Education

Germany’s ability to combat extremism has been praised. But it's also being tested. Does it still offer lessons for the U.S. following the Capitol riot?

The school board voted 4-3 to close a smaller list of schools than it considered late last year.

St. Louis Public Schools parents will learn Tuesday evening if efforts over the past month to save 11 schools in the city from closing were successful.

Several first-year teachers are documenting the start of their career as educators in audio diaries for St. Louis Public Radio.

Vandals spray-painted racist messages on the outside of three Kirkwood schools Wednesday, the latest in a string of racial incidents in recent years in St. Louis County school districts.

Colleges and universities in the St. Louis area tried to adapt the college experience to make it resemble a normal school year during a pandemic. But not everything was easily replicated.

Public colleges and universities were already making do with fewer students and less state aid before the pandemic. Both of those dropped faster than expected in 2020.

More St. Louis-area high school students will have the opportunity after the holiday break to learn from inside a classroom instead of their homes.

The Leadership School won a charter from a divided state school board Thursday and plans to open as an elementary school in north St. Louis County next fall. It will be located somewhere within the boundaries of the provisionally accredited Normandy school district.

With both traditional high school and college experiences upended by the pandemic, high school seniors are reconsidering where to apply for college this fall. And those who are still charging forward with ambitious college plans are doing so without the resume they had hoped would win over admissions officers.