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Internet routers, passwords, phones, odometers, and bowling pins. A lot of things in our daily lives need resetting, including sometimes ourselves. This can be especially true for children learning in school. Reset rooms have...

Busted for using AI to write your paper? Caught sending threatening messages to your TA? Drunk and disorderly on campus, with maybe some property damage in the mix? Or maybe another student’s accusing you of something truly...

In his song “Beautiful Boy,” John Lennon famously mused that “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” If you are a college student, making plans is practically your job description. You are...

As a parent, there are few things as terrifying as having your child hospitalized. Whether suffering from an acute injury or undergoing medical treatment, no one wants their child to be hospitalized. Too often, parents navigating...

If you’ve ever mixed up the terms homebound and homeschooled, you’re not alone. Families use them interchangeably all the time—but schools and the law see them as two very different things. And that difference can...

Across the country, medical and other graduate schools are teaching a new generation of professionals how to work responsibly and ethically. As professionalism standards are integrated into curricula, colleges and universities...

Schools and colleges are places where people often experience some of the most important personal growth in their entire lives. However, male students often find that education is unfair and isolating. Across the country, there is...

Universities have long been places where students and faculty can engage in open and healthy debate about political and non-political issues. However, in recent years this discourse has been limited at institutions across the...

A new study by the New York University (NYU) Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has revealed a disturbing trend in student disciplinary action. Teacher turnover is contributing to higher rates of...

New York City just elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor. And higher ed leaders throughout New York are scrambling to decode what his administration could actually mean for their campuses and students. His campaign didn’t exactly...

if you’ve been watching the rollout of the White House’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” you’ve probably noticed something a little… odd. As the first deadline hit, a wave of...

Kevin Spacey once had a busy — and lucrative — acting career, appearing in critically acclaimed movies, TV shows, and plays on the New York and London stages. In 2017, when he was starring in Netflix’s highly regarded...

“I acknowledge I did not do a good job of communicating, but I’m really scared,” a medical student with a damaging note in their MSPE posted on Reddit; the negative opinion “could potentially sabotage my whole...

Like many small liberal arts colleges, the vibe at Reed College in Portland, OR, is supportive, friendly, and safe. Students and faculty at this school of fewer than 1,400 students feel a sense of home there, a sense they carry...

A University of North Carolina professor was fired and then swiftly reinstated after being accused of advocating political violence in a classroom discussion. The incident drew national attention not only for what was said, but...

Losing a loved one is a difficult time in your life. Grief can be all-consuming, and the circumstances around the person’s death may be incredibly traumatic. To make matters worse, you may now have to navigate additional...

Sure, there are challenges when it comes to parenting an autistic child. But the joys often far outweigh the difficulties. If only you could say the same thing about your child’s school. Parents sending their disabled...

Student speech has robust protections, but schools can step in when speech raises safety concerns, contains obscenities, or disrupts the classroom. A recent federal appeals court decision is another example of the gray area...

Today’s educators and students face a complex system of rules and regulations. The constant obligations can be hard to meet, but that doesn’t mean teachers and school administrators can ignore them. Even though LRE...

The pressure of today’s competitive academic environment can tempt some students to participate in contract cheating—paying a third party to complete coursework, write essays, or even take exams on their behalf. These...