Sep 27 Watch Historic School Strives to Reclaim Glory Days and Graduation Rates Nation's First Black High School Aims to Recapture Glory… Continue watching
Sep 27 Should undocumented students be allowed to pay in-state tuition? Cynthia Cruz is an undocumented immigrant. She's a Mexican citizen living in the United States. According to Cruz, New Jersey is home, because it's where her parents brought her from Mexico when she was a baby. .embed-container { position:… Continue reading
Sep 25 Dept. of Ed awards green ribbons to environmentally friendly schools Photo by Justin Scuiletti/PBS NewsHour. Director of the U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools Andrea Suarez Falken (third from left) experiences the forest park at Yu Ying Charter School in Washington, D.C. Continue reading
Sep 24 The high school experience, across country lines Now a junior at a Chicago university, Eric spent a year between high school and college studying in South Korea. Not all high schools are created equal, especially when comparing them across the globe. In a new book "… Continue reading
Sep 23 Watch Searching for Lessons on Education at Schools Around the Globe Searching for Lessons on Education at Schools Around the Globe… Continue watching
Sep 23 Activist Malala Yousafzai tweets for education By Larisa Epatko 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… Continue reading
Sep 21 Law school in six words: “You’ll get hired. So they claimed.” Langdell Hall of Harvard Law School | Credit: Wikimedia Commons In an effort to teach concise writing skills, legal writing professor Lisa Mazzie tasked her students at Marquette University… Continue reading
Sep 19 Fit kids learn more effectively 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… Continue reading
Sep 13 Norway killer goes to college 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. Continue reading
Sep 11 Alternative college ratings rank bang-for-buck education Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. In response to U.S. News and World Report's famous college ranking, Washington Monthly puts out its own College Guide and Rankings issue that measures factors such as the graduation rate of low-income… Continue reading