Students play at recess on an outdoor court at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on March 7, 2022, in New York City.Michael Loccisano | Getty Images Two years ago this month, schools closed their doors in 185 countries. According to UNESCO, roughly 9 out of 10 schoolchildren worldwide were out ...

Open windows and portable air cleaners can help improve ventilation, but many schools in the U.S. are more than 45 years old and need a complete overhaul of their HVAC systems.Michael Loccisano | Getty Images Not many people can say the pandemic has made their jobs easier. But in some ...

Fernando Cobelo for NPR This story first appeared in NPR's education newsletter. Sign up to get early access to exclusive stories like this. Federal student loan payments are supposed to resume in May, more than two years after they were paused because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the Education Department ...

LA Johnson | NPR From deep space to their own backyard, students were eager to take us on a journey for this year's College Podcast Challenge. And they brought their best storytelling to the second annual NPR contest – we've been tickled, moved, and even enlightened by some of the ...

Hanna Barczyk for NPR More than 41 million people have outstanding federal student loans, totaling more than $1.5 trillion. But not all borrowers have the same experience. For a start, more than a third of borrowers have an outstanding balance of $10,000 or less. Second, about 20% of borrowers are ...

Updated March 7, 2022 at 5:10 PM ET For several days, Shivangi Jaiswal and her classmates had to collect snow in bottles to drink. Now the running water is back on at their university in northeastern Ukraine. But like much of the local population, these international students feel terrified and ...

Post racist attack in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. American National Red Cross Photograph Collection.GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images About 10 years ago, Shukree Hassan Tilghman tried to cancel Black History Month. Outfitted in a sandwich board with the words "End Black History Month" written across the front, ...

Scammers usually rely on phone calls to try to con their victims.Chelsea Beck | NPR Like millions of Americans, Emmy Ross has a bunch of student debt. So when she started getting phone calls from people offering to help have the loans forgiven, she was immediately interested. The problem? They ...

Therrious Davis for NPR Updated February 24, 2022 at 12:37 PM ET For the past three years, librarian Cicely Lewis has organized weekly Black History Month celebrations at her school in Norcross, Ga. This year was no different. "We had a head-wrapping station. We had a storybook station ... We ...

About 1,800 former DeVry University students will receive more than $70 million in federal student loan relief from the U.S. Department of Education.J Pat Carter | AP Nearly 16,000 federal student loan borrowers who were misled by for-profit colleges will have $415 million in debts erased, according to the U.S. ...