Education
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
Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap. By Anemona Hartocollis, Michael C. Bender and Alan Blinder / NYT
Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Troy Closson / NYT
Alpha Kappa Alpha Donates $1.9M To Howard While Unveiling On-Campus Monument. By Kyra Alessandrini / Blavity
I Am on Kirk’s “Professor Watchlist.” I Know How It Destroys Civil Debate. By George Yancey / Truthout
Harvard says Trump officials made factual errors in antisemitism finding. By Susan Svrluga / Wash Post
Trump’s push to eliminate DEI at colleges denies conservatives an opportunity. By David Ramadan / USA Today
Tracking Higher Ed’s Dismantling of DEI. By Erin Gretzinger, et. al. / The Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Officials Place Des Moines Schools Leader On Leave After His Arrest By Immigration Agents. By Scott Mcfetridge / HuffPost
School funding could take a hit in the next federal budget. By Cory Turner / NPR
How Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist reshaped free speech on campus. By Curtis Bunn and Tyler Kingkade / NBC News
‘It’s a capitulation’: Berkeley grieves as its university bends to Trump. By Eric He and Will McCarthy / Politico
Billionaire MacKenzie Scott gifts UNCF $70 million for historically Black colleges and universities. By Arthur Jones II / ABC News
