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Much of higher level education involves reading various stories, books and information. One professor was allegedly fired when one of her long-term assigned readings was questioned by a student who felt "uncomfortable" reading it. The professor is now suing her former employer for her firing. (lechatnoir / Getty Images)

Professor fired over assigned reading

CK Smith
The Republicans' new Education Freedom Tax Credit will siphon money away from public schools that most need it (Celal Güne/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Private school on the public's dime

Glenn Sacks
Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Tax-funded private schools are wild west

Jennifer Smith Richards, Megan O’Matz, Mollie Simon, Jennifer Berry Hawes - ProPublica
The Texas State School Board has included the Bible on a mandatory reading list for students. ((Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Texas Bible mandate could backfire

Amanda Marcotte
Students have always been able to express their faith at school, but new laws in Texas now mandate Christian faith readings and curriculum for all public schools. (plherrera / Getty Images)

Texas to mandate school Bible readings

CK Smith
Why are books so scary? (JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images)

Why not just ban all the books?

Andi Zeisler
Florida's new high school history course presents the nation's founders as opposed to slavery (Getty Images)

Florida sanitizes slavery's history

Chauncey DeVega
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama met for the first time at a Bronx pre-K center to read to the students and highlight their mutual focus on early education policies. (Anadolu / Win McNamee / Getty Images)

Obama & Mamdani read to Bronx pre-K kids

CK Smith
President Trump spoke at a TPUSA event of mostly older supporters to rally young people into showing up for the midterms, amid a legally-questionable push to put TPUSA clubs on high school campuses across the nation. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

Now in classrooms: TPUSA's next frontier

CK Smith
A protest supporting academic freedom at the University of Texas (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

The slow death of academic freedom

Tracy Kuo Lin
First Lady Melania Trump is accompanied at the White House by Figure 03, a humanoid robot during the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Why MAGA fears human teachers

Amanda Marcotte
A student plays with interlocking toys at the Connecticut State University Early Learning Center on March 12, 2025. (Photo by Mark Mirko/Getty Images)

Trump makes child care worse

Beth Kania-Gosche - The Conversation
Student loan borrowers gather near The White House to tell President Biden to cancel student debt on May 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)

Student debt crisis falls hard on women

Nadra Nittle - The 19th
A school bus in Pasadena, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

DOJ flips civil rights law on its head

Russell Payne
A pro-LGBTQ+ demonstrator holds a sign outside a Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) Board of Education meeting on June 20, 2023 in Glendale, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Suburban women flipped school boards

Nadra Nittle - The 19th
Texas librarians have been on the front lines in fighting back against book bans organized by Moms for Liberty (Aaron E. Martinez/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Texas Democrat won because of book bans

Amanda Marcotte
(Photo illustration by Salon / Getty Images / f11photo / Elīna Arāja)

At Yale, things get Orwellian

Zachary Clifton
Prager U founder Dennis Prager, nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host and writer, speaking at the Turning Point High School Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Woke-proofing" comes for schools

Emery Petchauer - The Conversation
Large group of school kids raising their hands to answer the teacher's question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images/skynesher)

Oklahoma pushes "America first" schools

Jennifer Smith Richards - ProPublica
Schoolboy with backpack entering classroom (Getty Images/bymuratdeniz)

Trump's special ed attack riles GOPers

Sara Luterman - The 19th
Schoolboy with backpack entering classroom (Getty Images/bymuratdeniz)

Trump and the end of public schools

Megan O’Matz, Jennifer Smith Richards - ProPublica
A return to writing by hand (Strelciuc Dumitru/Getty Images)

Old-school writing takes on classroom AI

Andi Zeisler
(Maskot/Getty Images)

School lunch debt: A fairy tale

Ashlie D. Stevens
Harvard University (Getty/Pgiam)

Judge: Trump must unfreeze Harvard funds

Alex Galbraith
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