U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe speaks at a news conference in Miami on Wednesday about a network of nursing school operators, centered in South Florida, who allowed students to buy diplomas without the proper training. D.A. Varela/Miami Herald via AP hide caption
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state rejected the African American studies course because education "is about the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of ideology or the advancement of a political agenda." Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
Not all educators are shying away from artificial intelligence in the classroom. Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pictured, the state is enacting a handful of controversial education measures that are attracting national attention. Octavio Jones/Getty Images hide caption
Sesame Street co-creator Lloyd Morrisett attends the 42nd annual Kennedy Center Honors at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 8, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Morrisett died at 93, Sesame Workshop announced Monday. Greg Allen/Invision/AP hide caption
"People across the country should be concerned that legislators and governors across the country are going to do exactly what Florida is doing," says Florida Sen. Shevrin Jones, pictured here in March 2022. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Under Gov. Ron DeSantis' leadership, Florida has enacted a slew of education rules that limit teaching topics including race, and sexual orientation. Octavio Jones/Getty Images hide caption
Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Nemat Shafik, pictured at a Eurogroup meeting at the EU Council in Brussels on May 16, 2011, will be the first woman to serve as president of Columbia University. Geert Vanden Wijngaert via AP hide caption
Students walk to classes on the Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., in 2021. A student was stabbed on a bus near campus. Darron Cummings/AP hide caption
An office within the University of Southern California's School of Social Work announced it is removing the term "field" from its curriculum. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The temperature data these eighth graders are collecting from various spots around their school playground will be uploaded to a NASA database for climate scientists to use. Mohamed Sadek for NPR hide caption
Author George M. Johnson wrote All Boys Aren't Blue, which is on the American Library Association's list of most banned books. Kaz Fantone/NPR hide caption
Concerns about social media's impact on children and teens have increased in recent years. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
GPTZero in action: The bot correctly detected AI-written text. The writing sample that was submitted? ChatGPT's attempt at "an essay on the ethics of AI plagiarism that could pass a ChatGPT detector tool." GPTZero.me/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Mandy Robek's classroom at Shale Meadows Elementary School in Lewis Center, Ohio. Emma Peaslee/NPR hide caption
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in New York City in April 2015. Kevin Hagen/Getty Images hide caption
Employers are struggling to find young workers to take jobs in the skilled trades. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption
