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The first wave of college students returning to their dorms aren’t finding the typical mobs of students and parents. What they found Friday were strict safety protocols and some heightened anxiety amid a global pandemic where virus infections are growing in dozens of states. North Carolina State University staggered the return of its students over 10 days and welcomed the…

The coronavirus is disrupting the education of millions of Americans enrolled career and technical programs in different ways than traditional college students because what they learn is largely hands-on

A group of Boston University students who have been off-campus since early March due to the coronavirus have filed a lawsuit against the school alleging that they were not properly reimbursed for certain fees they already paid for the spring semester. Julia Dutra, a film and television major from New Jersey, is named as the lead plaintiff in the class-action…

Students lost two month of the in-person college experience, plaintiffs allege in a lawsuit against Boston University.

U-Haul is offering one-month of free self-storage to college students forced out of their dorms as universities around the country cancel in-person classes amid fears of the fast-spreading coronavirus.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins and New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan have introduced a bill that would help rural students reach their higher education goals and connect with employment in their hometowns. The bill is called The Success for Rural Students and Communities Act.  The bill would create a demonstration program to encourage rural community stakeholders to partner together to...

Brown University has announced plans to double the number of veterans it enrolls by changing admissions policies, increasing financial support and bolstering recruitment. The Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island announced in a press release on Veterans Day that standardized test scores will be optional for veterans in the admissions process.

Dartmouth College has become the latest university to allow students to easily change their name or gender identity in directories, on identification cards and elsewhere across the Ivy League campus.

At least two people were killed and others were injured in a shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Tuesday. Police said a suspect was taken into custody. This is a developing story.

Hundreds of thousands of students in more than 100 countries skipped school Friday to demand action on climate change. Kids in more than 1,200 cities across the globe are protesting a failure of governments to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The “Friday’s for Future” rallies were one of the biggest international climate change actions yet.

A Boston city councilman is renewing his push for an optional 13th year of school for high school graduates. The Boston Globe reports that researchers say nearly half of Boston students who enter college do not graduate within six years. City Councilor Michael Flaherty says his proposal would help students better prepare for the rigors of college and make Boston’s...

A Maine school district has implemented the state’s first-ever remote school day.

A judge is pressing lawyers to complete their work so that a March or April trial can be scheduled for a Vermont man facing murder charges in a wrong-way highway crash that killed five teenagers in 2016. Steven Bourgoin has pleaded not guilty to five counts of second-degree murder for the interstate crash in Williston, Vermont.

A school bus driver in Atkinson had a medical emergency with five students on board Thursday afternoon. Jesse Silva was waiting for his son to get off the school bus on Maple Avenue in Atkinson, Massachusetts. “It came to a stop. It stopped there and crept forward and then came to a complete stop,” he said.

Former students of the now-closed Mount Ida College filed a class action lawsuit against the school on Monday and accused the institution of fraud, negligence and violating their students’ privacy. The complaint describes the university’s closure as “catastrophic” and says students’ educational careers have been jeopardized. Students were left with discontinued degree programs and lost credits that were unable to...

A suspect accused of crashing a stolen vehicle into a school bus full of kids and stealing a good Samaritan’s vehicle in East Hampton has been located after a police pursuit through multiple towns that ended in a crash in East Windsor Monday.

Editors of the student newspaper at Burlington High School are welcoming an invitation from the Vermont city’s school district to participate in designing new policies around student journalism after young reporters said they were censored last week. “We are excited to work with them to create a new policy, for sure,” Jenna Peterson, one of the co-editors of The Register,...

In its latest push to end the use of race in college admissions, the Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of “engaging in outright racial balancing” and sided with Asian-American students who allege the Ivy League school discriminated against them. Harvard denied the bias claim and said it would defend the right to consider race as a factor in...

Back to school jitters are setting in as New England students prepare for their return, but it doesn’t have to be so nervewracking. Calming your children as they approach a new school year can be done in a matter of ways.

Of all the bills that stalled out during the Massachusetts Legislature’s just-completed formal session, perhaps the one creating the most heartburn is the failure to reach a deal overhauling the state’s 25-year-old education funding system.