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- P.M. Forni, Who Argued for ‘Choosing Civility,’ Dies at 67 December 7, 2018In two books he wrote about rudeness and how to avoid it. He also started a program to encourage the practice of good manners.NEIL GENZLINGER
- For-Profit College Chain Closes, Shutting Out Nearly 20,000 Students December 7, 2018Education Corporation of America ran more than 70 campuses across the country before closing schools this week after it lost its accreditation.STACY COWLEY
- A Ban on Parents in the School Lunchroom? Everyone Seems to Have an Opinion December 6, 2018What began as a small debate in a wealthy Connecticut town erupted into a controversy over when Mom and Dad should let go.KRISTIN HUSSEY and LIZ ROBBINS
- Lego Foundation and Sesame Street Team Up to Help Refugee Children December 5, 2018A $100 million grant from the Lego Foundation will allow Sesame Workshop and aid groups to develop education programs for Syrian and Rohingya children.KAREN ZRAICK
- Do Children Get a Subpar Education in Yeshivas? New York Says It Will Finally Find Out December 4, 2018Some students graduate from the ultra-Orthodox schools barely knowing how to read and write in English. New rules could force the schools to change how they operate.ELIZA SHAPIRO
- Princeton Singers Abandon a ‘Little Mermaid’ Song Over Kissing Concerns December 3, 2018A column in the campus paper called the song, “Kiss the Girl,” and the a cappella group’s tradition of bringing people onstage to kiss “misogynistic.”SOPAN DEB
- In a Divided Bosnia, Segregated Schools Persist December 2, 2018Ethnic tensions are worsening in Bosnia two decades after a bloody, bitter war. The divide is most obvious inside the country’s segregated schools.BARBARA SURK
- Louisiana School Made Headlines for Sending Black Kids to Elite Colleges. Here’s the Reality. November 30, 2018T.M. Landry, a school in small-town Louisiana, has garnered national attention for vaulting its underprivileged black students to elite colleges. But the school cut corners and doctored college applications.ERICA L. GREEN, KATIE BENNER and ANNIE FLANAGAN
- Books News: Hollywood Has Long Turned to Novelists for Help. But Poets? November 23, 2018For “The Kindergarten Teacher,” a movie about poetic inspiration starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, the filmmakers hired real poets to write verses for the characters.ALEXANDRA ALTER
- Texas Students Will Now Learn That Slavery Was ‘Central’ to the Civil War November 21, 2018The new educational standards also retained mentions of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller, after there was talk of removing them. Critics say the changes don’t go far enough.JACEY FORTIN