Education

Students return to North Carolina schools after Helene closures

Kids are slowly returning to schools in western North Carolina, after being off following the devastation from the remnants of Hurricane Helene, but they may not be in their old school building.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Toxic wasteland to ecological champion

A nominee for North Carolina's schools chief has a track record of conspiracy theories

The Republican candidate for superintendent of schools in North Carolina calls schools "indoctrination centers" and has a shot at a victory.

Educators are working to bring Indigenous perspectives into classrooms

Indigenous People's Day is becoming a more widely recognized holiday around the country. Two educators share how they approach teaching people about the significance of the day.

'You're not alone:' A teen podcaster sends message to kids with incarcerated parents

Eden Alonso-Rivera of Grandville, Mich. is the high school winner of NPR's Student Podcast Challenge. Her winning entry, "A Relationship Behind Bars," is about her father's incarceration.

Students working to fill gaps in child brain development research

The functional near-infrared spectroscopy cap, or fNIRS cap, is used to study the brain activity of children. But it has limits.

Why Oklahoma's top public education official aims to bring bibles into classrooms

Oklahoma's top education official has made headlines for mandating Bibles in each classroom but once upon a time he was a high school teacher who enjoyed dissecting racy HBO dramas with students.

Some students are fighting to stay in college after the FAFSA delayed financial aid

Students had to make all kinds of decisions about college before knowing how much financial aid they would get. Now, some are scrambling to stay in school.

Creating a pipeline for health care workers

There's a shortage of healthcare workers in the U.S. and school systems are coming up with creative ways to interest students in becoming medical professionals.