Guest host Adrian Florido speaks with Mitchell Chang, associate vice chancellor at UCLA, about what's at risk if affirmative action in college admissions is overturned.
Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams have competed before. Since then, the pandemic, the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the 2020 election have made governors even more visible.
If they do what it sounded like they will do, it will end the ability of colleges and universities, public and private, to consider race as one factor in admissions.
The state is working with the group Graduation Alliance to provide $5 million dollars in help to get up to 50,000 students back on track. The alliance will provide academic success coaches to encourage students, and even help with homework.
At its monthly meeting in October, the board voted to expand sensory rooms to each of the district’s 34 schools to allow for a safe space where students may recalibrate, recollect and self-regulate.
The justices are re-examining decades of precedent allowing affirmative action policies. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the court will overrule some or all of those precedents.
A new scholarship program for students at historically black colleges and universities bears the name of former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young.
The court will hear two cases challenging the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The trucking industry projects it will need to hire over a million drivers over the next decade. One idea that's gained some traction: Bring in younger drivers, starting in high school.
Where do I apply? Who qualifies? Can borrowers get a refund? NPR took the most frequently asked questions readers had about Biden's student loan relief plan and answered them.
Georgia school systems will receive $51.1 million in federal grants for the purchase of electric school buses, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Oct. 26, 2022
The U.S. Education Department announced plans Tuesday to permanently change the long-troubled program to grant more borrowers forgiveness. The department had already made several temporary changes.
Davis was a public intellectual best known for his book City of Quartz and other searing critiques of capitalism, corruption and environmental degradation.
Many high school seniors are in the thick of college application season. It's a stressful time that writer Kelly Corrigan calls a "dumpster fire." To change that she argues parents have to help less.