Education

Summer: Time for innovation, not rest

Students keep learning, teachers try out new programs

August 20, 2013 • Philip Elliott

Education

New tests tough for New York students

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and others did their best to calm edgy New York parents and tell others…

August 20, 2013 • Carolyn Thompson

Education

Massive online classes: What it’s like to enroll

courses offer opportunity, if you can finish

August 20, 2013 • JUSTIN POPE

Education

Aerospace team shines at finals

students earn multiple honors at top competition

August 20, 2013 • Herald Staff Report

Education

College students end up with more bills than just tuition

The price of housing and food trumps tuition costs for students who attend two- and four-year public universities in their…

August 13, 2013 • Philip Elliott

Education

School can’t ban ‘boobies’ bracelets

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also concluded that school officials didn’t prove the bracelets were disruptive. “Because the…

August 6, 2013 • Maryclaire Dale

Education

6 apps to help students manage life at college

Here are just some of the apps you may find yourself using in your four years at school. The best…

August 6, 2013 • by Emily Maas

Education

High achievers choose colleges farther from home

The higher students score on a standardized college entrance exam, the more distance they may put between home and their…

July 30, 2013 • Mary Beth Marklein

Education

Schools lose taste for candy fundraisers

bags, artwork, events now used to raise money

July 23, 2013 • Beth J. Harpaz

Education

Colleges lure students back to finish degrees

Helping those who have done the work get their diplomas

July 16, 2013 • Alan Scher Zagier

Education

Health-care plan unites conservative students

Opposition to federal law is growing at graduate schools

July 9, 2013 • Alan Scher Zagier

Education

Minority, poor children gain from charters

used data from most schools

July 2, 2013 • Carolyn Thompson

Education

Even for students who dropout, college pays

increments of additional education help raise earnings

July 2, 2013 • JUSTIN POPE

Education

U.S. education spending tops global list, study reveals

Despite the spending, U.S. students still trail their rivals on international tests. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development –…

July 2, 2013 • Philip Elliott

Education

Judge allows yoga in public schools

California parents said classes were promoting religion

July 2, 2013 • Elliot Spagat

Education

Post-recession, higher ed paths diverge

Specialization becomes focus in U.S.; liberal arts rise elsewhere

June 25, 2013 • JUSTIN POPE and DIDI TANG

Education

Class, not race, may be colleges’ new test

Supreme Court ruling against racial preferences could shift focus

June 18, 2013 • JUSTIN POPE

Education

Old Detroit schools reborn

schools close, cities find new purposes for vacant buildings

June 11, 2013 • Corey Williams

Education

Service allows students to report bullying by text

A leading education technology company last week announced it would give schools a free and confidential way for students to…

June 4, 2013 • Philip Elliott

Education

Good idea? Schools ask students to bring their own technology

Officials at the schools say the students’ own devices are the simplest way to access a new generation of learning…

May 28, 2013 • MATT RICHTEL

Education

Our classmate, the robot

N.Y. student with life-threatening allergies attends school remotely

May 28, 2013 • Carolyn Thompson

Education

College enrollment falls as more return to work

The biggest drops occurred among adult learners attending for-profit colleges and public community colleges, which are most likely to enroll…

May 28, 2013 • Mary Beth Marklein

Education

India’s poor attend school under bridge

railway, students study everything from writing to geometry

May 21, 2013 • Ravi Nessman

Education

Gap year worth wait

Students can arrive at college more focused, mature

May 13, 2013 • Jens Manuel Krogstad