Education
Follow news about education and Stanford's efforts to advance learning outcomes.
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Redwood City School District and Stanford Highlight Mental Health Collaboration at Stanford Symposium
In Redwood City, the journey toward student well-being doesn’t stop at the classroom door—it extends into clinics, universities, and communities.
October 17, 2025
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Embedding Ethics in Design Education
Through a cross-campus partnership, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Stanford d.school help students apply ethical reasoning to real-world design challenges
June 10, 2025
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Foothill College and Stanford create online class on computer coding for community colleges
The new Foothill course draws on the platform and personal teaching model used in Code in Place, a popular global course launched by Stanford faculty during the pandemic
June 10, 2025
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Cardinal Course blends urban planning with public service
URBANST 164: Sustainable Cities pairs students with Bay Area organizations on projects ranging from affordable housing to climate adaptation.
June 02, 2025
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Fellowship centers community voices in research on school-to-prison pipeline
Led by Associate Professor Subini Annamma, the FIRE Fellowship involves both surveying formerly incarcerated youth about their experiences and equipping them with research skills.
May 30, 2025
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May 27, 2025
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New AP computer science course drives surge in participation among underrepresented students
Offering a computing concepts course helped quadruple AP computer science exam participation among female, Black, and Hispanic students, a Stanford study finds.
April 10, 2025
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March 25, 2025
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March 20, 2025
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February 19, 2025
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February 18, 2025
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Stanford women's basketball players teach kids data science through sports
Athletes team up with Professor Jo Boaler to create 'Basketball Data Analytics' unit to learn statistics for 9-year-olds and up.
January 30, 2025
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'Secret sauce' makes hybrid Stanford courses engaging to high school students in under-resourced communities
Required for all courses Stanford offers in this space, student teaching fellows make the difference, providing a personal layer of support through varied, robust coaching..
January 17, 2025
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Learners with disabilities benefit from more complex reading instruction
Stanford education scholars Chris Lemons and Lakshmi Balasubramanian share strategies for helping students with intellectual and developmental disabilities learn to read.
January 16, 2025
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Community Engagement Impact Projects announced for 2025
The Office of Community Engagement supports Stanford’s Community Engagement Hubs to deepen research, education and service connections with community partners.
January 16, 2025
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Stanford's Institute for Advancing Just Societies launches new initiatives
“In the social sciences, we’re really good at diagnosing inequity,” co-director Tomás Jiménez said. “What we want to amplify is not only the diagnostics but also the solutions.”
October 31, 2024
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Stanford participates in pathways to college for military vets
Eleven service members came to the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences in summer 2024 for the Warrior-Scholar Project STEM Academic Boot Camp.
August 27, 2024
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Playbook boosts community college efforts to help get students data analysts jobs
With a new publication, Stanford, Google, and the Bay Area Community College Consortium offer a road map for integrating Google Career Certificates into community college education
June 19, 2024
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New gift will help reimagine Native American Studies through a 21st century Indigenous lens
The endowed gift is first of its kind and will enhance ways it can foster Native American scholarship and community-engaged learning.
May 14, 2024
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Code in Place, Stanford’s introductory programming course, offers a new model for large-scale interactive learning
What began as an online class on coding during the pandemic has morphed into an effective model for creating learning opportunities worldwide, outside of a formal classroom.
April 10, 2024