Author: Kelsey Myers

On a weekday morning in Abingdon, you might not notice any difference if you stroll along Faringdon Road. The same gates, the same well-kept grounds, and the stone buildings remain in their familiar locations. However, there has been a formal, subtle change that has far-reaching effects outside of this area of Oxfordshire. With effect from the beginning of the new school year, Abingdon School, one of the best boys’ schools in the nation, has partnered with Abingdon Prep School and The Manor Prep to form the Abingdon Schools Group. The May announcement was presented in an ambitious manner. Abingdon School…

When you read about the Peel District School Board these days, you can sense a certain tension that exists just beneath the official announcements and award ceremonies, beneath the happy social media posts about boxing champions and powwows. It’s the kind of conflict that arises in organizations when those in charge of them can no longer agree on their true goals.About 153,000 students from more than 259 schools in Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon are served by the board. There are a lot of kids there. Many parents. There is a lot of faith in a system that is currently publicly…

Like many school disputes these days, it began when a student took out a phone. There was something going on in that classroom that felt wrong enough to record, not to browse or text a friend. That call was made promptly by Noah Carter, a student at Barrington Middle School in Lithia, Florida. He wanted evidence that whatever was happening in front of him was real.He captured an art instructor, later identified by the Hillsborough County School District as Karen Savage, tossing a black baby doll that was suspended from the classroom television while a charger cord was wrapped around…

In Brick Township, New Jersey, Lanes Mill Road is not the type of street that typically makes headlines. It passes by residential blocks and ball fields, as well as the kind of peaceful neighborhoods in Ocean County where children ride their bikes to school because the morning is still cool and the distance is short. That typical road turned into a crime scene at around 6:50 on Tuesday morning. A Brick Memorial High School student was riding a bicycle west on Rhode Island Avenue and passing through a designated crosswalk when he was hit by a fast-moving 2021 BMW heading…

The way institutions vanish has a subtly depressing quality. Instead of protesting or making headlines, a letter was sent home to parents on a Tuesday morning. That’s basically how Henley-on-Thames’ St. Mary’s Prep School, which has been educating kids for almost a century, found out that it would merge with its neighbor before the summer term was even over. Rupert House and St Mary’s Prep’s merger as a private school in Henley is being presented as a workable solution. And perhaps it is. However, it also presents a more unsettling picture of the current state of independent education in England.…

Observing Washington attempt to improve college football has an almost cinematic quality. During press conferences, senators have been muttering about NIL chaos, transfer portal madness, and out-of-control coaching salaries for years, but they have quietly returned to their offices and done nothing. It was therefore difficult to avoid doing a double take when Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell actually sat down together, across party lines, and began drafting actual legislation. For at least two months, the bipartisan Cruz-Cantwell bill has been quietly developing. It is anticipated to address some of the most contentious issues in college athletics, including transfer restrictions,…

On the University of Washington campus in Seattle, a bronze W is covered in a purple sash this week. It is situated beside Denny Hall and the older stone structures that date back before anyone alive can remember, along a path that thousands of students walk every day. It’s merely a feature of the landscape on most mornings. It feels like something else right now, a silent marker in the middle of a campus that is clearly and imperfectly attempting to hold a lot of things at once. One of the oldest universities on the West Coast, the UW was…

Apparently, it all began over dinner. The general outline of a merger started to take shape between the courses as two vice-chancellors sat down together. That’s the version that’s going around among King’s College London employees, who claim to have learned about the plan the morning before it was made public. No discussion. No caution. It was just a story that showed up in their newsfeeds as though it had happened to someone else. Long before most people realized there was a decision to be made, King’s College London and Cranfield University confirmed what had apparently been decided on May…

Observing a student leave an exam room with the knowledge that their work was meaningless is quietly heartbreaking. The paper in front of them felt like it belonged in a completely different course, not because they hadn’t prepared. That’s what transpired in Scotland on the morning of the Higher Maths exam in 2026, and the consequences have been loud, emotional, and genuinely complex. Within days of the exam, over 14,000 people signed a petition. According to the petition, the paper is “poorly worded, inconsistently structured, and out of step with every previous paper.” The word “unrecognisable” appearing in student testimony…

A policy decision that would impact hundreds of thousands of graduate students’ debt loads, career choices, and life trajectories was made somewhere in a congressional office building, and the majority of them most likely were unaware of it until it was finalized. Regulatory rulemaking frequently proceeds in this manner. Until you’re a nursing student trying to figure out how to pay for the next two years of your education, the debate over what constitutes a “professional degree” seems abstract. The Department of Education was mandated to formally define which graduate programs are considered “professional degrees” for the purposes of federal…