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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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The big question right now in Russian politics is who will succeed Vladimir Putin as President in the 2008 election. As it turns out, the two front-runners -- first deputy prime ministers Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Medvedev -- are also squaring off in a contest for business-school supremacy in Russia.
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The average total cost of a private four-year college rose to $32,307 for the current school year, but the rate of increase has slowed compared to public school prices, according to a report released Monday.
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In a recent column, Emily Breidbart, a second-year medical student at New York University School of Medicine, expressed concerns about her medical education and the frustrating health-care system she will soon enter.
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After an outbreak of pregnancies among middle school girls, education officials in this city have decided to allow a school health center to make birth control pills available to girls as young as 11.
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The Air Force is pushing to prepare its troops better for service in the Middle East and Asia by offering broad instruction that focuses on the cultures they will encounter. Read more
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As schools move toward more preparation for standardized testing, it falls to parents to make a love for reading happen. Read more
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Despite the heartbreaking destruction it left behind, Hurricane Katrina created the chance of a fresh start for a majority of the city?s schools, which had been among the nation?s worst. Read more
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Nationwide, colleges are coming under new pressure to limit aggressive marketing by credit-card companies to students. Read more
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At Hofstra University, the reception for speaker Lynne F. Stewart, the radical lawyer convicted on charges of smuggling messages out of prison for a terrorist client, was generally courteous. Read more
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The founding principal of the city?s first Arabic-language school said Tuesday that the Bloomberg administration forced her to resign in August by threatening to shut the school. Read more
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Some states are overwhelmed by the number of schools unable to satisfy the No Child Left Behind law?s demands. Read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Columbia?s football field will be named after Robert Kraft, who played for the university?s team more than 45 years ago. Read more
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The Supreme Court is likely to take up the issue again soon, with nationwide implications. Read more
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The police said that their hate crimes unit had mounted a full investigation, including testing the rope for DNA. Read more
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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
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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
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The authorities said the attacker was disgruntled about having been suspended after a fight earlier this week. Read more
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President Bush tried Tuesday to prod Congress into reauthorizing his biggest domestic achievement, the 2001 No Child Left Behind education law. Read more
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Teachers facing various complaints can be ordered to a reassignment center, more commonly known among New York teachers as a ?rubber room.? Read more
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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
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