Category: Education

Last week, President Trump signed an executive action to begin dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Last week, when President Trump signed a long-expected executive order dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, it sent shockwaves across the country. Trump instructed Secretary Linda McMahon to “take…

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With the recent extension of the telehealth waivers (until September 30, 2025) to allow services to continue being reimbursed without stringent rural and facility-based requirements, one key distinction deserves attention: Communication Technology-Based Services (CTBS). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) separated CTBS from traditional telehealth in 2019 when they announced through their 2019…

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The campus of Yale University seen in New Haven, Conn. Yale is one of 45 colleges that are under investigation for allegedly engaging in “race-exclusionary practices.” Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg via Getty Images When Leyland Lucas was a Ph.D. student at Rutgers University, there weren’t a lot of…

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The numbers of Americans learning Mandarin Chinese has declined dramatically, but one elementary school in Washington DC is seeing more demand for Chinese language education than ever. STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: When you travel in China – as our team has been doing – you meet a fair number of people who know English. Millions of…

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The federal student loan portfolio – which manages about $1.6 trillion in loans for roughly 43 million borrowers – is currently overseen by the Education Department’s office of Federal Student Aid (FSA). Mario Tama/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images President Trump continued his push to unwind the U.S. Department of Education on…

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Healy Hall, the flagship building of Georgetown University’s main campus in Washington, D.C., is seen in 2011. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge has blocked immigration officials from deporting a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar who was detained by the Trump administration earlier…

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Clotilde Poujade practices French pronunciations with students at École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion school in Terrebonne Parish, La. Aubri Juhasz/WWNO hide caption toggle caption Aubri Juhasz/WWNO Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. One card has a picture of…

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Math teacher Diane Laney hard at work in her third-grade classroom at Ider High school, which serves grades K-12. Students use counters to help model multiplication. Charity Rachelle for NPR hide caption toggle caption Charity Rachelle for NPR In DeKalb County, Ala., elementary school math classes have gotten noisy. In a good way. Instead of…

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Federal law guarantees students with disabilities access to an appropriate public education but it often falls to a family to make sure a child gets the most effective schooling. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Students with disabilities have a legal right to a public education that meets their needs. It’s an issue so important to families that…

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How might layoffs at the Department of Education affect its core functions? NPR speaks with education scholar Beth Akers, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: The U.S. Department of Education says that despite laying off nearly half its staff, it will continue to deliver all the programs that are protected…

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