College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.
12/3/2008 10:14:27 PM
Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent.
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Open Membership: A Year of Toil and Sweat, Then They Played a Game
12/3/2008 2:45:59 PM
In a sterling example of the entrepreneurial spirit fueling a nationwide boom in college club sports, Doug DeLuca succeeded in fielding a Vermont tackle football team in only a year’s time.
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Parents’ Suit Offers Test of Title IX for Justices
12/3/2008 2:43:41 AM
The parents of a girl who said she had been molested on a school bus seemed poised to win what may turn out to be an empty victory at the Supreme Court.
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Global Classrooms: Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)
12/1/2008 11:09:58 AM
More American students are heading overseas not just for a semester abroad, but for their full degree program.
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Turning Around the Idea of Student Loans
12/1/2008 1:17:19 AM
In raising money and investing it with a nonprofit lending institution, the Meadows School in Las Vegas is by all accounts the first high school to operate a microbank.
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Private Schools Say They’re Thriving in Downturn
11/29/2008 3:42:49 AM
In letters and meetings, elite schools in New York say applications and donations remain strong.
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Beyond the Ivied Halls, Endowments Suffer
11/26/2008 2:38:17 AM
Some of the nation’s universities are trying to sell chunks of their portfolios privately as their endowments swoon with the markets.
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Good Deeds: The Backlash
12/1/2008 4:30:06 PM
Schools have trimmed community service hours for high school students, hoping they will aim for quality, not quantity.
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Music: Suffolk Youth Orchestra Joins the Field
11/28/2008 12:50:43 PM
Classical ensembles for school-age performers offer students — some of whom do not have orchestras at their schools — more opportunities to play.
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Update: Random Test Rejected for Drugs
11/28/2008 12:48:05 PM
There will be no drug testing of students at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J.
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Accused Pediatrician Is Leaving Institute
11/25/2008 2:31:09 AM
Dr. Melvin D. Levine, who is facing lawsuits accusing him of molesting boys, has resigned from All Kinds of Minds, which he founded to train teachers to help children with learning disabilities.
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Show Winner, Now Bankrupt, Will Keep Vow
11/25/2008 12:40:19 PM
Kathy Cox, the Georgia state schools superintendent who won $1 million on a game show, filed for bankruptcy, but plans to fulfill her pledge to donate her winnings to local schools.
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Kiyoshi Ito, 93, Mathematician Who Described Random Motion, Dies
11/24/2008 10:21:06 PM
Mr. Ito’s innovative models of random motion are used today in fields as diverse as finance and biology.
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Presidents of Colleges Give Back Some Pay
11/23/2008 3:50:00 AM
After The Chronicle of Higher Education published its survey of university presidents’ pay, several presidents said that they would give back part of their pay or forgo their raises.
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Iowa City Journal: Chain of Grief for a Flagship University
11/25/2008 4:41:33 PM
Famous as a literary powerhouse, the University of Iowa has been the gloomy setting of more trouble and tragedy lately than could fit in a single book.
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High School Dances Shine Just a Little Less Brightly
11/23/2008 3:56:06 AM
From affluent neighborhoods to blue-collar ones, the homecoming dance is a more modest affair this year.
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Rolle Wins Rhodes Scholarship
11/23/2008 4:17:32 AM
Florida State safety Myron Rolle is the first major-college football player of his generation to win what is considered the world’s most prestigious postgraduate academic scholarship.
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Obamas Pick Sidwell School, Ending a Washington Guessing Game
11/24/2008 3:18:01 PM
Malia and Sasha Obama will attend Sidwell Friends School, the pricey and prestigious academy that has educated generations of Washington’s elite.
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Early-Decision Applications Are Up at Colleges, in Spite of the Economy
11/21/2008 1:29:25 AM
Some need-blind colleges said that they had been publicizing their generous financial aid packages, and that it seemed to be paying off.
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Tuition Jump in Florida Wins Backing of Governor
11/21/2008 1:28:32 AM
Gov. Charlie Crist urged the Legislature to allow tuition increases at the state’s public universities to blunt the impact of budget cuts.
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Your Money: Colleges Are Not Going Hungry, but Are in Need
11/29/2008 4:07:41 AM
Against the real likelihood of financial doom for so many people, what precisely do we owe our alma maters at a time like this?
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Parenting | Basking Ridge: Drawing the Line on Drug Testing
11/25/2008 1:15:26 PM
Is it in a student’s best interest to be subject to drug testing in school, or is the policy an invasion of privacy?
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