Students Paying More and Getting Less, Study Says
By KATE ZERNIKE
College students are covering more of what it costs to educate them, even as colleges are spending less on them.
College students are covering more of what it costs to educate them, even as colleges are spending less on them.
Few scholars of Chinese wrote more probingly about the language than Mr. DeFrancis, and fewer still created teaching materials that had so widespread an impact on generations of students.
The I.R.S. is undertaking a major effort to learn more about whether academic institutions are improperly using their nonprofit status to avoid paying certain taxes.
Arne Duncan, the Chicago schools chief, told the Senate that he would work for “real and meaningful change” in the nation’s schools if confirmed as education secretary.
College-bound procrastinators, beware: When state budgets get tight, application deadlines can tighten up, too.
Sports programs at some smaller universities have scaled back on recruiting trips, while some recruits and their families are considering the costs of living far from home.
The United Federation of Teachers announced that it had organized teachers at two New York City charter schools that are part of the Knowledge Is Power Program.
The New York City Department of Education has signed a $55 million contract with a company to overhaul the way it tracks information about students with disabilities.
The battle over whether to allow nativity scenes in schools will go to City Hall, as some try to persuade the education committee to support an effort to overturn the ban.
If executed, the plan will mean that one of the nation’s largest Catholic diocese will have closed nearly 40 percent of its grade schools in the past seven years.
The National Endowment for the Arts says in a report that it believes a quarter-century of precipitous decline in fiction reading has reversed.
Two years after a wave of protests over New York City’s first public school dedicated to the Arabic culture, state education officials are expected to consider greenlighting a Hebrew language charter school in Brooklyn.
On campuses across the country, students have been building practical inventions, starting novel businesses and generally alpha-testing their ideas.
After years of debate and research, M.I.T. has replaced a large introductory physics course with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive learning.
Addressing the alarming statistics about childhood obesity, schools are adopting programs that focus on health rather than competition.
For immigrant families, some charter schools have become havens away from American youth culture.
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