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Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, Karina Elwood Students returning to school in a growing number of states and districts are facing tight restrictions and outright bans on cellphone use as [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Early one morning in September 1970, 5-year-old Kamala Harris walked to the corner of her street to wait for a school bus that would take her up [...]

Byline: Justin Jouvenal, Laura Meckler A divided Supreme Court refused to require some states to enforce new rules on how schools should handle complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination, leaving [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson The 2019 state budget negotiations in Minnesota were tense, with a deadline looming, when the speaker of the House offered Gov. Tim Walz a suggestion [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Steve Hendrix - - - Correction: A previous version of this article said incorrectly that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a 2020 raid in Iran. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler A controversial Biden administration regulation protecting transgender, gay and lesbian students from discrimination took effect Thursday in 24 states but remains on hold in the rest of [...]

Byline: Hannah Knowles, Laura Meckler, Lori Rozsa WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Donald Trump honed his attacks on Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, in a speech at the [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Steve Hendrix Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived Friday for a Florida meeting with former president Donald Trump at a time of political tension between their two [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Lauren Lumpkin For a time, it appeared as if academic recovery from covid was underway. Now, new research shows that many students are actually sinking even deeper. [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Susan Svrluga A lawsuit filed Tuesday against Northwestern University opened a new front in the battle against affirmative action, alleging that its law school hires less-qualified people [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler When Congress sent tens of billions of dollars to schools - an unprecedented sum - to battle the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed like reopening campuses was going [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The federal Education Department said Monday that two universities failed to adequately protect both Jewish and Muslim students in the heated days after the Oct. 7 Hamas [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler A federal court blocked the Education Department from enforcing new regulations aimed at protecting transgender students in schools, finding that opponents a sued to stop it are [...]

Byline: Hannah Natanson, Laura Meckler A privately funded effort to use disputed videos to teach conservative values in public schools is gaining traction, as Louisiana recently became the sixth state [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Michelle Boorstein Billions in taxpayer dollars are being used to pay tuition at religious schools throughout the country, as state voucher programs expand dramatically and the line [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Emily Guskin, Scott Clement Seventy years after the Supreme Court delivered its landmark decision outlawing school segregation, Brown v. Board of Education ranks as perhaps the court's [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Nicole Asbury House Republicans accused leaders of three large school districts Wednesday of doing too little to confront antisemitism in their schools amid a number of incidents [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Nicole Asbury The leaders of three large school districts forcefully defended themselves Wednesday under intense and sometimes hostile questioning from House Republicans, who repeatedly accused them of [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson As pro-Palestinian student protests surged in the past week, universities responded with consequences not imposed en masse for decades: suspensions, expulsions and arrests, hoping to [...]

Byline: Daniel Wu, Richard Morgan, Laura Meckler Fallout from nationwide pro-Palestinian protests continued Monday as Columbia University canceled its main commencement ceremony, Harvard threatened suspensions of demonstrators in an encampment [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler ItÇÖs well documented that after falling for years, school segregation has risen again in the United States. But why? New research by academics at the University of [...]

Byline: Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Laura Meckler, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Justin Jouvenal An edgy calm held on many college campuses Friday after more than two weeks of chaotic protests, following police crackdowns on [...]

Byline: Kyle Melnick, Laura Meckler NEW YORK - Columbia University on Monday began suspending students who refused to leave a pro-Palestinian encampment after negotiations with protesters failed and the students [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Richard Morgan NEW YORK - Columbia University ordered student protesters to leave their nearly two-week-old pro-Palestinian encampment by 2 p.m. Monday, warning those who do not will [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Michelle Boorstein The protests outside her window at Columbia University were loud, and Dahlia Soussan lay awake all night, tossing in her dorm room bed, a little [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Biden administration on Friday finalized sweeping new rules barring schools from discriminating against transgender students and ordering significant changes for how schools adjudicate claims of sexual [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Biden administration on Friday finalized sweeping new rules barring schools from discriminating against transgender students and ordering significant changes for how schools adjudicate claims of sexual [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, Justin Jouvenal On Tuesday, parents in Michigan were sentenced to prison for what they did - and didnÇÖt do - before their sonÇÖs high school [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Oklahoma Supreme Court will take up a closely watched religious liberty case on Tuesday, with justices considering whether the state can directly fund religious education in [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Oklahoma Supreme Court considered Tuesday whether the state can directly fund religious education, with some justices voicing skepticism that a proposed Catholic charter school could pass [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The Biden administration is preparing to finalize sweeping rules in coming weeks governing how sex discrimination is addressed in schools, including new protections for transgender students. But [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson, John D. Harden School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ+ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Karina Elwood When the Supreme Court allowed an elite magnet school in Northern Virginia to continue using a new system for admissions aimed at diversifying its student [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler In New York City, Jewish leaders, teachers and parents demanded that the schools do more to address what they see as antisemitism, staging a rally on the [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler The deep academic regression American students suffered during the pandemic has at last turned a corner, new data show, as scores in reading and math stopped falling [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson Ninety percent of students showed up to school on a typical day this fall, according to a new federal survey, a figure that experts [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson In the year following George Floyd's murder in 2020, the number of school resource officers fell as districts responded to calls for limits on [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Susan Svrluga and Danielle Douglas-Gabriel The resignation of Claudine Gay as president of Harvard University marks the culmination of a conservative war on higher education, long fought [...]

Byline: Peter Jamison and Laura Meckler When Melanie Elsey stepped up to the lectern at the Ohio Statehouse in April, it looked like a triumphant season for home-schoolers. Lawmakers would [...]

Byline: Michelle Boorstein, Claire Healy, Marissa J. Lang, Gillian Brockell and Laura Meckler Thousands of people supporting Palestinian rights converged Saturday on Washington from around the country, demanding a cease-fire [...]

Byline: Michelle Boorstein, Ellie Silverman and Laura Meckler Nada El-Eryan hopes to stand among thousands of people gathered in the nation's capital Saturday and join the calls for a cease-fire [...]

Byline: Peter Jamison, Laura Meckler, Prayag Gordy, Clara Ence Morse and Chris Alcantara Home schooling has become - by a wide margin - America's fastest-growing form of education, as families [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler and Peter Jamison In March 2020, an involuntary form of home schooling - remote learning - was thrust upon American families everywhere. Millions could not wait to [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Tim Craig and Aaron Gregg It might seem like a safe move: condemn violence on both sides of the conflict in Israel and express support for Jews [...]

Byline: Jack Stripling and Laura Meckler On Saturday evening, after Hamas militants launched a devastating surprise missile attack on Israel, Vanderbilt University Chancellor Daniel Diermeier released a statement expressing heartbreak [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Peter Jamison, Emily Guskin and Scott Clement A pandemic-era boom has fundamentally changed the face of American home schooling, transforming a group that has for decades been [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler Schools across the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast closed or dismissed students early this week as a heat wave pounded a swath of the country with scorching temperatures. [...]

Byline: Toluse Olorunnipa and Laura Meckler As students settle into classrooms and the Republican presidential campaign kicks into high gear, President Biden has begun pushing back on hot-button issues related [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson and John D. Harden In the raging culture wars, conservative parents jumped out first with a robust agenda built around the defense of 'parents' rights.' [...]

Byline: Laura Meckler An Oklahoma board approved the nation's first religious charter school on Monday, agreeing to publicly fund a school where Catholic teachings will be incorporated into lessons throughout [...]