Education

In adding caste, a system of social stratification used mainly in India, Brandeis becomes the first U.S. university to implement the change.

Education reformers praised the bill for promising to inject $1.5 billion into the state’s schools, but the funding for the bill is expected to come from future tax revenues and the hope that the legislature continues to allocate funding for schools in future budgets.

Given today's fraught politics, what school would want the headache of trying to adopt a spirit song?

The bill comes as the U.S. Department of Education is nearing the end of a lengthy rule-making process to revise rules that govern how universities that receive federal funding handle sexual assault.

Students and advocacy groups want the University of California system to drop the test requirement. They argue the policy "illegally discriminates against applicants on the basis of race and wealth."

Colleges in the Northeast and Midwest have been experiencing an enrollment crunch as the numbers of high school graduates in both regions are declining.

Superintendent Brenda Cassellius joined Boston Public Radio to discuss the state of Boston Public Schools.

Paul Reville: The state legislature did its job. Now it's up to local school districts to do theirs.

Hundreds of thousands of borrowers are eligible to have their student loans erased because a disability keeps them from working. NPR found many will likely never get the debt relief they're owed.

Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday plans to sign into law a sweeping overhaul of the state's school finance system.