Education

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NEW YORK -- Even though Malala Yousafzai, the young education activist who was shot by a member of the Taliban, started out as a blogger for the BBC, she normally doesn't tweet. But Monday afternoon, she typed her first 140-character…

Photo by flickr user Geoffery Kehrig Scientists know physical activity can help children focus better at school and that it can even help them perform better academically. But it wasn't until a recent study, conducted at the…

Video still of Anders Breivik Anders Behring Breivik, convicted of killing 77 people in a 2011 mass shooting and bombing in Norway, has been cleared to enroll in three political sciences courses at the University of Oslo.

The release of U.S. News and World Report's 2014 college rankings Tuesday unleashed the usual obsessing. The Chronicle of Higher Education cleanly summarizes some of the methodological changes in this year's rankings, which included decreasing the weight…