Healthcare, energy drive up college costs

State university tuition has leaped 40 percent in the past five years, hitting the three out of four American college students who attend public universities.




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Failing Schools Strain to Meet U.S. Standard

Some states are overwhelmed by the number of schools unable to satisfy the No Child Left Behind law?s demands. Read more


In the Trenches: In a Competitive Middle School, Triage for Aches and Anxieties

As schools expand to include students with physiological and psychological challenges, the school nurse has become more than just someone to detect a fever from a fake. Read more


Racial Slur Written on Bench of Harlem Team at Staten Island Game

Police and city education officials were trying to determine who was responsible for the slur, as well as looking into accusations that faculty members tried to trivialize the incident. Read more


First Woman Takes Reins at Harvard

In her inaugural speech, Drew Gilpin Faust offered a spirited defense of American higher education against demands that it quantify what it is teaching. Read more


Noose Case Puts Focus on a Scholar of Race

A professor said she remained mystified over who could be responsible for leaving a noose on her office door at Columbia University?s Teachers College. Read more


Owner of Patriots Is Donating $5 Million to Columbia

Columbia?s football field will be named after Robert Kraft, who played for the university?s team more than 45 years ago. Read more


With Justices Split, City Must Pay Disabled Student?s Tuition

The Supreme Court is likely to take up the issue again soon, with nationwide implications. Read more


Noose on Door at Columbia Prompts Campus Protest

The police said that their hate crimes unit had mounted a full investigation, including testing the rope for DNA. Read more


Professors Sue Oral Roberts President

The lawsuit includes an allegation that the president of Oral Roberts University, Richard Roberts, illegally mobilized students to campaign for a Republican mayoral candidate. Read more


New York Official Faults Student-Loan Marketing

Certain marketing tactics aimed at students are the latest focus of the continuing inquiry into the student loan industry by the New York attorney general. Read more


Student, 14, Shoots 4 and Kills Himself in Cleveland School

The authorities said the attacker was disgruntled about having been suspended after a fight earlier this week. Read more


Bush Prodding Congress to Reauthorize His Education Law

President Bush tried Tuesday to prod Congress into reauthorizing his biggest domestic achievement, the 2001 No Child Left Behind education law. Read more


On Education: Where Teachers Sit, Awaiting Their Fates

Teachers facing various complaints can be ordered to a reassignment center, more commonly known among New York teachers as a ?rubber room.? Read more


File-Sharing Students Fight Copyright Constraints

A national organization sprouting up on college campuses advocates loosening the restrictions of copyright law so that information ? from software to music to research to art ? can be freely shared. Read more


Police Arrest a Student, Then Her Principal, Too

The student was accused of punching a safety officer and the principal, who tried to intervene, was accused of obstructing government activity and resisting arrest. Read more


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