An image from “The Hunting Ground.” Professors at Harvard Law say the film misrepresents the case of a student there.
“The Hunting Ground,” which is to be shown this month on CNN, includes a “false picture” of an assault involving a Harvard law student, they say.
The Missouri state university system named Mr. Middleton as interim president to lead the four-school system as it responds to recent racially charged campus clashes.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke to students at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Boston on Thursday.
The departing education secretary visited a once-failing high school in Boston to highlight the progress that has been made under the administration’s signature school reform program.
In an essay, the mother said her daughter has suffered greatly after being banned from a suburban Chicago girls’ locker room.
Students at some colleges can use a service called Callisto to anonymously record the details of a sexual assault and later file a report if they choose.
With its shelter system overburdened, the city has resorted to placing some families in hotels on Staten Island, far from the schools they had been attending.
Many struggle with the arcana of setting up a foundation, and with questions on risk: Giving to big institutions is safe; social change is difficult.
While trading raunchy photos can be viewed legally as violating child pornography laws, few prosecutors want to ruin a teenager’s life for a one-time display of immaturity.
Zachary Kramer, 22, a former Wesleyan University student, admitted that he had distributed a party drug that left nearly a dozen students hospitalized last winter.
Many black students say that racial tensions were already woven into the fabric of everyday life at the University of Missouri, well before the recent cascade of events.
Students say they have been inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests at the University of Missouri to demand their universities provide a safe space for students of color.
Cultural shifts and economic factors are keeping millennial women home in numbers not seen since 1940, an analysis of Census Bureau data suggests.
Instances of racism and bigotry have ignited protests at colleges across the United States, and social media has amplified the outcry.
There are serious risks associated with teenagers exchanging nude photos but it isn’t the dangerous scourge that most adults imagine.
Mr. Duncan, who will step down from the cabinet in December, says big changes are needed to improve the state of America’s educational system.
After a sexting ring was discovered at a high school in Cañon City, Colo., some residents responded by taking the glut of attention in stride as news media coverage continues in the town.
Unlike in years past, positions on a college’s or university’s board of trustees now require much more than a checkbook and a rubber stamp.
The authorities were debating whether to file child pornography charges, including felony charges, in the sexting case at Cañon City High School.
Student protesters rallied at Oxford University’s Oriel College, calling for the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a British imperialist.
Over the past decade, the success of Alabama’s football program has become a powerful engine for the university’s economic and academic growth.
The suit, filed on behalf of five students at Achievement First Crown Heights, says the children were denied services and punished unfairly.
As part of a demand for salary increases, the City University of New York faculty members blocked the entrance to the Midtown Manhattan building housing the administration’s offices.
In tests, American students fall behind their peers in many countries, but adjusting for demography and access to resources gives a different picture.
Early-education experts are questioning the metrics used to measure the success of a public-private preschool program in Utah in which Goldman Sachs has invested.
The proposal for a new public high school in Bayside to relieve overcrowding was denounced at a meeting of Community Board 11, which then voted to oppose it.
Many schools have crafted policies that require transgender students to use private changing and showering facilities, drawing complaints of discrimination.
The student, who identifies as a girl, had not been allowed to change and shower in the girls’ locker room without restrictions.
A dispute in a Michigan district is part of a larger debate over state legislation that is pitting open-carry groups — and gun control activists — against those who favor concealing guns at times.
Amid an increasing emphasis on the importance of early literacy, libraries in New York are seeing attendance surge at the once-informal reading circles that are becoming fixtures of family routines.
An interactive program, developed for teachers and students, is aimed at training them to prevent young people from being drawn into violent extremism. However some religious leaders say it only focuses on Islamic extremism.
The colonial legacy of Lord Jeffery Amherst, the unofficial face of the college, has generated increasing opposition, but traditionalists are resisting calls for a change.
November 13, 2015
November 13, 2015
Here’s what experts say about the redesigned test, based on practice questions. Tip: Go to a good school, and read a lot.
Practice up with sample questions for the revised exam, coming soon to a test prep center near you.
More than 850 institutions, including research universities and top-tier private colleges, no longer require ACT or SAT scores. Who benefits?
With its alternative to the Common Application, a group of selective colleges hopes to unearth a more “authentic” applicant as well as improve access. Some say it will merely up the ante.
So you just realized the E.D. I deadline was this week? Relax. You’ve got a second shot.
This Michigan city is a place people leave. So when international students show up, arms open.
The fate of workers with advanced degrees from United States universities has become another spark in the contentious debate over immigration reform.
As globalization has made the world smaller, two-year colleges have gotten bigger. More than 5,000 international students from 200-plus countries attend Houston Community College.
In these programs, students hop from country to country, earning an undergraduate degree in the process.
An American teacher tries to instill independent thinking under the resistant eye of China’s education system.
A student brings the sport to SUNY. Move over, Ralph Lauren, polo has gone public.
Ira Chaleff, author and management consultant, on the need for fostering intelligent disobedience.
Beware! Five classes that aren’t what they seem: a breeze.
Pertinent specs on the film “The PHD Movie 2: Still in Grad School.”
Attention shifted away from Detroit after the bankruptcy. But for five high school students, life has moved on, sometimes in unexpected ways, as the city struggles to get back on its feet.
The dumbing down of America? Not quite. Consider the academization of leisure: casual learning propelled by web culture, a shifting economy and boomers with money.
New York City parents of current and former Success Academy students describe a learning environment that was a godsend for some children and a grind for others.
Many educators believe that children need to learn emotional intelligence to reach their full academic potential.
A unique educational collaboration in Long Beach, Calif., raises college admissions and graduation rates for the poor and underprivileged.
Campus radicals are often spoiled and self-dramatizing, but they also do have something to protest.
