The Georgia Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission is offering assistance for Virginia College students who want to complete their educational programs or receive a tuition refund for programs not yet attended at the for-profit school that said it was closing this month. More...

Obama-era guidance meant to curb racial disparities in school discipline is officially on the chopping block after the school safety commission Education Secretary Betsy DeVos led recommended she rescind it. More...

The student government association president of an historically Black college in Jefferson, Mo., was killed last Tuesday in an off-campus incident. More...

Students at several Alabama universities will get a chance to show off their engineering skills — and see their products go to space. More...

Several hours after the story appeared, I found myself working with the author to update it to include the shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that took place that afternoon.
The shooting touched off unprecedented nationwide protests by students who called for greater gun control and worried aloud: “Am I next?”For scholars writing for The Conversation, the school shooting spurred some debate into what it takes to make a school safe. Not all of the scholars saw eye to eye. More...