Education

OB/GYN Dr. Jennifer Lincoln answers sexual education questions on TikTok and debunks myths she hears. She feels she has to, calling America’s sexual education standards “a complete embarrassment” compared to other countries.

There are a wealth of financial literacy resources available to parents, if they know where to look.

U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it

A new survey from the Biden administration finds that large numbers of students are not returning to the classroom even as more schools reopen for full-time, in-person learning

The Education Department announced plans Tuesday to hold a public hearing on how schools ought to handle sexual misconduct cases as the first step in a planned overhaul of Title IX regulations. In a letter released by the Education Department, the hearing is described as a chance for students, parents, school officials and advocates to weigh in before the Biden...

Having more personal finance education in school would have helped people better manage their finances during the pandemic, a study finds.

Fewer Black and Hispanic students than whites are required to take a personal finance course to graduate high school, research shows.

Teach kids about money and they’re more likely to go to college, graduate with less debt and have better credit as adults.

Teachers who are tasked with leading instruction on personal finance are not always well-equipped to teach it — and can benefit from specialized training.

Far too few students receive personal finance education during high school. Yet they are expected to make big financial decisions after they graduate.

Schools across the U.S. are weighing how to use a windfall from the federal government’s latest coronavirus relief package

Less than three weeks after leaving his post as NYC schools chancellor — saying he needed “time to grieve” his coronavirus losses — Richard Carranza has landed a senior gig with a Silicon Valley educational software firm. Carranza will join IXL Learning as chief of strategy and global development, the company said in a statement. The company, which says its…

Less than three weeks after leaving his post as NYC schools chancellor — saying he needed “time to grieve” his coronavirus losses — Richard Carranza has landed a senior gig with a Silicon Valley educational software firm.

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros has committed $500 million to a private liberal arts college in New York

The education advocacy group worries that waiting until children are vaccinated will only further delay in-person learning.

Some students at a British university said the statue of climate activist Greta Thunberg was a waste of money.

A study on Covid’s long-term impact on students finds “significant” academic learning loss.

A new federal survey finds that nearly half of the nation’s elementary schools were open for full-time, in-person instruction last month, but the share of students learning in-person has varied greatly by region and race

As college students adapted to online education during Covid-19, they learned new methods to cheat on exams, and experts worry the trend is rising.

School counselors in many urban, high needs districts have been consumed with efforts to help students engage with their schoolwork since the pandemic hit