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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and KORA Organics CEO Miranda Kerr attend a gala in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 4. The couple surprised graduates of a Los Angeles art school by paying off their student debt.

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr paid off art school graduates' student loans

May 17, 2022
Spiegel and Kerr, who have been married since 2017, gave the commencement speech and got honorary degrees from Otis College of Art and Design. Then they surprised graduates with a gift of their own.
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Race
Delaware State University, a historically Black institution, says the stop and search of a bus transporting members of its women's lacrosse team in Georgia was "constitutionally dubious." Here, the entrance of Delaware State University in Dover, Del., in

Delaware State University to file a complaint with DOJ after bus search incident

May 17, 2022
Tony Allen, Delaware State University's president, says once the complaint is officially filed, it will be made available to the campus community to read.
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Ukraine invasion — explained
Students interact with a teacher during a lesson at Poland's Warsaw Ukrainian School, on Wednesday, May 11, 2022.

This school takes kids from the most traumatized parts of Ukraine — and offers hope

May 17, 2022
Teachers in Warsaw work to address student-held trauma in classrooms after the Polish school system absorbed tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugee students.
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Student Podcast Challenge
Middle school winners Harrison McDonald, Wesley Helmer, Kit Atteberry, and Blake Turley pose with librarian Misti Knight.

These middle school students have a warning about teens and social media

May 16, 2022
A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."
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Education

4 high school students talk mental health and how the pandemic changed them

May 14, 2022
After two years of isolation and uncertainty, many American teens are struggling with mental health problems. But they're also discovering themselves — and their own resilience.
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Education
"God gave you a voice. Use it," Elizabeth Bonker told her fellow graduates. "And no, the irony of a nonspeaking autistic encouraging you to use your voice is not lost on me."

A nonspeaking valedictorian with autism gives her college's commencement speech

May 12, 2022
A computer keyboard "unlocked my mind from its silent cage," Elizabeth Bonker told her fellow graduates. She urged them to serve others, citing Rollins College's most famous alum: Fred Rogers.
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National
Cherish Morgan, whose daughter attends Desert Oasis High School, says students and staff don't feel safe as a result of the increased violence and learning is suffering.

Las Vegas struggles with rising violence in schools

May 12, 2022
The nation's fifth largest school district has seen a jump in violent incidents since returning from 15 months of virtual-only classes.
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Race
Stanford University said it found a noose hanging from a tree outside a residence hall and is investigating the incident as a hate crime. In an email to students and staff, university officials said campus safety authorities immediately "removed the noos

Stanford University investigates a noose found in a campus tree as a hate crime

May 10, 2022
The rope used in the incident was allegedly one of several that had been tied to the tree for a performance by a student organization years ago.
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Education
The closure of Lincoln College is a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.

Lincoln College closes after 157 years, blaming COVID-19 and cyberattack disruptions

May 10, 2022
It's a shocking turnaround for a small Illinois college that welcomes first-generation students and qualifies as a predominantly Black institution.
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Education

Some rural schools are dipping into savings to keep up with inflation

May 09, 2022
The rising cost of fuel, energy and food are straining rural school districts' already tight budgets. Many districts fear what continued inflation could mean for programming, upkeep and even staffing.
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Education

Listen up! Here are the finalists of the 2022 Student Podcast Challenge

May 08, 2022
The 2,400 podcast submissions for NPR's contest offer a rare glimpse into the minds of young people.
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Perspective

These are some of our favorite stories from NPR's Student Podcast Challenge

May 08, 2022
This year, finalists in NPR's student podcast challenge asked big questions about hatred and love, identity and belonging.
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Music Features

This educator writes 'anti-narcocorridos' — songs that tell the story of heroes

May 08, 2022
Mexican singer Vivir Quintana talks about her latest song, 'El Corrido de Milo Vela,' which tells the story of one of the many journalists who have been murdered in Mexico for doing their jobs.
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Education

Beware, new student loan borrowers: Interest rates are about to jump

May 06, 2022
Student loan interest rates reset every May. This year, they're on the rise.
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Education
New research could prompt schools to reexamine their investment in Reading Recovery, one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs.

A popular program for teaching kids to read just took another hit to its credibility

May 05, 2022
Reading Recovery is one of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs for young children. A new study questions its long-term impact.
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Goats and Soda
Afghan girls and women and girls protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Kabul on March 26, 2022, demanding that high schools be reopened for girls.

Afghans who want teen girls back in school have new allies: Taliban-affiliated clerics

May 05, 2022
For 9 months, teen girls have been pretty much unable to go to school. Protests have been shut down. Now clerics — including some affiliated with the Taliban – are urging an end to the school ban.
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National
The University of Southern California has settled lawsuits with 80 former students, mostly gay and bisexual men, who accuse a male former school doctor of sexual misconduct. The agreement for an undisclosed sum follows settlements by the Los Angeles scho

USC settles lawsuits with 80 men who say a former school doctor sexually abused them

Apr 30, 2022
Attorneys for the alleged victims say the cases date back to as early as 1997, with the latest occurring in 2018. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
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Shots - Health News
J.R. Chester, an advocate with the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, says she hopes the state's updated sex education curriculum will lead to more open conversation between parents and kids.

Texas got a sex ed update, but students and educators say there's still a lot missing

Apr 30, 2022
The last time Texas updated its sex education curriculum, was in the '90s. Students will now learn about contraception and STIs — but not gender or consent. And the classes are all optional.
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TED Radio Hour

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: The ongoing fight to educate Afghan girls

Apr 29, 2022
In 2016, Shabana Basij-Rasikh created Afghanistan's School of Leadership for girls. When the Taliban took control in 2021, she helped her students flee and continued their education abroad.
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Education

The education culture war is raging. But for most parents, it's background noise

Apr 29, 2022
By wide margins, parents across the political spectrum are satisfied with how their children's schools teach about race, gender and history. That's according to a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos.
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Education
A teacher walks through an empty classroom at Hazelwood Elementary School in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 11.

How social-emotional learning became a target for Ron DeSantis and conservatives

Apr 28, 2022
Florida officials recently rejected a slew of math textbooks, claiming they included "prohibited topics." Journalist Dana Goldstein theorizes the objections related to social-emotional learning.
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Education
Students make their way through the Sather Gate near Sproul Plaza on the University of California, Berkeley, campus on March 29 in Berkeley, Calif.

University of California will waive tuition and fees for many Native American students

Apr 28, 2022
The program applies to undergraduate and graduate students who are members of federally recognized Native American, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and will begin in the fall.
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National

Harvard University has committed $100 million to redress its early ties to slavery

Apr 26, 2022
Harvard University has committed $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. The University says the wealth used to found the school came from wealthy slave owners.
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Education
Students attend a pre-K class at P.S. 124 in New York City on Jan 13, 2021. A new report found enrollment drops at state-based preschool programs during the 2020-2021 school year.

The pandemic erased a decade of public preschool gains

Apr 26, 2022
An annual review of state-based preschool programs found big drops in enrollment and state funding in the 2020-2021 school year.
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Law
Among the books banned in Llano County, Texas, public libraries were: Robie H. Harris's <em data-stringify-type="italic">It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health</em>; Isabel Wilkerson's <em data-stringify-type="italic">

In a lawsuit, a group of Texas library patrons says a book ban amounts to censorship

Apr 26, 2022
Llano County officials said they wanted to remove "pornographic" material from libraries but actually censored books based on political and religious grounds, the library patrons' lawsuit says.

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