Financial Pressures Ease on Students, Studies Say
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
It was unclear whether the changes marked the start of a shift toward better news on the economics of higher education or just a temporary pause in more worrisome trends.
Wellesley's net-price calculator is simpler than the typical one. As a result, most students who start using it finish the process, in a few minutes.
It was unclear whether the changes marked the start of a shift toward better news on the economics of higher education or just a temporary pause in more worrisome trends.
Because Ivy League eligibility is intended to expire after four years, the senior Alex Rosenberg withdrew from classes so he could return to the basketball court for Columbia a year from now.
Federal officials want states to ensure that poor and minority students will not be disproportionately taught by inexperienced educators.
A network of private schools on Monday called for a day of protest against Ms. Yousafzai, 17, and her memoir about being shot by a Taliban gunman after pressing for girls’ rights and education.
Former Gov. Sonny Perdue testified during the trial of 12 Atlanta educators whom prosecutors have accused of participating in cheating.
Parents, students and school officials have joined a national protest of the consequences of Common Core testing.
Dozens of colleges have started programs designed specifically to get black men enrolled and help them graduate.
The magazine will announce during its Women of the Year Awards dinner a collaboration with nonprofits to raise money for girls around the world to help them attend secondary school.
Oakland International High School in California is one of a few schools in the country helping child migrants build better lives than the ones they left behind.
“Celebrating the Music of Marvin Hamlisch,” at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, N.Y., will star several students from the college’s joint program with CAP21, a conservatory in New York City.
Andrew Fryberg, 15, died of wounds sustained when his cousin, a freshman at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, opened fire in the cafeteria two weeks ago.
Professor Price was a Rutgers scholar with a deep affection for Newark, a city he wrote about, taught about, promoted and defended.
The agreement between the de Blasio administration and the teachers’ and principals’ unions came just before a deadline for the city to submit plans to the state for turning around the institutions.
College sports have given Kenneth W. Starr, now president of Baylor, a second act in public life, as a major player in the debate over the compensation of athletes.
Seven of the eight faculty members who were dismissed in late September from the Episcopal institution in Manhattan will return to their classrooms on Monday.
Harvard acknowledged this week that it had used hidden cameras to photograph classes, poking a sore spot created by the news last year that it had searched faculty members’ email accounts.
Mariangela Kefalas was fired a week after telling her supervisor at International Preschools that she had seen Malthe Thomsen touching students inappropriately.
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.”
A Nepalese group is trying to fill a gap in scholarships for poor rural students who have the ability to excel in high school but lack the money to do so.
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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.
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