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News Articles: Education

Elijah Outlaw listens to an instructor at the Columbus Department of Fire & EMS training facility on August 25, 2021, in Columbus, Ga.

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  • Education

High school grads in Columbus eligible for firefighter jobs when they graduate thanks to new program

After department officials visited each MCSD high school to explain the program last spring semester, more than 25 students participated in the Saturday morning program called Combat Challenge.

December 08, 2021
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By:
  • Associated Press
The Supreme Court's conservative majority has been shrinking the Constitution's wall of separation between church and state, particularly in cases dealing with religious schools.

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  • Law

Supreme Court weighs mandating public funds for religious schools in Maine

At issue in the case is whether the state, which pays for some students to attend nonsectarian private schools, should also pay tuition for students to attend religious schools.

December 08, 2021
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
President Biden walks to Marine One outside the White House on Dec. 2.

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  • Education

Biden pledged to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt. Here's what he's done so far

President Biden provided hundreds of thousands of borrowers with debt relief this year — but his campaign promise to cancel at least $10,000 of student debt per person remains unfulfilled.

December 07, 2021
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By:
  • Cory Turner
Stewart Indian School students are seen in a classroom in Carson, Nev., in an undated photo. The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools.

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  • National

Nevada's governor apologizes for the state's past role in Indigenous schools

Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized on behalf of his state and promised to cooperate with an investigation of the federal government's past policies and oversight of Native American boarding schools.

December 04, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press

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  • Education

The case for free tampons and pads in schools

Activists say menstrual products are a basic necessity that shouldn't require a long walk to the school nurse's office, and that providing them is key to removing the stigma of periods.

December 04, 2021
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By:
  • Mansee Khurana
A nurse administers a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University, Long Beach campus.

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  • Education

Colleges with high vaccination rates must now decide if they'll require boosters

Wesleyan University is among a small group of colleges requiring COVID-19 boosters for spring semester. Will other institutions follow?

December 03, 2021
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
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  • Perspective

Loretta J. Ross: What if we called people in, rather than calling them out?

How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in—instead of calling them out.

December 03, 2021
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By:
  • Manoush Zomorodi,
  • James Delahoussaye,
  • and 1 more
People embrace as they visit a makeshift memorial outside of Oxford High School on Wednesday in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

What we know about the young victims of the Oxford High School shooting in Michigan

Oxford High School lost four young students in a shooting this week. The victims, many of them athletes on school teams, were between 14 and 17 years old.

December 02, 2021
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz and
  • Deepa Shivaram
Students hold candles during a prayer vigil after the shootings at Oxford High School on Tuesday in Oxford, Mich.

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  • National

15-year-old boy charged with murder, terrorism in Michigan high school shooting

Charges against the boy were announced a few hours after authorities reported the death of a fourth teen from Oxford High School in southeastern Michigan.

December 01, 2021
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Education

NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back: With a $5,000 prize!

What does college sound like? Send us your best podcasts and our judges will choose a winner from among 10 finalists

December 01, 2021
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By:
  • Sequoia Carrillo and
  • Steve Drummond

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  • Education

Submit To The College Podcast Challenge

Submit here for the College Podcast Challenge

December 01, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
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  • Education

NPR's College Podcast Challenge Official Rules

The official rules for the NPR College Podcast Challenge

December 01, 2021
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  • GPB Newsroom
Hollins University was founded in 1842 on the principle that "young women require the same thorough and rigid training as that afforded to young men."

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  • National

Who belongs at a women's college in 2021? Students want admissions policies to change

Women's colleges have adapted admissions policies for a generation that increasingly identifies as nonbinary. Hollins University's exclusion of nonbinary applicants has raised hackles.

November 26, 2021
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By:
  • Melissa Block
A photo of a student in a school library.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Education is set to be a headline issue in 2022. Here’s why

Wednesday on Political Rewind: Education re-emerges as a top issue in state and national politics. In Georgia, Democrats say they feel blindsided by a proposal that would — among other things — reshape school boards across the state.

November 24, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 2 more

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  • Education

Parents are scrambling after schools suddenly cancel class over staffing and burnout

School districts around the country have been announcing extra days off this fall to address staff shortages and mental health. For some families, the unpredictable schedule feels like a betrayal.

November 24, 2021
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By:
  • Anya Kamenetz
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