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An English teacher at a high school in New Jersey has asked parents to complete assignments based on their children?s work as a way to increase parental involvement. Read more
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The Association of Alumni of Dartmouth College went to court to challenge governance changes that the Dartmouth board announced on Sept. 8. Read more
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For those who attempt it, the doctoral dissertation can loom on the horizon like Everest, gleaming invitingly as a challenge but often turning into a masochistic exercise once the ascent is begun. Read more
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A group of academics is preparing to gather reams of data on New York City?s public schools, analyzing the numbers to figure out what works, and what does not, in schools. Read more
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A teacher?s creativity and awareness of technology helped her elementary school students find focus in the classroom. Read more
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited a Harlem school with Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel on Monday. Read more
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Yale Law School had restricted military recruiters from its job fairs because of the Pentagon?s policy that bars openly gay or bisexual people from the military. Read more
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A terse editorial in the Colorado State University student newspaper has ignited a new free speech debate. Read more
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Colleges want diversity. Students want diversity. There?s just this little problem with the law. Read more
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Over the summer, colleges and universities around the country revised campus violence policies and started additional mental health training, among other things. Read more
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Fear and loathing pave the road to college. But ask recent graduates to reflect on their experience, and they advise kids to forget rankings, chill out and get ready to savor the best years of their lives. Read more
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A Stuyvesant graduate, class of ?85, looks back at his school and wonders how he would fare in the glamorous building that replaced it. Read more
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At West Point, a professor teaches poetry to cadets and learns more than she expected. Read more
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Who gets a forum gets even touchier on campuses. Read more
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Only two students have been enrolled at the Academy of St. Joseph, which hoped to compete for students this year with some of New York City?s pricier secular schools. Read more
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Omesh Hiraman was ordered by a judge on Friday to submit to a psychiatric examination to assess his fitness to stand trial. Read more
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A text-messaging system that warned of a gunman at St. John?s University drew praise by everyone from Gov. Eliot Spitzer to Assemblyman Rory I. Lancman of Queens. Read more
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A grammatical slip-up by President Bush was removed, then restored, to transcripts on Thursday. Read more
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President Bush signed legislation overhauling federal student-aid programs, raising grants to low-income college students and cutting subsidies to companies that make federally guaranteed student loans. Read more
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An effort by Senate Democrats to advance a measure to give legal status to illegal immigrants who are high school graduates failed on Wednesday. Read more
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The university and the borough president of Manhattan announced Wednesday that they had reached an agreement relating to the university?s plans to expand its campus in Harlem. Read more
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A Harvard student must be given extra break time during a medical licensing exam to pump breast milk, a Massachusetts appeals court judge ruled Wednesday. Read more
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In a reversal from 2000, more Americans over all now live in college dormitories than in prisons. Read more
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There was a sharp division of opinion Tuesday about the manner in which the president of Columbia University introduced the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Read more
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The results also showed that the nation had made only incremental progress in narrowing historic gaps in achievement between white and minority students. Read more
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