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SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Here is a pop quiz:
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Congratulations, your kid did well on the SAT. But the girl next door did even better.
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A forthcoming law review article by UCLA professor Rick Sander is causing a big stir in the legal academic community. Sander's piece in the Stanford Law Review argues that race-based affirmative action as practiced by American law schools during the past 30 years actually ends up hurting the group -- African American law students -- it is most intended to help.
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Quick: What will $36,750 buy you?
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - If only salaries would rise as rapidly - and as consistently - as college costs.
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Across the nation, on the Web and in the home, classrooms are evolving beyond the traditional learning environment with alternatives that are no longer bound by geography and customary modes of operation.
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It's nearly noon, and 11-year-old student Elisheva Ben-Avraham is just now thinking about breakfast. She's curled up on her family's velvety brown sofa flipping through a book of math problems when the mood strikes. She pulls her bare feet out from underneath her, pads to the kitchen and comes back, pancakes in hand, to her workbook.
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The cheerleading squad and the math team rarely compete for members at most middle schools, but at Fulton Science Academy, they are often second choices to the Chess Club.
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During the 2000 presidential election, Democratic nominee Al Gore told voters that the choice between his candidacy and that of Republican George W. Bush would likely determine who named the next three justices of the Supreme Court.
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President Bush touted his domestic agenda in the key states of Arizona and Ohio on Wednesday, the day after he delivered an optimistic assessment of the state of the union.
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At Cristo Rey New York High School on East 106th Street every student works to pay the tuition, part of a bold venture in schooling and life. Read more
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Google and I.B.M. are investing to build large data centers that students can tap into over the Internet to program and research remotely, which is called ?cloud computing.? Read more
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A Colorado State University review board decided to admonish, but not fire, the student newspaper editor who approved a vulgar, four-word editorial about President Bush. Read more
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Dr. Kugler was a union organizer for college teachers who became prominent in the mid-1960s when he led an 18-month strike by faculty members at St. John?s University. Read more
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Most of the billions of dollars raised by state lotteries is used simply to sustain the games, an examination by The Times has found. Read more
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Columbus Day is one of those uniquely American holidays that reward whole classes of people, while punishing millions of others. Read more
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Parent-teacher meetings bring out the best and the worst in parents. Read more
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Some parents are sending their children to language schools to help them understand an increasingly multicultural world. Read more
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In New Jersey, a school district has launched its first in-house program for autistic children after years of paying for them to be educated at specialized private schools. Read more
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Scrambling to keep up with the region?s surging population, public universities in fast-growing Sun Belt states face more than just logistical challenges. Read more
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City Hall Academy, which symbolized the Bloomberg administration?s passion for improving the schools, has quietly closed without notice. Read more
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The programs aim to help re-engage women who are trying to return to the work force, many of whom left for family obligations. Read more
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For the first time in years, New York City is helping to finance apartment buildings designed to provide relatively low-cost housing for a single profession: teachers and educators. Read more
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Mr. Burkhardt headed both the American Council of Learned Societies and Bennington College and also helped put the open-admissions policy into effect at the City University of New York. Read more
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At New St. Andrews College in Idaho, a bold evangelical experiment bids to arm undergraduates for the 21st century?s culture wars by reviving 17th-century learning. Read more
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