Third grade students participate in class at Highland Elementary School in Las Cruces, N.M., in the spring. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Education We've been to school. We know how education works. Right? In fact, many aspects of learning — in homes, at schools, at work and elsewhere — are evolving rapidly, along with our understanding of learning. Join us as we explore how learning happens.
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Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill., is prepared to help students isolate if they test positive for monkeypox. Courtesy of Lake Forest College hide caption
Students at Pasadena City College, in Pasadena, Calif., participate in a graduation ceremony in 2019. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the George Washington University law school received calls to drop Justice Clarence Thomas and cancel the seminar he taught. Erin Schaff, The New York Times /AP hide caption
The share of Americans who believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country has declined since 2020, according to recent survey. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Brandie Diamond describes herself as a "transgender truck driver/chef/Jill-of-all-trades." But her career in trucking began in the mid-1980s, and she hadn't come out as trans back then. Meg Vogel for NPR hide caption
Harry Styles performs at a Tiny Desk Concert in 2020. He'll soon be the subject of a course at Texas State University. Max Posner/NPR hide caption
200k student borrowers are closer to getting their loans erased after judge's ruling
From 2011, at an Occupy DC protest in Washington. A man holds a sign and a ball and chain, representing his college loan debt. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Jacquelyn Martin/ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
Statue of Denmark Vesey at Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C. Formerly enslaved, Vesey bought his freedom with money he was allowed to earn and winnings from a lottery ticket, and he planned an insurrection to kill slaveholders and free Black people on July 14, 1822. Victoria Hansen/ SC Public Radio hide caption
Denmark Vesey is honored. His slave revolt was thwarted and he was executed
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The future of abortion remains highly uncertain in Michigan. At the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, the student health center has been preparing for all possible scenarios, from a complete statewide ban on abortion to less extreme changes. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption
Colleges navigate confusing legal landscapes as new abortion laws take effect
A Dallas Independent School District bus departs L.L. Hotchkiss Elementary school after dropping off students, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, in Dallas. Tony Gutierrez/AP hide caption
Andrew Delbanco, professor of American Studies at Columbia University, will deliver the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Michaelangelo's Photography hide caption
The U.S. student population is more diverse, but schools are still highly segregated
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference at Crooms Academy of Information Technology in Sanford to discuss Florida's civics education initiative of unbiased history teachings. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe listens to a math teacher at a tutoring center in Kabul. The center was established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school. The activist said she has informal permission by Taliban authorities to run the center as long as teenage girls abide by a strict dress code. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
Secret schools enable Afghanistan's teen girls to skirt Taliban's education ban
School Colors Bonus: "Ms. Mitchell's Pandemic Diary" Cassandra Giraldo hide caption
Biden acknowledges U.S. soccer player Megan Rapinoe before presenting her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A family walks towards Rochdale Village housing co-op and complex in Queens on April 28, 2022. (NPR/Cassandra Geraldo) Cassandra Giraldo /Cassandra Giraldo hide caption
Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo (left) attends a news conference outside of the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26. Dario Lopez-Mills/AP hide caption
Arnulfo Reyes' sense of humor breaks through even in the darkest of times. /Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District hide caption