"I felt I was wasting my time at school rather than learning," he said. Before the Taliban returned to power five years ago — on August 15, 2021 — Mubariz remembered his public school as friendly and ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Shea Vance of The Chronicle of Higher Education about a University of Michigan plan to forgo letter grades for some freshmen in their fall 2027 semester.

Paula Kerger is navigating arguably the most challenging period of her 20-year tenure at the helm of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which has more than 330 member stations ...

Feng joined NPR in 2019 as a correspondent for the International Desk. Before that she was a Beijing correspondent for the ...

The Trump administration is proposing new standards for Head Start, the nation's early education program for low-income kids. States would have a lot more control, and that has advocates worried.

Reporting stories about kids can be fascinating: how they learn, why play is important, what makes a healthy classroom. But the beat is anything but child's play, as politics weigh heavy.

A federal program about nutrition education is supposed to disappear in a few weeks. That's due to cuts from last year's Republican tax and spending law, and that's even though eating well is a focus ...