The Senate vote to repeal the 17-year old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy against gay men and lesbians serving openly in the armed forces removes a reason that…
With the lame-duck Congress winding down and a $5.7 billion gap in financing looming for next year’s Pell grants--and a further $8 billion gap for the following year--there…
The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other…
The vote by the Senate on Saturday to block a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant students was a painful setback to…
National surveys show that nearly half of the students who visit counseling centers are coping with serious mental illness, more than double the rate a decade ago. More…
The football field at a public school here, in the second largest school district in the country, soon may be brought to students by Nike, reports the New…
Some people who set up home laboratories are serious hobbyists in search of better tools; others are home-schooling parents equipping their children; and others are just curious, report…
Gordon Brown was at New York University, where he talked about his new book, led a discussion with selected students and eased into the Greenwich Village institution that…
Next month, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft will present a slew of new slates that it hopes will offer some competition to the…
Did any school district in the country have a tougher week than the one in Atlanta? Criminal investigators began digging anew into accusations of widespread cheating on state…
With Republican deficit hawks taking control of the House next month, Education Secretary Arne Duncan will no longer have billions of dollars to use at his discretion, reports…
Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, likes to say that his web site brings people together, helping to make the world a better place. But…
Jobs in technology, like those in virtually every other sector, took a big hit in 2009, according to a report released on Wednesday that is based on the…
For her first assignment of the school year, Verona Gill, a $100,000-a-year special education teacher whom the city is trying to fire, sat around education offices in Lower…
Figment.com will be unveiled on Monday as an experiment in online literature, a free platform for young people to read and write fiction, both on their computers and…
Michelle Rhee announced she would lead a new advocacy group, StudentsFirst, setting a highly ambitious target of raising $1 billion to promote “transformative reform,” primarily by backing laws…
Bill Gates is investing $335 million through his foundation to overhaul the personnel departments of several big school systems, reports the New York Times.
Retirement communities, typically nestled near beaches or golf courses, are beginning to emerge somewhere else: on university campuses, reports the New York Times.
Lawmakers examining the Federal Trade Commission’s recommendation for a “do not track” mechanism to restrict the monitoring of internet users said that they supported stricter safeguards for consumer…