By TRACY TULLIS
As bad as many students and parents may think New York’s method of matching students and schools is, it was much worse before economists from Duke, M.I.T. and Stanford attacked it.
By COREY KILGANNON
The event, an offshoot of the TED Talks conference series, was a showcase for felons who are continuing their studies while at the Ossining, N.Y., prison.
By SPENCER PARTS
Ella Cheng, who has been involved with student government, defeated Will Gansa, who ran a joke campaign focused on culinary changes.
By LISA W. FODERARO
Construction of the estuarium, which will occupy the end of the 840-foot pier between North Moore and Hubert Streets, is expected to begin in 2017.
DealBook
By VINOD SREEHARSHA
The success by Bozano Investimentos in raising money for its new private equity fund is another indication that some investors are looking beyond Brazil’s current economic travails.
By MOTOKO RICH
While higher salaries can be reached relatively early in some districts, in others it can take more than three decades to get there, the National Council on Teacher Quality says.
The Upshot
By BRENDAN NYHAN
A nonprofit seeks to encourage victims to come forward online and identify serial perpetrators who might otherwise go undetected.
By JOE COCHRANE
Two staff members at a prestigious international school appeared in court on Tuesday in a case that their defense team has said is completely fabricated.
By BEN STRAUSS and ZACH SCHONBRUN
The University of Alabama-Birmingham said it would terminate its football program, becoming the first university in the top college sports tier to do so in nearly 20 years.
By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
A $1.2 million donation from Steve Tisch, an owner of the N.F.L. team, will pay to have trainers or emergency medical technicians at all contact practices for New York City’s public high schools.
By TOM SPOUSTA
The hearing involving Jameis Winston and the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting in 2012 her would likely not have any effect until after the Seminoles’ season.
By JOHN MARKOFF
In 1966, almost a decade before the invention of the personal computer, he predicted that children would have access to personal tutors “as well informed and as responsive as Aristotle.”
By TAMAR LEWIN
A new report says that only 19 percent of students graduated in four years from most public universities and that only 50 of 580 public universities graduated a majority of their full-time students at the four-year mark.
By ARIEL KAMINER
Tiger Inn, a social club known for its rowdy, hard-drinking atmosphere, is being investigated for one of the emails, which included an explicit photo.
By EDWARD WONG
The strikes over low salaries and mandatory payments to pension plans began last week and now encompass a half-dozen cities or counties.
By MOTOKO RICH
Single-sex classes are increasingly common in the nation’s public schools, particularly in poor areas, prompting new scrutiny about their effectiveness.
The Upshot
By KEVIN CAREY
Admission rates are misleading: It’s not that fewer students are accepted; it’s that applications have run riot.
The Upshot
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Both sexes have ambitious goals for their career and family life, a study finds, but entrenched factors seem to hold many women back.