Education

Middle school is almost over for the Class Of 2025 -- high school is next. An update on 8th grade, and a look to the future.

College enrollment is declining across Oregon. Community colleges have been hit the hardest, with an overall 23% enrollment decline, compared to a 3.8% decline across all institutions. This could spell lasting consequences for both the colleges and students.

The Lake Oswego teachers union says three-quarters of surveyed members want a vaccine or health indicators to support reopening before they'll go back.

Leaders representing teachers in Oregon’s five largest school districts asked Gov. Kate Brown to base reopening decisions on “science and data, not politics and wishful thinking.”

Bend-La Pine is one of Oregon's largest districts to resume in-person instruction on a large scale.

For two Black students in the Class Of 2025, learning at home has been better than getting an education in-person.

More than 10,000 students are enrolled across the Evergreen district in grades that could be eligible. But the plan is will likely face pushback from the district's teachers union.

Oregon State University researchers in Bend are looking into why different demographic groups have specific beliefs about the coronavirus pandemic. Both the city and Deschutes County are hoping to use that research to better tailor public health messaging to people in Central Oregon.

We Can Do The Work and Disarm OSU — campaigns organized by OSU students, faculty, staff and community members — have been rallying against the formation of a new police department since the university announced its intention to create one last April. The groups are instead advocating for funding to campus services.

When it comes to middle school, male students tend to have a harder time than female students. Why?