4 Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into the J-1 Visa Program
Some American companies have used the cultural exchange program as a supply of cheap, exploitable labor, records and interviews show.
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CreditMarko Risovic for The New York Times The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook
Conservative efforts to call out and punish educators over liberal ideas have grown for years, led in part by Charlie Kirk himself.
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The Kremlin has infused education with nationalism and militarism. Outlawing the International Baccalaureate underlines that effort.
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CreditNanna Heitmann for The New York Times They Held a Rally for Charter Schools. Then Came the Backlash.
A large demonstration — and a hostile response — could signal a resurgence of a political battle over the publicly funded but privately run schools.
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Nepal to Investigate Killings and Arson in Student Protests
It is a first effort by the country’s new government to understand the sequence of violent events that led to the abrupt downfall of the old one.
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CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times The High School Teacher Leading Mexico’s ‘Fashion Police’
A teacher and journalist has gained a large following for highlighting the apparent luxury items worn by politicians. It has also earned him high-profile detractors.
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CreditJorge García Orozco Harvard’s Former President Criticizes Its Approach to Trump
Claudine Gay has rarely spoken out since she was forced to resign, but she recently said that Harvard should not cave to Trump administration demands, including a $500 million payment.
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CreditAdam Glanzman for The New York Times Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
The university had been roiled after a student filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.
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CreditSam Craft/Associated Press After Kirk’s Death, Students Return to Campus and Learn ‘How to Be Adults’
Utah Valley University burst into the nation’s consciousness when Charlie Kirk was slain there. Its students resumed classes Wednesday, most trying to get on with their busy lives.
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Trump Redirects Millions to Historically Black Colleges, Charter Schools
The Trump administration is cutting money from programs that have supported minority students, including at other universities.
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CreditMaansi Srivastava for The New York Times The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated.
For years, only a small portion of the people experiencing long spells of joblessness were college graduates. That’s starting to change.
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CreditJordan Gale for The New York Times A ‘Mural’ of Garage Doors, Painted by Students
Publicolor, a nonprofit, gets teenagers painting. Usually they work in schools, but for a project downtown, they have a different canvas.
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CreditJames Barron/The New York Times New York TodayKirk Assassination Puts America’s Political Spotlight on Campuses Again
Colleges are often the setting, and the target, of the nation’s most heated politics. Charlie Kirk’s work on campuses was one factor.
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CreditM. Scott Brauer for The New York Times Voucher Push Is Reshaping Private School Education, Study Finds
Vouchers are spurring the growth of low-priced, Christian schools that often serve small populations of students. They’re also pushing up tuition prices.
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As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
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CreditHannah Yoon for The New York Times At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Faced with declining enrollment, smaller schools are harnessing innovative ideas — like course sharing — to attract otherwise reluctant students.
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In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
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Judge Orders N.I.H. to Restore Suspended Research Grants at U.C.L.A.
The ruling is a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit over the Trump administration’s termination of hundreds of millions of research grants to the California university.
By Katrina Miller
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Readers, including the author Jhumpa Lahiri, respond to the Barnard president’s guest essay about speakers at universities. Also: The benefits of trees.
U.S. News Rankings Are Out After a Tumultuous Year for Colleges
But despite it all, very little changed on the lists many parents and prospective students turn to as admissions season kicks off.
By Alan Blinder
Guest EssayDon’t Fall for the Rigged College Game
The frantic competition that we’ve normalized is based on a lie about what makes a college education truly valuable.
By Jeffrey Selingo
For Erika Kirk, a Husband’s Life Cut Short by Violence He Seemed to Foresee
In an interview, the wife of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk said she had implored him to wear a bulletproof vest. But she sees divine work in his death.
By Robert Draper
M. GessenThis Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.
This is one of those moments in history.
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They Were Promised a Taste of America. They Got Abuse and Exploitation.
Every year, tens of thousands of young people are sent on visas to toil as farmworkers, housekeepers and office interns, all in the name of cultural exchange.
By Amy Julia Harris
Taliban Bans Books by Women in Afghanistan’s Universities
More than 600 books, many of them written by women, are being purged, based on a contention that they conflict with Sharia principles.
By Pranav Baskar
Trump Officials Question Harvard’s Stability, Saying Federal Inquiries Raise Financial Risk
The administration’s latest attack on the nation’s oldest university comes as negotiations stall for a settlement to restore billions in frozen federal research funds.
By Michael C. Bender
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The Common Data Set can help prospective students know how much aid they could get to pay for college. Why don’t all schools provide it?
By Ron Lieber
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