Education

President Biden released a plan to reopen schools, which includes more funding for Covid-related equipment and accelerating the pace of vaccinations.

The College Board is removing the optional essay from the SAT and doing away with subject tests amid a changing college admissions landscape

School closures have a clear negative impact on children’s health, the United Nations health agency has warned.

Teaching isn’t easy, and different kids learn best in different ways. Here’s how to keep your kids busy, excited and engaged while learning at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Warren Buffett’s longtime friend and business partner Charlie Munger says the “20-slot” rule for success had always been obvious to him “since very early in life. I don’t know why it’s not obvious to many other people.”

One way to help prepare yourself financially during the ongoing economic volatility is to brush up on your financially literacy skills. Here are five free personal finance courses to help you get started.

The silver lining of being stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic is getting to cozy up with a good book. University professors and staff at Harvard, Yale and Columbia share what they’ve reading to pass the time.

Teaching isn’t easy, and different kids learn best in different ways. Here’s how to keep your kids busy, excited and engaged while learning at home during the coronavirus pandemic.

Smart people make not-so-smart decisions all the time. Even legendary billionaire investor Warren Buffett has long said that IQ isn’t the single defining factor to successful outcomes.

No amount of academic courses will each you these valuable lessons about business, money and life.

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a rough year for everyone. To ease your stress, soak in some timeless advice from billionaire investor Mark Cuban.

Rule #5: “Pick a career that may not be your passion, but pays a decent wage.”

Black workers without a college degree have been the most likely to see lives disrupted by Covid-19, and remain most at-risk of securing new jobs.

With the spring semester nearly underway, and Covid cases rising, Georgetown plans to maintain distance learning. That doesn’t sit well with many undergrads.

The U.S. is facing a shortage of construction workers and tradespeople — and the problem will only get worse as more Baby Boomers retire. The shortfall is driven by an American education system that steers students to college and a culture that devalues careers in the trades. And if you think this doesn’t affect you, think again. As the cost...

San Diego County health officials confirmed Wednesday that the COVID-19 variant found in the U.K. and in Colorado was detected in a patient in San Diego.

More than six months after a majority of stay-at-home orders lapsed in states across the U.S., the child-care industry has yet to fully recover.

With early admissions largely decided, high school seniors face a grim reality: The Covid pandemic is making it harder to get into the nation’s top schools.  

CNBC readers offer their hometown pandemic heroes. From vaccine distribution to food insecurity, these local leaders met the crisis with courage and compassion.

In late September New York City reopened public schools with a warning of closure if the city’s COVID-19 positivity rate hit 3%. The New York Times chronicled the journey of Community School 55 in the Bronx and its fight to educate its students during a pandemic.