Worse, as the administration grows increasingly brazen, children are no longer merely victims of immigration policies — they are direct targets. Thousands of children are now separated from parents at ...

Emma, a third grader, cries hot, angry tears when she doesn’t get her way. She is a bit too old to cry over losing in games like foursquare, but she has a “strong internal sense of justice,” as the ...

“Colleges began to see themselves as providing this very broad suite of services, all of which were personnel-intensive,” Wood said — athletics, housing, dining, security, transportation, mental ...

AMHERST, Mass. — The parking lots are mostly vacant. Locked and dark, many of the buildings are lifeless but for dying plants in dusty pots. One of the few people visible is a white-bearded man on a ...

I remember the first time I walked into a prison writing workshop. The shadowed room contained little more than a dozen mismatched plastic chairs and a few warped tables. Before I signed up, I had ...

As student mental health care needs overwhelm college counseling departments, universities create programs that prescribe nature, arts and belonging ...

An investigation found what Texas disciplinary programs look like at their worst. This is what they can look like when someone decides to do it differently ...

Americans are turning against higher education. At least, that’s what many of them say. Only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college education “very important,” accor ...

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Colleges and universities should offer fair financial aid packages and provide transparency about the true cost ...