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We asked teachers, professors, a psychiatrist and a technologist for their thoughts, and we heard a range of opinions on one of the most "weirdly divisive" issues in education.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Brooks of The New York Times and Matthew Yglesias of Vox about speeches by John McCain and George W. Bush that railed on, but didn't name, President Trump.

The Learning Assistant Program at the University of Colorado Boulder is producing better science learning from kindergarten through college.

Previewing the 2017 Video Music Awards — which remain MTV's biggest event of the year — and other ways the network hopes to lead the cultural conversation.

Vaccines still do a solid job at warding off hospitalization from omicron. So if you're young and healthy, why get a booster? Scientists explain how boosters help and the best timing to get one.

Stanford physicist Carl Wieman is on a quest to bury the big lecture in favor of evidence-based techniques. But it's not clear higher education is listening.

All the news we couldn't fit anywhere else.

A college student's bill for outpatient knee surgery is a whopper — $96K — but the most mysterious part is a $1,167 charge from a health care provider she didn't even know was in the operating room.

The ambient composer and Brian Eno collaborator died this week at the age of 84 from complications brought on by COVID-19.

Some schools are choosing to be remote-only this fall, while others have already reopened. NPR looks at the science and education issues facing families, states and educators as classes resume.