Education
New moves to dismantle the Education Department raise legal questions. By Cory Turner / NPR
Trump’s Anti-Affordability Agenda Has a New Target: College. By Perry Bacon / TNR
Jay-Z’s Foundation Transforms College Access Through Family Support. By Jamal Watson / The Eduledger
Are Black Women Still The ‘Most Educated’ Group In America? By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
MacKenzie Scott Channels Over $700 Million to HBCUs in Historic Giving Spree. By Walter Hudson / Eduledger
Universities Said Black Lives Mattered In 2020. Texas A&M Just Proved They Didn’t Mean It. By Stacey Patton / Newsone
Judge indefinitely bars Trump from fining UC over alleged discrimination. By AP and NPR
DEI Rollbacks Are Eroding First-Generation, Low-Income Student Supports. By Sena Ho / The Progressive Magazine
Charlie Kirk’s Group Wants to Grow. Its Latest Target: Black Colleges. By Jasper Smith / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
In a basement at Howard University, scholars work to preserve Black newspapers. By Ira Porter and Cameron Pugh / CSM
House Republicans say a Virginia college president lied to Congress over DEI. By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff / Wash Post
Priced Out Of The Mecca: The Emotional Cost Of Belonging At A Black University In A White City. By Duwayne Portis / Newsone
An anti-KKK law was used to end a scholarship for Black students. By Anumita Kaur and Praveena Somasundaram / Wash Post
Public schools nationwide adopt growing oppression-focused history curriculum. By Peter D’Abrosca / Fox News
California’s Race-Neutral Strategies Offer Blueprint for Expanding College Access. By Jamal Watson / The Eduledger
Elite Colleges Grow a Spine and Reject Trump’s Authoritarian “Compact.” By Perry Bacon / TNR
Black Student Enrollment Plummets Across South as Federal Pell Grant Funding Drops $10 Billion. By Jamal Watson / The Eduledger
America is sliding toward illiteracy. By Idrees Kahloon / The Atlantic Online
MacKenzie Scott Gave More Than $500M to Historically Black Colleges. Here’s How the Donations Made an Impact. By Jillian Frankel / People
How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught. By Dana Goldstein / NYT
Black, Latino and international student enrollments drop at Harvard. By Todd Wallack and Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
Oklahoma Is Ground Zero in Trump’s “America First” Education Push. By Jennifer Smith Richards / Propublica
Six States Lead Nation in Anti-DEI Legislative Push, New Report Finds. By Jamal Watson / The EduLedger
Inside the Trump Administration’s Assault on Higher Education. By Emma Green / The New Yorker
Community colleges are losing millions in funding under Trump. By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Wash Post
MacKenzie Scott Gifts Another $63 Million to Morgan State. By Nahlah Abdur-Rahman / Black Enterprise
Viewpoint Diversity Is a MAGA Plot. By Lisa Siraganian / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Campus Civics Centers Are Getting Millions From Trump. Here’s What They’ll Use It For. By Aisha Baiocchi / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. by Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards / Propublica
Tribal colleges and universities aren’t well known, but are a crucial steppingstone for Native students. By Cynthia Lindquist / The Conversation
