Kristen Uroda for NPR This story is adapted from Life Kit's weekly newsletter, which arrives in inboxes each Friday. Subscribe here. The robes are out, the tassels are swinging, and those mortarboards are thick with glitter glue and the pun du jour — that's right all, it's graduation season. Graduation ...

Howard University has prompted an outcry from students and scholars over its decision to dissolve its classics department, the only such program at a historically Black college or university in the nation.Andrew Harnik | AP Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the nation's only historically Black university with a classics ...

LA Johnson Sibling drama, identity crises — so much climate change — and of course: the challenges of school and life in the pandemic. This year NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has all those things, and more. For the last few months, students all over the country have been doing what ...

Wearing a mask and a face shield to curb the spread of the coronavirus, 10-year-old Jade Chan Puc writes in her workbook during the first day of class in Hecelchakán, Campeche state, Mexico, on April 19. On average, schools in Latin America and the Caribbean were closed longer than any ...

Amy Donofrio stands in front of Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla. She was suspended from teaching duties after she refused to take down a Black Lives Matter flag from outside her classroom.Amy Donofrio Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla., was segregated — whites only — ...

Michelle Kondrich for NPR In Jasmine Williams' family, graduating from the University of Michigan is a rite of passage. Her parents met on the campus, and her older sister graduated from the school a few years ago. She remembers sitting bundled up in the family section for that graduation. "It ...

Emily Knowles sits outside her apartment in Watertown, Mass. Knowles has some college credits but no degree and works as a quality assurance analyst at Ovia Health, a Boston-based digital company that serves people who are starting families. "This is something that I never thought would be possible," Knowles said.Meredith ...

President Biden is set to unveil a sweeping package of spending and tax reforms Wednesday.Brendan Smialowski | AFP via Getty Images Updated April 28, 2021 at 5:03 PM ET On the eve of his 100th day in office, President Biden will lay out the latest plank in his economic agenda, ...

It's been a year since teachers were handed an unprecedented request: Educate students in entirely new ways, amid the backdrop of a global pandemic. In this comic series, we'll illustrate one educator's story each week from now until the end of the school year. Episode 6 Librarian Emily Curtis and ...

Miriam Colvin's podcast "Competition With The Best" was one of two grand prize winners in the college edition of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge.Elissa Nadworny | NPR Every family has that story you've heard a thousand times. It's swapped at family reunions, over holidays or at birthday parties. Sometimes the edges ...