Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?

Senior House was a haven for creative outsiders. In a move that is being echoed on campuses around the country, administrators said it was dangerous and shut it down.

They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?

What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.

On affirmative action at the University of Texas, the essence of privilege, and getting what you deserve.

This job—writing college essays for Abigail Fishers—was the only job I have ever been truly ashamed of, and I am so ashamed of it now that it hurts.

Theresa Buchanan, a professor at LSU, “used the f-word in class, overshared about her personal life, and could be brutally candid in her critiques of the student teachers under her tutelage.” Should she have been fired?

A story of maps, travels, and (un)couplings.

Science work, youth, and middle aged troubles.

A profile of America’s new education secretary.

On Alaska’s North Slope, village schools aim to blend book learning with the Arctic reality.

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

On the public schools of Detroit.

The downfall of a Jesuit school prefect.

How two couples found a way to play the preschool system for profit.

In New York City, every 4-year-old has access to free early education—even those whose families make up the 1 percent.

Childhood lies and truthful, uncomfortable memories.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

An investigation into sexual abuse at elite New England schools.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Corey Arthur made headlines after being arrested and convicted in connection with the 1997 murder of his high school teacher. But the story is much more complicated than that.

On Dec. 18, 2007, the school board in Pinellas Country, Florida, voted to abandon integration. They justified the decision with bold promises: Schools in poor, black neighborhoods would get more money, more staff, more resources. They delivered none of that. A 5-part investigation.

On a thin sliver of land called Rojava where “rules of the neighboring ISIS caliphate ha[ve] been inverted,” a Kurdish Syrian college trains its future autonomous leaders.

Marriage, infidelity, distance, and communications.

Ricky Williams today.

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.