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Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a

The world's first winged commercial spaceplane has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, its final destination before its makes history this year, embarking on its debut uncrewed mission to the International Space Station.

Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences.

A new report finds college enrollment numbers, which plummeted during the pandemic, are slowly but steadily ticking back up.

In 2023, about one in four students was chronically absent. Schools are going above and beyond to turn those numbers around. That often means having difficult conversations with students and families.

Jessica Winter writes about the NBC reporter Mike Hixenbaugh’s new book, “They Came for the Schools,” and the nationwide assault on public education.

The talking machine was an overnight sensation and its 31-year-old inventor, Thomas Edison, celebrated as the greatest ever.  Edison called his machine the phonograph—combining the Greek words for sound or voice with writing.  The New York Times called it “bottled sound,” predicting that the elegant host of the future would draw from a well-stocked oratorical cellar to choose the meal’s orators:

 

As a pleasant and palatable table orator, he will select dry “Mark Twain” or “Beecher” although the latter has too much body.

 

Bottled sound became the phonograph craze.  Introduced in December 1877, by the spring of 1878, people were flocking in wonder to demonstrations of the Edison talking machine in churches, libraries, and halls of science from Boston to Chicago to San Francisco.  Many of the demonstrations were organized by Edison’s associates who would blithely suggest that “Mr. Edison’s work would now speak for itself.”

A Massachusetts congressman wants to discuss cutting federal funding to colleges and universities that he says have been "ransacked" by antisemitism.

 

Speaking on WBUR's Radio Boston, U.S. Rep. Jake Auchincloss said universities that fail to protect Jewish students from harassment are violating federal law and could lose federal funding. His comments echoed and broadened out his response to a question during a Fox News interview about reports of antisemitism at Harvard University and other colleges.

UMass Amherst faculty and librarians voted no confidence in Chancellor Javier Reyes on Monday. They said he "created an unsafe environment by summoning a militarized police force" to campus on May 7. More than 130 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested.

WOODS HOLE – Scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have created an effective new method of tracking marine animals by developing a Bioadhesive Interface for Marine Sensors,…

Because the concert was recorded for broadcast on WCRB radio, the ‘wow’ went viral. Poet and author Todd Boss was among those who heard it, and he wrote a children’s book inspired by the event.

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles—though not yet those of our universe.

When my daughter was a year old, my mother handed me a worn-out copy of Pearl S. Buck’s The Child Who Never Grew (1950). The act of giving me this book felt significant, like an inheritance that sh…

Billionaire philanthropist Rob Hale gave UMass Dartmouth graduates $1,000 each, and instructed them to donate half. He tells NPR the best cause students can support is one that matters to them.

Sophomore Neomi sits quietly in an office at her high school in a Colorado mountain town west of Denver. It's a cold December morning and she's wearing gold and black Nikes and a gray hoodie, pulled up.

 

She's surrounded by school staff and her mom.

 

"I just wanna be really clear about the intention of this meeting. It's not to make you feel bad," says Dave, a school administrator.

 

"What's going on?" he asks Neomi. "Why aren't we coming to school? Because you were coming to school quite a bit, and then all of a sudden..."

 

As Neomi listens, tears roll down her cheeks.

 

"Do you not feel safe? Are you stressed?" Dave asks softly.

 

Finally, in a quiet voice, the teen says, "I don't have friends. I don't have any people."

Boeing and NASA quelled two technical issues on the company's Starliner spacecraft, including a "design vulnerability" requiring a temporary workaround, to get the capsule back on track for its first mission carrying two astronauts to space, officials said on Friday.

Universities are using draconian measures against student protesters who refuse to deem Palestinian suffering “unreal.”…

Paige Williams writes that an ambitious experiment in Minneapolis is changing the way librarians work with their homeless patrons and challenging how we share public space.

In this politically polarized time in our nation’s history, it is easy to become frustrated when some people make arguments that demonstrate either an incomplete or utter lack of knowledge about the basics of American government. The frustration only grows deeper when many of these same people then refuse to engage in government either by voting or attending meetings to

ADHD is an ongoing and expanding public health concern, according to researchers studying the disorder. One million more U.S. children were diagnosed in 2022 compared to 2016, a new study shows.

 

About 1 in 9 children in the U.S. between the ages of 3 and 17 have been diagnosed with ADHD, according to a new CDC report. 

After skyrocketing during the pandemic, the number of students considered "chronically absent" from school is finally starting to drop, though still well above pre-COVID levels.

In the spirit of ruthless equity firms and asset-stripping hedge fund managers, pedagogies of conformity, silencing, and ethical abandonment now proliferate under the guise of budget cuts or overt attempts to transform higher education into white nationalist indoctrination centers. Universities are now viewed as businesses, students as clients, and faculty as a serf-like, casual labor force. Furthermore, administrative leadership has regressed, modeling itself after hedge fund managers and embracing a market-driven ideology that believes the irrational belief that the market to solve all problems and control not only the economy but all aspects of social life.