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Students using an interactive whiteboard, part of an ambitious technology plan in the Kyrene School District in Arizona.
Schools are embracing digital learning, but evidence is scarce that the expensive technology is improving educational outcomes.
Audio: What Will School Look Like in 10 Years?AFTER CURFEW
Students Find Ways to Thwart Facebook Bans
By JENNIFER CONLIN
Web sites show students how to get around schools’ site-blocking software.
Teachers Lament Loss of School-Supply Funds
By JESSICA CAMPBELL
The program allowed teachers to be reimbursed for up to $110 for purchases for their classrooms.
Interim Dean of Columbia College Is Named in Aftermath of Criticism
By SARAH MASLIN NIR
The appointment came after criticism in the wake of the recent resignations of two important administrators.
Before the First School Bell, Teachers in Bronx Make House Calls
By FERNANDA SANTOS
A month before school started, a group of teachers from a South Bronx school canvassed poor immigrant neighborhoods to meet students and their families on their own turf.
How Are You Preparing for the First Day of School?
California Professor Leads a Methamphetamine Ring, the Police Say
By REBECCA FAIRLEY RANEY and JENNIFER MEDINA
A professor of kinesiology at California State University, San Bernardino, is suspected of supplying methamphetamine to dealers.
A Little Give in the Dress Code
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
Schools are incorporating more stylish clothes into their dress codes, and retailers have been happily catering to the changes.
At Columbia, Faith of Some in President Is Shaken
By ALAN SCHWARZ
The recent resignations of two high-ranking black administrators have tested some faculty members’ confidence in Lee C. Bollinger.
Generation Limbo: Waiting It Out
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
The Limbo Generation, college graduates who entered the job market after the economic downturn, take dead-end jobs while waiting to start their real careers. And waiting. And waiting.
Bullying Law Puts New Jersey Schools on Spot
By WINNIE HU
The Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, considered the toughest legislation against bullying in the nation, was propelled by public outcry over the suicide of a Rutgers University freshman last year.
Kansas City School District Loses Leader Who Began Turnaround Effort
By A. G. SULZBERGER
Superintendent John Covington abruptly resigned after accepting a job to help improve Michigan’s failing schools.
Subsidiary of News Corp. Loses Deal With State
By SHARON OTTERMAN
The New York State comptroller’s office has rejected a $27 million deal with Wireless Generation, as fallout widens against News Corporation due to a phone hacking scandal in Britain.
PERSONAL HEALTH
Smart Choices to Ensure Safety at Lunch
By JANE E. BRODY
In the morning rush for school, it is easy for parents to overlook the dangers that can come with a packed lunch.
ON EDUCATION
Teachers Get Little Say in a Book About Them
By MICHAEL WINERIP
Steven Brill’s new book, “Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools,” takes a largely critical eye toward teachers unions.
Weaving a Web of Knowledge
The digital route to a college degree has become popular as people have sought a cheaper, faster, more flexible method.
Online Enterprises Gain Foothold as Path to a College Degree
By TAMAR LEWIN
Some recent entrants into the field of online education offer grounds for both concern and hope.
WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY
Weekly Prompts From a Mentor
By TAMAR LEWIN
Western Governors University was started by the governors of 19 Western states who bemoaned the high cost of higher education.
UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE
Open Courses, Nearly Free
By TAMAR LEWIN
The University of the People relies on volunteer professors to teach 10-week online courses to poor students in 100 countries around the world.
LEARNING COUNTS
Receiving Credit for Job Experience
Learning Counts was started in January to help older students prepare portfolios that show what they have learned from work and life experiences.
STRAIGHTERLINE
A Way to Speed the Pace
By TAMAR LEWIN
Straighterline is a company, not a school, offering introductory math, business, science and writing classes found at most community colleges and universities, for a fraction of the price.
A Short-Lived Test, Even With Coaching
By TAMAR LEWIN
Signing up for some online classes, a reporter discovers she has forgotten a lot about math. Also, that studying in front of a computer is lonely.
Stricter Visa Rules in U.K. Put Some Colleges in Bind
Teaching Aids Research Skills of Grad Students, Study Says
The Plastic Sandwich Bag Flunks
Young Hispanics’ College Enrollment Rose 24% in Year, Study Says
Free Music School’s Cost: A Week on the Sidewalk
Resignation Letter Paints Harsh Picture of a Services Agency
While Pushing Through the Longer School Day, Some Things to Keep in Mind
City Room: A Quiet First Day for an Upper West Side Charter School
Education Life
Ed Schools’ Pedagogical Puzzle
By SHARON OTTERMAN
New models for teacher preparation are thinking outside the box. Are they too far out?
The Critter People
By TAMAR LEWIN
Dinosaur eggs, iguanas and ooh, look, a grad student. Inside the new school at the Natural History Museum
The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s
By LAURA PAPPANO
Call it credentials inflation. A four-year degree may not cut it anymore.
The Postgraduate PopulationEDUCATION LIFE
Beyond the B.A.
With more Americans than ever in grad school, a special issue devoted to all things postgraduate.
ROOM FOR DEBATE
How Can U.S. Scholars Resist China’s Control?
When China has banned scholars, U.S. universities haven't fought back. Should they be doing more do defend academic freedom?
From the Book Review
ESSAY
Boys and Reading: Is There Any Hope?
By ROBERT LIPSYTE
Boys’ aversion to reading, let alone to novels, has been worsening for years, prompting the question — what turns boys into readers?
‘Class Warfare ’
By STEVEN BRILL
Reviewed by SARA MOSLE
In “Class Warfare,” Steven Brill brings a sharp legal mind to the world of education reform and mounts a zealous case against America’s teachers’ unions.
From Opinion
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
When Schools Depend on Handouts
By MICHAEL A. REBELL and JESSICA R. WOLFF
Most state constitutions guarantee all students a sound, basic public education, rights that cannot be put on hold, even in tough times.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
How to Fix Our Math Education
By SOL GARFUNKEL and DAVID MUMFORD
The current curriculum is not a good way to prepare a vast majority of high school students for life.
Multimedia
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A complete summary of demographics and student performance over the past decade for every school in New York.
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A blog examining all facets of the college admissions process.
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“On Education” looks beyond the discourse to the teachers, principals and students at the heart of learning.
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Lisa Belkin writes about homework, friends, grades, bullying, baby sitters, the work-family balance and much more.
