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The Norwegian parliament approved a formal agreement to allow deep-sea mining in its waters, prompting condemnation from environmental groups.

A residential home for people with autism and severe intellectual and intellectual disabilities can administer controversial electric skin shocks on new patients with court approval, the Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday.

The federal government has launched a civil rights probe into Harvard University’s use of legacy admissions, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday, increasing pressure on universities already grappling with intense backlash to the practice. The disclosure arrived three weeks after a Boston civil rights group filed a complaint with the Education Department over Harvard’s use of legacy ...

More And More Parents Are Taking Their Kids Out Of School And Opting For At-home Education. So, What Has Motivated This Switch?

Mass shootings, pandemics, critical race theory—all provide an opportunity to promote “family values” solutions to a bigger pool of people.

Nearly 15,000 NYC students are home schooling this year, up about 88% since the pandemic hit. The city’s highest poverty districts saw the biggest growth in home school students.

Every time we think we’ve turned a corner, there’s another COVID-19 variant, another set of restrictions.

Here's why it's still too soon to treat COVID-19 as if it were the flu.

During the pandemic, a growing number of families have chosen to home school their children, with an especially large increase in the number of Black home schoolers.

De tre profilerte familiemedlemmene får massiv oppmerksomhet for kontroversielt stunt.