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A legal dispute over the right to use a school bathroom is unfolding in Colorado as other states seek to clarify their policies relating to transgender students.

The case of two high school football stars drew wide attention for the way social media spurred the initial prosecution and later helped galvanize national outrage over the episode.

The trial abruptly ended Saturday night after the girl’s testimony, and the juvenile court judge who is hearing the case said he would issue a verdict at 10 a.m. on Sunday.

Dan Patrick, the Texas Senate education chairman, has plans to expand the state’s charter school system, but they will have to pass a Legislature that defeated more modest proposals just two years ago.

Most low-income students who have top test scores and grades do not even apply to the nation’s best colleges, which contributes to widening economic inequality, economists say.

Seeking better results, the city divided Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the Bronx into nine theme-based institutions; today the Stevenson Campus has the most schools under one roof anywhere in the city.

The faculty of New York University’s largest college this week handed an embarrassing setback to John Sexton, the university’s president.

Peng Shi, a 24-year-old M.I.T. doctoral student, has proposed assigning public school students without setting up geographical zones.

Conflict over governing the University of Virginia has become a proxy war in a much larger struggle over control of the nation’s public universities.

A new law, which takes effect in July, will allow students to pray over school intercoms, at assemblies and sporting events.

“I haven’t received my admissions decisions yet,” writes Candice Childress, a student in Las Vegas, “but it’s looking sunny here in the heart of cactus country.”

Laura Perna, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a researcher in college finance and affordability, is answering select reader questions about paying for college.

The concepts of work and play have become farcically reversed: schoolwork is meant to be superfun and play, like homework, is meant to teach.

This week: students write six-word stories about athletes; argue their points of view about the difference between bullying and drama; and summarize an article about potable water shortages in a part of India that sees 12 times as much rainfall as Seattle.

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