Education Headlines

March (Audio) Madness! Here are the finalists in NPR's College Podcast Challenge
Thu Mar 05 5:00 am
From 75 campuses across 35 states, we've listened to hundreds of student entries to select the very best for NPR's College Podcast Challenge.
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Announcing the 2025 NPR College Podcast Challenge Honorable Mentions
Thu Mar 05 5:00 am
Here are some of the best entries in NPR's 2025 College Podcast Challenge.
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College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree
Tue Mar 03 5:00 am
More than three years after ChatGPT debuted, AI has become a part of everyday life — and professors and students are still figuring out how or if they should use it.
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A U.S. scholarship thrills a teacher in India. Then came the soul-crushing questions
Sun Mar 01 8:36 am
She was thrilled to become the first teacher from a government-sponsored school in India to get a Fulbright exchange award to learn from U.S. schools. People asked two questions that clouded her joy.
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Columbia student detained by ICE is abruptly released after Mamdani meets with Trump
Thu Feb 26 3:47 pm
Hours after the student was taken into custody in her campus apartment, she was released, after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed concerns about the arrest to President Trump.
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Harvard professor Larry Summers to resign as school investigates his ties to Epstein
Thu Feb 26 4:41 am
Harvard professor and economist Larry Summers will resign at the end of the academic year amid the school's on-going investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Jeffrey Epstein's financial ties to higher education raises questions and protests
Thu Feb 26 4:41 am
The recent release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein revealed his ties to several colleges and universities, raising questions and protests about how institutions should handle problematic donors.
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Kansas City high school teaches financial literacy with student-run credit union
Wed Feb 25 4:39 am
Students at a Kansas City high school are learning real-life banking skills by running their own credit union in the school.
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Facing a mental health crisis, an NJ school pulled a beloved novel from English class
Fri Feb 20 10:27 am
Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao was removed from an English class at the public school. PEN America says it's part of a trend of scrubbing literature dealing with uncomfortable topics.
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What worked and what didn't with a cellphone ban at a Kentucky school
Fri Feb 20 5:00 am
Keeping students off their devices is the new norm in many schools. We talked to students and educators at one Kentucky school to see how it's working.
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