In November 2015, just months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, Mormons took a hard stand for traditional families. Barely more than four years later, the flagship university of the Latter-day Saints relaxed its honor code barring all homosexual conduct.

Sunshine Bible Academy Superintendent and Principal Jason Watson wishes his students had better access to college representatives. The private Christian school in Hand County, S.D., serves 75 students, nearly two-thirds of whom live on campus. The universities within a four- to five-hour driving distance are scattered in different directions, making tours impractical for many families.

“It’s not overly convenient for our students to go on college visits or to have reps from colleges visit us,” Watson said.

As Democratic Party presidential candidates promise to cancel Americans’ $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, President Donald Trump wants to end the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and eliminate subsidized federal loans.

The president has proposed dropping the loan forgiveness program in every budget he’s submitted, including the 2021 fiscal year proposal released last week. Congress has not acted on his recommendation.

Foreign governments could have a much greater influence on elite higher education in the United States than previously reported. The U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday it is investigating Yale and Harvard universities for failing to disclose hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign gifts and contracts. The department has on record more than $6.6 billion of donations from Qatar, China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to U.S. universities and colleges since 1990—but that may be significantly underreported.

Teachers who grade rigorously provide more short- and long-term benefits to their students than lax graders, a new study by the Fordham Institute suggests. Teachers with high grading standards significantly increased their students’ scores on standardized final exams and improved their performances in subsequent classes.

Sending children to school acts as an antidote to the violent extremism of terror groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State. But an estimated 258 million children are unable to go to school, according to the United Nations, putting their futures and the fate of their communities at risk.

One elementary school student came up with a creative way to help his friends. Eight-year-old Keoni Ching made and sold enough custom beaded key chains to pay off all the outstanding school lunch debt at his school, Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Vancouver, Wash. He presented the check on Friday as the school wrapped up its annual Kindness Week.