Central High School’s approach reflects view of many educators that students should be given leeway during a terrible time. Some teachers worry the no-F mandate goes too far.

The Seattle school district has unveiled a new curriculum that combines math and social justice. In Oct. 2019, Seattle Public Schools proposed the non-mandatory ethnic studies instructional framework, which would infuse mathematics with anti-racist theory, EducationWeek reported. Under the new framework, students as young as kindergarteners would learn how math has been “appropriated” by oppressors […]

Oregon SB 744, which was just signed into law, suspends the graduation requirements for all high school students in Oregon to ensure the standards are sufficiently equitable.

At the close of the 2020-21, women accounted for 59.5% of college students, a record high, and men 40.5%, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research group. U.S. colleges and universities had 1.5 million fewer students compared with five years ago, and men accounted for 71% of the decline.