Ashlee Pepin in her classroom in Petaluma, Calif., last month. Ms. Pepin opted not to teach as an intern while she was still earning her credentials, though many prospective teachers do.
Just a few years after the recession caused widespread layoffs for teachers, school districts now find themselves with numerous job vacancies and few qualified candidates to choose from.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will propose major new spending by the federal government that would help undergraduates pay tuition at public colleges without needing loans.
Deciding on a course of study isn’t a lifelong sentence. It’s a jumping-off point. Most people’s work will shape-shift in unforeseeable ways.
When Nogok Primary closes this spring, it will become one of thousands of schools in the country that have shuttered as industrialization and education draw people to cities.
Even though minorities tended to score poorly on the test, the exam evaluated the skills necessary to do the job, a federal judge said.
Six teenagers who had never been west of Chicago won grants to visit a reserve in Montana, where they met bison and learned how to roast marshmallows.
The new rule will eliminate a statewide exam given last year, and comes amid complaints that public high school students have to take too many tests.
Kathryn DeWitt had put on her Penn Face. But living up to expectations — her own and others’ — was just too much. Dying seemed the only way out. It wasn’t.
At the University at Albany, “yes means yes” is more than policy. It’s the law. How are students incorporating the new code into their sex lives?
Colleges may be caught up in the amenities arms race, but most have a few residence halls that are, well, dumps. The most loathed on their campuses? Indeed, but sometimes also the most loved.
Room and board rates tend to reflect housing quality, but not always.
After several reports of cheating by teachers and administrators in city schools came to light this summer, the education department announced it would create a task force to confront the issue.
The county sheriff in Covington on Tuesday defended a school resource officer who was shown on a video restraining an 8-year-old boy with handcuffs last year.
The federal lawsuit seeks to spotlight the use of handcuffs to restrain young children who act out in school.
Georgetown announced the resignation of the director of its track and field and cross-country programs after two investigations of reports involving allegations of racial bias, hazing and sexual misconduct.
The shooting of Mr. DuBose, a black man, has prompted officials to reconsider a policy that allowed a university force to patrol an area far more complex than its campus.
Responding to a letter, the Education Department plans to investigate whether 39 Jewish schools are providing adequate training in secular subjects.
By helping Success continue its expansion, the gift could add to pressure on the de Blasio administration to find space for the new schools or contribute to their rent.
Brown Scholars, as they are called, have worked on computer languages in concert with projects at the natural history museum.
The officer, Ray Tensing, is accused of killing Mr. Dubose, who was unarmed, during a traffic stop on July 19.
Three former students said a discredited article about a brutal gang rape had a “devastating effect” on their reputations.
Schools that offer accelerated training in digital skills are drawing more and more “career changers,” and graduates can make six-figure base salaries.
Ms. Green’s book is a history of the racial struggles in the 1950s and ’60s of one Virginia community, which closed its public schools rather than integrate them.
The principal, Jeanene Worrell-Breeden of Teachers College Community School, said she had done so because students had not finished the exams, according to a memorandum released Monday.
George Washington University will no longer require most applicants to submit SAT or ACT test scores to be considered for undergraduate admission.
The college had suspended the professorship last year amid claims of sexual assault against the comedian Bill Cosby.
The Education Department invalidated the results of the state exam taken by third graders amid allegations of testing improprieties by the principal of the Teachers College Community School.
The Roman Catholic leader will stop at a religious school attached to a now-closed church some of whose former parishioners now worship in a park nearby.
A prodigy grows up to become one of the greatest mathematicians in the world.
Research suggests that colleges are not unified by teaching standards, and that the real differences are within departments and classrooms.
The minimum wage for university employees and contract workers will go up incrementally over the next two years, university officials said.
A new memoir hopes to further the debate on immigration policy.
Harvard engineering students were assigned the task of creating a technologically sophisticated barbecue smoker that can outperform the best product on the market and sell for less than $1,500.
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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.
New York City parents of current and former Success Academy students describe a learning environment that was a godsend for some children and a grind for others.
Twenty-five years ago, David W. Breneman lamented the shift away from liberal arts in a controversial report. Where are things now?
The visibility of iconography associated with bias and oppression has been a volatile issue on campuses this year.
Snap, yak and stay on track: six smart toys for the essential collegian.
Test your knowledge about higher education’s founders and foundings.
There’s a way to combine an intimate academic environment with a state school’s sweep and socioeconomic diversity. More students should consider it.
But don’t get too excited. It’s the same as the old one.
We used to be mentors and moral authorities. Now we just hand out A’s.
Schools should mandate vision screenings, as they do vaccinations.
Talk about life’s purpose. Don’t give product advice.