A literary detective story that began 18 months ago and was advanced through a chance reading of an 1880 edition of The Harvard Register has led researchers from…
There's a special class for children with autism or multiple learning disabilities that is charged with running the coffee shop every Friday morning, reports the New York Times.
Like any aspiring filmmaker, Michael McDonald, a high school senior, used a blog to show off his videos. But discouraged by how few people bothered to visit, he…
There was trepidation on both sides when a squadron of biologists set out to celebrate Darwin Day in rural America during the weekend, the New York Times reports.
When administrators at the University of California, Irvine, decided to suspend the Muslim Student Union for a quarter over the disruption of a speech last year by the…
The Legislature’s initial state budget proposals calling for the closing of four community colleges caught many lawmakers off guard. But what largely escaped their attention--the slashing of health…
The chameleon-like quality of some people's racial and ethnic identification might seem trivial except that statistics on ethnicity and race are used for many important purposes, reports the…
In their infancy eReaders were adopted by an older generation that valued the devices for their convenience, portability and, in many cases, simply for their ability to enlarge…
The aggressive $4 billion program begun by the Obama administration in 2009 to radically transform the country’s worst schools included, as its centerpiece, a plan to install new…
Demographers sifting through new population counts released on Thursday by the Census Bureau say the data bring a pattern into sharper focus: Young Americans are far less white…
As the father of an 8-year-old attending Public School 36 on Staten Island, Richard P. Ghiraldi was alarmed to learn that students were being exposed to a known…
Rupert Murdoch on Wednesday pushed the send button on The Daily, a news application designed for the iPad that he hopes will position his News Corporation front and…
Unedited, raw, anonymous and emotional, Egyptian voices are trickling out through a new service that evades attempts by the authorities to suppress them by cutting internet services, reports…
Seizing on a national anxiety over poor student performance, many governors are taking aim at a bedrock tradition of public schools: teacher tenure, reports the New York Times.
The DVR rocked the world of television by letting viewers skip commercials and build their own home viewing schedules. Now a handful of web services and applications are…
Professor Kristofer Petersen-Overton said he had learned a that Brooklyn College was rescinding his appointment, saying he lacked the academic qualifications to teach such a high-level course, reports…
Add two more internet browser makers to the list of companies planning to offer web users new ways to control how their personal data is collected online, reports…