$1 Billion Bloomberg Gift to Hopkins Makes Tuition Free for Most Medical Students
A $1 billion gift from Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins University, announced on Monday, will allow most students at the university’s medical school to attend free of cost and will also increase financial aid for other students in the university’s schools of nursing and public health and other graduate programs. Bloomberg Philanthropies, More...
Opinion | To Save Life on Earth, Bring Back Taxonomy
In 2009, the botanist Naomi Fraga was hunting a flower without a name near Carson City, Nev. Ms. Fraga saw that the plant was going extinct in real time as its desert valley habitat was bulldozed to make way More...
Opinion | Notes From a Formerly Unpromising Young Person
What ultimately saved me was the willingness of one man, who happened to be a college-admissions officer, to see me as a person — not as a subpar transcript or a series of boxes left unticked but as a complicated More...
Opinion | Your Religious Values Are Not American Values
Whenever a politician cites “Judeo-Christian values,” I find it’s generally followed by something unsettling. Last month brought two flagrant instances. In both cases, Republican officials introduced More...
Lawsuit Challenges Affirmative Action in Hiring at Northwestern Law School
A conservative group filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University’s law school on Tuesday, claiming that its attempts to hire more women and people of color as faculty members violate federal law prohibiting More...
A Reporter’s Unlikely Path From a Wisconsin Jail to Journalism
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. I never expected to become a real reporter. While the other students in my first More...
A.I. Chatbot for Los Angeles Schools Falls Flat
An A.I. platform named Ed was supposed to be an “educational friend” to half a million students in Los Angeles public schools. In typed chats, Ed would direct students toward academic and mental health More...
Harvard’s Antisemitism and Anti-Muslim Task Forces Find Climate of Bias
Harvard’s task forces on antisemitism and anti-Muslim bias each found a climate of discrimination and harassment on campus, writing in preliminary reports released on Wednesday that the situation for pro-Israel More...
Opinion | A Migrant Family Survives Shelter Evictions With the Help of a School
Two of Ms. Ocasio’s daughters attended P.S. 46 this year: Junie, in first grade, and Olive, in kindergarten. The new students were their classmates, which Junie pointed out on their walk home one day when More...
Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible
Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in an extraordinary move that blurs the lines between religious instruction and More...
