Nation’s Wealthy Places Pour Private Money Into Public Schools, Study Finds

By MOTOKO RICH

With funding formulas that cap or redirect local property tax revenues to state coffers, some places are looking for other ways to capture local money.

Ebola Prompts Universities to Tighten Travel Rules

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

Several schools have allowed humanitarian exceptions to restrictions on trips to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the countries most affected by the virus.

New York City Council to Look at School Segregation

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

Though the Council has very limited power over public schools, the bill’s sponsors say they do have the ability to increase the volume of the conversation.

New York Schools Chancellor Replaces 8 Superintendents

By KATE TAYLOR

The major personnel reshuffling was the first since Chancellor Carmen Fariña took over in January.

Ali Mazrui, Scholar of Africa Who Divided U.S. Audiences, Dies at 81

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Professor Mazrui, who had taught since 1989 at Binghamton University, set off national criticism with his 1986 television documentary, “The Africans: A Triple Heritage.”

Vocational Skills Could Count Toward Diploma in New York

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

The new graduation rules would offer a variety of alternative subjects, including language, accounting, humanities or one of 13 vocational assessments.

Football Players in Sayreville, N.J., Recall Hazing

By NATE SCHWEBER, KIM BARKER and JASON GRANT

The investigation may be complicated by conflicting accounts from witnesses and some of the freshman football players targeted by older members of the Sayreville War Memorial High School team.

The Upshot

Where Young College Graduates Are Choosing to Live

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

More young people are moving to the very heart of cities, even in economically troubled places like Buffalo and Cleveland.

Girl Scouts Debate Their Place in a Changing World

By JENNIFER DOBNER

The organization has spent years moving away from its roots in camping and crafts to embrace more modern-day themes. Now some are pushing for a return to tradition.

Sesame Workshop Tackles Literacy With Technology

By ELIZABETH JENSEN

The first products from a partnership between the nonprofit producer of “Sesame Street” and the children’s speech recognition company ToyTalk could be available early next year.

International Education

British Universities Get Good News

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE

A study released this month says that by 2024, Britain will add 83,000 foreign graduate students to the nearly quarter-million it hosted in 2013.

School District on Long Island Is Told It Must Teach Immigrants

By BENJAMIN MUELLER

The guidance came after complaints that children who are in the U.S. illegally had been barred from public school classes in Hempstead.

Deasy Resigns as Los Angeles Schools Chief After Mounting Criticism

By MOTOKO RICH

John E. Deasy, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, had clashed with the school board, and drawn flak for a flawed $1.3 billion plan to give iPads to students.

Tests Prove Negative for Ebola in Yale Graduate Student

By PATRICK McGEEHAN

The student, who had recently returned from Liberia and was admitted to Yale-New Haven Hospital with a fever, was said to be improving.

Some Harvard Professors Oppose Policy on Assaults

By JESS BIDGOOD and TAMAR LEWIN

Dozens of faculty members asked the school to withdraw its new sexual misconduct policy, saying it violated basic principles of fairness and would do more harm than good.

Norward Roussell, Leader of Selma Schools in Turbulent Time, Dies at 80

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

As the first black superintendent of schools in Selma, Ala., Dr. Roussell aspired to equalize educational opportunity, only to be fired amid racial animosities, protests and a school boycott.

Philadelphia Teachers Hit by Latest Cuts

By MOTOKO RICH

The state-appointed board that oversees the city’s school district canceled the teachers’ union contract and required them to contribute to health care premiums.

Court Gives Go-Ahead to Expansion by N.Y.U.

By ARIEL KAMINER

The Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court unanimously voted on Tuesday to allow for a major expansion in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Web-Era Trade Schools, Feeding a Need for Code

By TAMAR LEWIN

Dozens of the schools have sprung up around the country to teach computer programming, offering students a fast-paced curriculum and the promise of jobs.

As Apprentices in Classroom, Teachers Learn What Works

By MOTOKO RICH

A charter school training program reflects the belief that teachers, like doctors, need to practice repeatedly with experienced supervisors before they can take the reins in classes of their own.

At Florida State, Football Clouds Justice

By MIKE McINTIRE and WALT BOGDANICH

Police and court records and interviews with witnesses show that the Tallahassee police on numerous occasions have soft-pedaled allegations of wrongdoing by Seminoles football players.

International Education

Japan's Divided Education Strategy

By MICHAEL FITZPATRICK

The government wants to rewrite textbooks to make wartime history more “patriotic.” But at the same time, it wants to project an open, international image.

International Education

Turkish Reforms Entangle Education

By AYSEGUL SERT

Secularism in schools has been undergoing a transformation that signals a reticence on the part of the government to separate religion from politics.

Principal of Failing Brooklyn School Quits, Saying City Lacks an Education Plan

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

Bernard Gassaway, the principal of Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, offered Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Education Department one of its sternest public rebukes yet.

Plagiarism Costs Degree for Senator John Walsh

By JONATHAN MARTIN

The Army War College rescinded a master’s degree awarded to John E. Walsh of Montana after determining that he had copied large portions of a paper.

Wealth Matters

Giving Back to Your School in a Meaningful Way

By PAUL SULLIVAN

Donations to educational institutions are increasing. What to consider when your contribution is significant.

A Teacher Accused of Abuse Seen to Have Never Grown Up

By KIM BARKER and KATE TAYLOR

Sean Shaynak, a Brooklyn Technical High School teacher who faces 36 charges including sexual abuse and forcible touching, appeared forever stuck in high school to those who knew him.

17 Charter Schools Approved for New York City, Expanding a Polarizing Network

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

The decision by a state committee substantially increased the size of Success Academy, one of the city’s largest and most polarizing charter networks.

Iguala Journal

In Case of Missing Students, Hillside Mass Graves Point to a Death March

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

Witnesses said that students from a teachers college were apprehended by police officers, killed and buried in Iguala, Mexico, but their accounts fuel further questions.

How School Lunch Became the Latest Political Battleground

By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

Inside the Obama administration’s standoff with Republicans, the food industry and the nation’s lunch ladies over the future of the cafeteria.

Economic Scene

Why Aid for College Is Missing the Mark

By EDUARDO PORTER

The government strategy to subsidize higher education is failing at its core task: giving less privileged Americans a real shot at a college degree.

Emory Receives Archive of Work by O’Connor

By RICHARD FAUSSET

Emory University has acquired an important — and huge — trove of the Georgia-born author Flannery O’Connor’s papers and effects.