Man Charged After White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville Ends in Deadly Violence
Protests of a plan to remove a statue of a Confederate general led to clashes that left at least one person dead and 34 others injured, officials said.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 CreditAngela Asemota Why Kids Can’t Write
Some say English instruction must get back to basics, with a focus on grammar. But won’t that stifle a student’s personal voice?
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Photo CreditYana Paskova for The New York Times How to Conquer the Admissions Essay
Your goal: to make someone fall in love with you (or at least your writing). First, choose a topic you really want to write about.
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Photo CreditLaura McDermott for The New York Times Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain
How an engineering professor who “flunked my way” through high school math and science went on to create the world’s most popular online course.
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Photo CreditScott McIntyre for The New York Times Where All the School’s a Stage, and the List of Success Stories Is Long
In high schools of the performing and visual arts, race, sexual identity and ZIP code are beside the point. But not academics.
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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.
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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.
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Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.
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Political organizing is tedious. Change comes with dogged, on-the-ground work, not a list of demands, according to Harvard Resistance School.
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University buildings still honor grand wizards and cyclops.
