Students held an all-girls prom in Hamtramck, Mich., that Muslims could attend.
A dream to take part in an American rite of passage came true for girls whose faith forbids them to date or dance with boys.
The company is accused of fraudulently claiming millions of dollars in reimbursement for tutoring services that the government said it never delivered to underprivileged students.
The guidelines reflect concerns about the misuse of sites like Facebook and Twitter and represent the latest official response to allegations of teachers behaving inappropriately with students.
The Simons Foundation plans to announce on Tuesday that the University of California, Berkeley, will be the home of a new center that combines computing theory with fields like biology or economics.
Many parents have found that, after withdrawing their children from private schools in New York City, they are still expected to pay the full tuition for the coming school year.
The executive order is designed to protect against deceptive recruiting practices, especially by for-profit institutions seeking veterans’ military benefits.
The House approved stripping funds from a program in the health care law to avoid doubling student loan interest rates.
Brown University announced on Tuesday that it would increase its voluntary payments to the City of Providence, where officials are trying to shore up finances to avoid bankruptcy.
John Lombardi, the president of the Louisiana State University System, was fired on Friday by the system’s governing board. Dr. Lombardi had clashed with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.
Bushwick Community High School, which has low graduation rates, was given another chance after showing signs of improvement.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has been talking to Democrats and conservative Republicans about his plan to give students a chance to study and work here legally, albeit temporarily.
Both President Obama and Republicans say they want to keep a 3.4 percent student loan rate, but they vehemently disagree on how to do it.
Republicans and Democrats are arguing over how to pay $6 billion for a subsidized benefit.
Two comprehensive language courses for mobile devices are vastly better in quality than apps that offer a small piece of the language learning experience.
Complaints surfaced about the curriculum in a course dealing with terrorism and radicalism at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.
As the college searches for a way out of a deepening financial hole, it will also expand graduate and other programs to generate more income.
President Obama opened a three-college swing on Tuesday, seeking to mobilize young voters to his side once again. But this time he’s an incumbent presiding over an anemic job market.
Students headed to final exams at the University of Pittsburgh this week after a semester in which more than 100 bomb threats disrupted classes and emptied dorms.
In Chicago for a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other historic figures dropped in on more than a dozen public schools throughout the city.
On Thursday night, Brooklyn Community High School’s fate is to be decided by a mayoral-controlled panel that focuses on test scores and graduation rates.
Tonya Lutz, a high school basketball champion, faces an uphill battle as the Carroll Academy girls coach, but players see her as a stable, trustworthy role model, unlike anyone they know.
Patrick Steele, the security director at Carroll Academy, is the judge and jury that doles out discipline, but most students do not know how much he has in common with them.
For a 17-year-old senior now at Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn., dreams of college gave way to fights, drug use and pregnancy.
The nine players on the girls basketball team at Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn., often outnumber their fans at games.
At Carroll Academy, a school for troubled teenagers in Huntingdon, Tenn., basketball is a means to provide the players supervision and structure and to teach them about teamwork and trust.
Parliament is legalizing students' right to join political parties, but many restrictions still apply, like allowing universities to decide on which parties are appropriate.
Computers are fast when it comes to grading test essays, but they can be fooled.
A faux news story on April Fool’s Day tackled the intense competition for acceptance into elite preschools. But the topic offers an important lesson about the limits of market forces.
A New York University class, “Baseball as a Road to God,” aims far higher than clichés about stadiums being “green cathedrals.”
For many high school graduates directed by colleges into remediation, it is like entering the Bermuda Triangle, never to emerge, an economist writes.
The Roman Catholic sisters of New York City have focused on social justice issues, but the Vatican has criticized them for not speaking up about conception and sexuality.
P.S. 30 and P.S. 179 are similar in nearly every aspect, yet one got New York City’s top grade and the other failed.
Young people, even with a college degree, are entering an economy that just doesn’t seem to want them.
Did that headline hook you? Who can turn away from a lovely pineapple? (Now let’s tackle the topic of privatization of public education.)
By politicizing our faith, lawmakers are ignoring Tennessee’s true religious roots and threatening the liberties they claim to protect.
Can the MCAT identify that ethereal mix of scientist, humanist and spiritualist that makes a good doctor?
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With the unemployment rate still high, colleges are tailoring their continuing-education programs to suit current and future job openings.
More industries are following Hollywood’s lottery system, offering potential wealth in exchange for terrible hours and low pay.
The Indonesia Mengajar program recruits and trains young Indonesians to work where teachers are most needed: in remote, impoverished provinces.
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