Julie Metzger
A new approach uses openness and humor to make “The Talk” less dreadful for parents and children alike.
University of Mississippi students, employees and other supporters of Daniel W. Jones criticized the plan to change leaders as wrapped in secrecy and threatening to the future of a place that has often been central to the image of the state.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe is ordering Alcoholic Beverage Control agents to be retrained after an arrest that left a University of Virginia student bloodied and shouting allegations of racism.
A fraternity member expelled from the University of Oklahoma said he was sorry for his role in the videotaped incident and ashamed that he participated.
Use of standardized tests to measure students’ progress, and teachers’ effectiveness, has been found to have unintended consequences.
A spokeswoman for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said that the Dream Act, which would allow high school graduates who are undocumented immigrants to apply for state aid to college, might have to be taken up later.
The pressure Hillary Rodham Clinton faces shows the demands she will have to contend with on a number of divisive domestic issues that flared up during the Obama administration.
The case over a blessing at a public school in Bologna is part of a continuing debate in the country over where exactly the church-state boundary lies.
The announcement came four months after a now-discredited report in Rolling Stone magazine of a gang rape at a fraternity rocked the campus.
Gov. Doug Ducey, a critic of the Common Core, urged state officials to tailor the curriculum to the needs of Arizona students.
The decision to shutter the college, a women’s liberal arts school in Virginia, has stunned students, teachers and alumnae, some of whom are rallying to try to save it.
The Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act would place constraints on how education technology companies use or disclose students’ personal information.
The magazine’s managing editor said the review of an article they published in November would be made public “in the next couple of weeks.”
A state appellate court has suggested that it might block a school financing plan that lawmakers passed; Republican leaders say the court is overstepping its bounds.
Officials at the elite, private Oxbridge Academy say its polo team will serve as a democratizer, uniting children of different economic backgrounds.
A $1 trillion portfolio threatens taxpayers because the Education Department can’t properly analyze its loans and doesn’t let other agencies do so.
A rewrite could collapse in partisan disarray. But it could also herald a new era of education, keeping some testing but eliminating prescriptive punishments.
About 600 high school students in eastern India were expelled this week for cheating on pressure-packed 10th-grade examinations, education authorities said Friday.
The digital world is booming with resources to help people who want to become comic book professionals, learn the tools of the trade or improve their craft.
Schools, museums and some entrepreneurial individuals are experimenting with ways to teach art techniques online.
Many law school deans have begun to openly question the mechanics of the test, and some states are even exploring other options.
The dumbing down of America? Not quite. Consider the academization of leisure: casual learning propelled by web culture, a shifting economy and boomers with money.
The transformation of George Washington from humble commuter school into nationally known university has served as a model for other striving campuses. The direction: up!
Hundreds of program providers have seized on a growing interest in interning abroad, adding numerous bells and whistles that cost students.
Eighteen years old and looking for the “next extraordinary” in Bolivia: one intern’s cautionary tale.
Mock applications at age 6, campus tours at 10. More and more elementary schools are introducing college awareness. Is it ever too early to plan for the future?
M.B.A. programs, long bastions of male dominance and conservatism, face a gender-identity challenge.
Rocko Gieselman goes by the pronoun “they.” Acknowledging the next step in identity politics, the University of Vermont has agreed to use it.
Universities, rather than being forums for free expression, are encouraging “safe spaces” to protect delicate sensibilities.