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A Rutgers professor sees athletic ascent accompanied by academic descent. Read more
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When it comes to college admissions, how early is too early? Read more
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For many, Sputnik was proof that America?s science education, had fallen behind. But, since then, how far have we come? Read more
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The police arrested an 18-year-old man Monday in last week?s shooting of two students at Delaware State University. Read more
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A former top administrator of the Camden campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey gave passing grades to unqualified students, potentially endangering patients, according to a federal monitor?s report released yesterday. In the report, the monitor, Herbert J. Stern, wrote that an inquiry had confirmed allegations against the administrator, Dr. Paul R. Mehne, who was the associate dean for academic and student affairs at the university?s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School campus in Camden since 1995. Dr. Mehne was suspended with pay in June and then retired at the end of the month. A telephone call to his home was not returned yesterday. The university has since made changes to increase oversight of the Camden campus, said Anna Farneski, a spokeswoman for the university. Read more
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A new superintendent, Paul G. Vallas, is vowing to transform the city?s battered public school system. Read more
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The drive by a revitalized Russian Orthodox Church to weave its tenets into the education system has prompted controversy. Read more
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After a hazing death last spring, a college is taking a tougher stance on drinking. Read more
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To carry out a plan for growth, Fordham University is asking the city to waive some requirements governing height and setback, and to allow underground parking space for 470 cars. Read more
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A growing number of New York nursery schools are using a free-spirited approach born in a town in Italy. But will the graduates get into a decent kindergarten? Read more
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A controversy over two fifth graders sporting buttons featuring Hitler Youth members highlights the difficulty that schools face when confronting free speech cases. Read more
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John Edwards laid out a proposal to overhaul the education system on Friday, saying that poor children attend schools that are ?separate and unequal.? Read more
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Saving for ballooning college costs will test even the most creative parent. Read more
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Two freshman students were shot and wounded, one seriously, during an argument that started at a university cafeteria. Read more
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Two North Jersey high school students have been accused of making a copycat bomb threat after a similar threat closed schools in 12 districts. Read more
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After being criticized for allowing politics to interfere with academic freedom, the University of California, Irvine, announced it will hire Erwin Chemerinsky to be dean of its new law school after all. Read more
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The voluntary agreement will cut emissions for the university?s proposed science center 50 percent below the levels required by the national standard, according to a Massachusetts official. Read more
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After white parents complained about school crowding, authorities drew up a rezoning plan. The results: almost all of the students required to move this fall were black. Read more
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The door remains closed to Nalini Ghuman, an assistant professor who is British and who had lived and worked in this country for 10 years before her exclusion last August. Read more
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The New York education commissioner, Richard P. Mills, has appointed a new superintendent, Robert-Wayne Harris, for the troubled Roosevelt school system. Read more
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A change in an agreement with health advocates will allow beverage makers to sell enhanced water products in schools. Read more
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Many young people on the fast track to fat paydays in the financial industry are choosing to forgo M.B.A. programs. Read more
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A school turns to outside help to raise students? lagging test scores. Read more
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Most schools have at least one large family that seems to be everywhere at once, and at St. James Catholic elementary school in Red Bank, N.J., it is the Buckmans. Read more
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Two decades after Allan Bloom?s ?The Closing of the American Mind,? it?s generally agreed that his multiculturalist opponents won the canon wars. Read more
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