Two white Africanists publish an article on centering the scholar’s personal experience to help “decolonize” African studies. A call for retraction follows. Read more

The American Bar Association will consider a recommendation to eliminate the standardized test requirement for law school admissions. Read more

Two government advisers claim the subject seems ‘scary’ and ‘hard’, while academics warn of ‘mathematics anxiety’. Would changing a few names really help? Read more

Lincoln College in Illinois will close on May 13, after 157 years of operating. It is a small private college, with most recent enrollment figures of about 1,000. Read more

Personal data for roughly 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in the hack of a widely used online grading and attendance system earlier this year, city Education Department officials said Friday, revealing what could be the largest-ever breach of K-12 student data in the United States. Read more

Pilot program introduced in northeast Ohio will allow students with stranded credits to settle their bills and have their transcripts released. Read more

More than 600 professors from across the nation have signed on to a letter urging their counterparts in the K-12 education system to stop dumbing-down math education, arguing “advancing information technology and American economic competitiveness” is at stake. Read more

Student groups assembled to demand that cops be removed from campus during student welcome event. Read more

The California Community Colleges system is investigating potentially widespread fraud involving fake “bot students” enrolled in active courses in what officials suspect is a scam to obtain financial aid or COVID-19 relief grants.

Cornell University recently announced that it has approved a dual degree program between Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and China’s Peking University. Read more