Education

NCC board cites Conzatti’s pluses The editorial “Give NCC a new leader, fresh start” Opinion, Editorial, Nov. 23] overlooks the significant progress at Nassau Community College under Maria…

From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families. In some cases, parents have been deported or…

SIDOARJO, Indonesia — Indonesian rescue authorities made the tough decision on Thursday to start using heavy machinery to move large sections of a collapsed school, with no more…

On her first full day of preschool, Alexander Lane’s 3-year-old daughter stayed in the car for an hour at drop-off because she didn’t want to go inside. On…

Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down after facing criticism over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender, which led…

Heather Rand is the kind of teacher who goes the extra mile for her students — even after they’ve graduated from her sixth-grade classroom. Rand, 49, co-teaches a…

BATON ROUGE, La. — For decades, Kent Broussard had dreamed about joining Louisiana State University’s prestigious marching band. But, as dreams far too often go, it fell to…

NEW YORK — Venus and Serena Williams are partners in a new initiative to provide opportunities for young people from under-resourced communities through tennis and education. The Williams…

TOKYO — Kokichi Akuzawa almost gave up during his trek to became the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California schools would have to create plans for notifying parents and teachers when immigration enforcement is on campus under a bill passed Tuesday by the…