Some educators, parents and students say Covid stunted their education and careers, while others were derailed temporarily but found new careers or a sense of purpose.

Roughly five years have passed since schools shut down and turned to remote learning in the United States — but the pandemic’s toll on education lingers. Students are still behind where they would ...

Federal layoffs that included workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau short-circuited work to help student loan ...

DOGE staffers have not publicly disclosed how they decided which data to cut and which to preserve. Indeed, neither DOGE nor the Education Department has yet to disclose or confirm a list of the cuts.

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of ...

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Hancy Maxis spent 17 years incarcerated in New York prisons. He knew that he needed to have a plan for when he got out. This story also appeared in Working Nation “Once I am back in New York City, ...

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