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State of Emergency Declared in Charlottesville After Protests Turn Violent
Protests of a plan to remove a statue of a Confederate general led to clashes that left several injured.
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Behind Berkeley’s Semester of Hate
When far left meets far right, sparks fly. Students from both sides discuss their political journeys.
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‘Hamilton’ Hip-Hop, by Students
An American history curriculum lets young people write the narrative. Fill in the rap.
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Seeing Hope for Flagging Economy, West Virginia Revamps Vocational Track
Nearly two in five high school students now take vocational classes, including simulated workplaces designed to prepare them for good-paying jobs.
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Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly
At Ole Miss, where even an architect of disenfranchisement still has his name on a building, the process of addressing the past is more sensitive than at most universities.
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Affirmative Action Policies Evolve, Achieving Their Own Diversity
The practice in college admissions has evolved from race-based quotas of decades ago into a range of approaches that only occasionally produce the desired results.
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What ‘Back to School’ Looks Like to Our Readers
We asked readers to send us pictures that represented their experiences with this time of transition. Here are some responses.
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Developmentally Disabled, and Going to College
Work-readiness programs for the intellectually challenged aim to prepare students for a dream job. Less than half will find one.
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Why Kids Can’t Write
Some say English instruction must get back to basics, with a focus on grammar. But won’t that stifle a student’s personal voice?
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How to Conquer the Admissions Essay
Your goal: to make someone fall in love with you (or at least your writing). First, choose a topic you really want to write about.
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Learning to Learn: You, Too, Can Rewire Your Brain
How an engineering professor who “flunked my way” through high school math and science went on to create the world’s most popular online course.
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Where All the School’s a Stage, and the List of Success Stories Is Long
In high schools of the performing and visual arts, race, sexual identity and ZIP code are beside the point. But not academics.
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U.S. to Help Remove Debt Burden for Students Defrauded by For-Profit Chain
The settlement could affect more than 36,000 students, many of whom are low-income, immigrant women.
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At Walmart Academy, Training Better Managers. But With a Better Future?
A new program for store supervisors and department managers may make them better employees but may not help them reach the middle class.
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A Few Telling Freshman Trends
Heading to campus for the first time? Check out these results from the U.C.L.A. survey of 2016-17 first-year students.
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More Diversity Means More Demands
Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.
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Liberal Lessons in Taking Back America
Political organizing is tedious. Change comes with dogged, on-the-ground work, not a list of demands, according to Harvard Resistance School.
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Listening In on Portland State Activists
Students plan recruitment strategies for the new school year: Demand and disorient.
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Klansmen Survive Campus Upheavals
University buildings still honor grand wizards and cyclops.
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ON CAMPUS
The ‘Free Speech’ Hypocrisy of Right-Wing Media
Conservatives are obsessed with protecting “free speech,” but only the kind they agree with.
Aug. 14, 2017
ON CAMPUS
What U.Va. Students Saw in Charlottesville
“The alt-right rally,” said one student, “had nothing to do with a statue. It was about intimidation.”
Aug. 13, 2017
A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry
Mastery-based learning allows students to learn at their own pace.
Aug. 11, 2017
More Law Schools Begin Accepting GRE Test Results
Many schools are casting wider nets to attract students who would not otherwise set their sights on a legal education.
Aug. 10, 2017
Prep School Reports Reveal a Chain of Sexual Misconduct
Two elite boarding schools, Emma Willard and Phillips Academy, Andover, say a teacher who worked at both schools abused students at both of them.
Aug. 7, 2017
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With Snowflakes and Unicorns, Marina Ratner and Maryam Mirzakhani Explored a Universe in Motion
The legacies and achievements of two great mathematicians will dazzle and intrigue scholars for decades.
Aug. 7, 2017
Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s administration said a program starting in September, which critics have called “Attica University,” will reach about 2,500 inmates.
Aug. 7, 2017
Mark White, Texas Governor Who Championed Public Education, Dies at 77
As governor from 1983 to 1987, Mr. White limited class sizes, increased teachers’ pay and required high school athletes to pass their classes.
Aug. 6, 2017
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An Ice Cream Maker’s Latest Recipe: Saving the Local School
It looked as if a small town in Ontario would lose its school. But a local business has proved an unlikely savior, offering millions of dollars to save it.
Aug. 6, 2017
Singapore Orders Expulsion of American Academic
The order said Huang Jing had tried to influence Singapore’s foreign policy on behalf of an unnamed foreign government.
Aug. 5, 2017
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