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Many teenagers who play high school football do not know what a concussion is or they simply do not care, raising the risk of injuries, which are sometimes fatal. Read more
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The student-run newspaper at Central Connecticut State University is under fire for publishing a cartoon this week that critics called racist and sexist. Read more
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A Louisiana appeals court overturned the conviction of an African-American high school student who was accused of beating a white classmate. Read more
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The departure from Harvard this week of Mohamed A. El-Erian highlights the difficulties that universities face in retaining endowment chiefs. Read more
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A state-approved educational video that discusses a same-sex couple has sparked debate in New Jersey. Read more
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In Berkeley, Calif., a protest in the trees outside Memorial Stadium at the University of California has been business, and Berkeley, as usual. Read more
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More students than ever have started master?s programs this fall, and universities are seeing those programs as potentially lucrative sources of revenue. Read more
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Over the past two years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has sought to control campus drinking with a parent-notification policy. Read more
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Mohamed A. El-Erian unexpectedly announced that he is leaving to return to the Pacific Investment Management Company, where he had worked for seven years. Read more
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A charter school can resume teaching in Hebrew, three weeks after the lessons were halted over concerns that the Jewish faith was seeping into public classrooms. Read more
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The impact of changing demographics and farming technology in the northwestern Minnesota towns of Stephen and Argyle is apparent in the student body and on the football field. Read more
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A draft House bill to renew the federal No Child Left Behind law came under sharp attack from civil rights groups and the nation?s largest teacher unions. Read more
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The City Council voted 46 to 2 to override Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg?s veto of a bill to weaken enforcement of the ban on cellphones in public schools. Read more
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Walking to school is healthier. Now, to make it safer. Read more
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The school system of Washington is broken, and Adrian Fenty, the youngest mayor in the city?s history, has staked his political career on promises to fix it. Read more
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Dartmouth College?s board of trustees will expand from its unusually small size and lower its unusual level of alumni power. Read more
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A tenure bid by a professor at Barnard College has put Columbia University once again at the center of a struggle over scholarship on the Middle East. Read more
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Gary Suraci, the principal of a career center in the Hudson Valley for the past dozen years, returned this fall as Genna Suraci, causing something of a stir. Read more
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The National Board of Medical Examiners has refused a Harvard graduate?s request for additional break time to pump breast milk for a 4-month-old baby. Read more
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For the New School in Greenwich Village, the Norman Hsu scandal is an uncomfortable reminder of the danger in naming prominent individuals as trustees. Read more
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At a time when the pressure to do well on standardized tests in public schools creates incentives to cheat, states are just beginning to look for the patterns that betray it. Read more
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The bill approved Friday by the House and Senate would sharply cut subsidies to lenders and increase grants to needy students. Read more
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A controversy at Dartmouth College has it reconsidering the entire trustee structure, setting off a battle over whether alumni will be disenfranchised. Read more
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All 52 of the schools in the troubled district in Paterson, N.J., were closed on Friday on short notice for safety reasons, locking out 28,000 students and setting off a political brawl. Read more
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Military recruiters are frequently given free reign in New York City public schools and allowed into classes, according to a report released Thursday. Read more
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