Derrick Lawson outside his building at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City last month. Mr. Lawson, 21, is making a second attempt at earning a college degree.
Derrick Lawson, 21, raised in a public housing development in Queens, felt “lost” in college the first time around. But now he hopes to have an associate degree by 2016.
The Office of Civil Rights found that the university, which is already enacting reforms, failed to respond quickly and fairly to students’ complaints.
Restoring three pieces from the federal Work Projects Administration at a hospital on Roosevelt Island presented many challenges.
Donna Taylor, the principal of the Brooklyn School of Inquiry, said she regretted telling a group of parents and children that “if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going to clean your own house.”
Creditors do not move to shut down a law school because keeping a struggling school alive means there is some possibility of repayment.
Several Jewish children had described years of anti-Semitic slurs, including Nazi salutes, swastika graffiti and “white power” chants, in the Pine Bush Central School district.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said his tactics of offering more help to failing schools, and providing social services to students and families there, differed sharply from his predecessor’s.
Smoking pot, some say, is now just part of everyday life at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Parents’ perspectives on marijuana use are as disparate as the nation’s mandates. Here, how five parents talk to their children about smoking pot.
New studies show that the effects of marijuana on young people may be greater than we thought.
Massive open online courses haven’t changed the world of education. The average user is a white American man with a degree already. But that doesn’t mean they’re failures.
Looking to join a sorority? You’ll need time and money to spare. And don’t be late for meetings and events (there’s a fine for that).
A study found that colleges were allocating more than half their investments — and almost two-thirds of the largest endowments — to alternative strategies such as hedge funds and private equity.
Concerns grew about the climate for women at the Yale School of Medicine after a sexual misconduct committee’s ruling to remove the cardiology chief went unheeded.
When the number of approved textbooks for Russia’s 14 million schoolchildren was slashed by more than half, one publisher with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin profited handsomely.
The parents’ visit to campus has become a hyper-organized extravaganza filled with big events and, often, big stress.
The two candidates for state superintendent are at odds over tenure rules, charter schools and evaluations — and so are people on the left across the country.
A former band member of the university’s celebrated Marching 100 was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of a popular drum major after a violent hazing ritual aboard a bus in 2011.
In an era when many parents want constant access to their children and students live in a digital social milieu, banning cellphones from schools is increasingly seen as counterproductive.
The family of Ikeoluwa Opayemi, 7, had sued the Milford school district after she was told to stay away from class for 21 days following a trip to Nigeria.
The gainful employment provision sets a rule based on the percentage of a program graduate’s income that can be used for loan payments.
Scott M. Stringer’s office said it had begun an examination of the “financial and operating practices” of Eva S. Moskowitz’s 32-school network and three other institutions.
The Educational Testing Service said it had reliable information that tests had been compromised for thousands of South Korean and Chinese students applying to American colleges and universities.
The mother of Dyasha Smith said her daughter was supposed to have full-time supervision on her bus and at the school, Star Academy in Cobble Hill.
Plenty of smartphone apps offer worthwhile and entertaining lessons.
Can women’s colleges survive the transgender movement?
In honor of National News Engagement Day, here are 50 ideas to help teachers bring current events into the classroom.
We should learn from the spymasters and assess students in person.
What can be done to make a career in education more attractive to men and people of color?
Checking in with college students, before and after their freshman year in New York City.
High-achieving women are returning to jobs they left to care for children or aging parents, taking advantage of help offered by the banks and law firms that first hired them. Also, going to school to become an umpire or referee: In the big leagues, at least, the money is good.
Average scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have been rising but large disparities among races and economic classes remain.
A complete summary of demographics and student performance over the past decade for every school in New York.
