract students who would not otherwise set their sights on a legal education. Aug. 10, 2017 Prep School Reports Reveal a Chain of Sexual Misconduct Two elite boarding schools, Emma Willard and Phillips Academy, Andover, say a teacher who worked at both schools abused students at both of them. Aug. 7, 2017 ESSAY With Snowflakes and Unicorns, Marina Ratner and Maryam Mirzakhani Explored a Universe in Motion The legacies and achievements of two great mathematicians will dazzle and intrigue scholars for decades. Aug. 7, 2017 Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration said a program starting in September, which critics have called “Attica University,” will reach about 2,500 inmates. Aug. 7, 2017 Mark White, Texas Governor Who Championed Public Education, Dies at 77 As governor from 1983 to 1987, Mr. White limited class sizes, increased teachers’ pay and required high school athletes to pass their classes. Aug. 6, 2017 MARKDALE JOURNAL An Ice Cream Maker’s Latest Recipe: Saving the Local School It looked as if a small town in Ontario would lose its school. But a local business has proved an unlikely savior, offering millions of dollars to save it. Aug. 6, 2017 Singapore Orders Expulsion of American Academic The order said Huang Jing had tried to influence Singapore’s foreign policy on behalf of an unnamed foreign government. Aug. 5, 2017 SHOW MORE SKIP TO NAVIGATION EDUCATION LIFE A quarterly section on higher education, with articles about student life and trends in the classroom. This issue focuses on the quality of student writing, admissions essays, high schools of the performing arts, student activism, programs for the developmentally disabled and more. 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