On Campus
Campus Hate Lives on the Internet. Administrators Need to Catch Up.
The problems that play out over social media aren’t any less real.
Highlights
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CreditSandra Stevenson/The New York Times. Technology by Samsung. Which Classroom Setting Suits You?
We visited three third-grade math classes to see different environments at work: Montessori, Waldorf and public education.
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Your Money
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CreditRoger Kisby for The New York Times A Game to Help Students Pay the Right Price for College
Payback walks students through picking a college and paying for it, from choosing majors to finding work. Will it help them or scare them?
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CreditAndrew Sullivan for The New York Times Yale Endowment, Often a Pacesetter, Is a Laggard This Time
At a time when many large university funds are reporting gains in the midteens, Yale said it generated an 11.3 percent return for the fiscal year.
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CreditAssociated Press Veterans Agency Seeks to Scrap Ethics Law on For-Profit Colleges
The department says the conflict-of-interest statute, passed after scandals in for-profit education, is outdated, but others call it a safeguard.
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CreditGregg Vigliotti for The New York Times After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues
The schools chancellor and the mayor met with parent leaders to address questions about violence and bullying.
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Labor Force
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CreditVictor J. Blue for The New York Times Trump’s Apprentice Plan Seems to Need a Mentor
President Trump is seeking to increase the number of apprenticeships, which seems like a great idea — unless doing so leads to watered-down standards.
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On Campus
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CreditMaddy Price/Pratt Institute Get the Keg Out of the Frat House
Fraternities are growing in popularity, and are in desperate need of reform.
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On Campus
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CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times What Stunts Like Milo Yiannopoulos’s ‘Free Speech Week’ Cost
Despite budget cuts, Berkeley has already spent almost $1.5 million on security this year.
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Berkeley Students Speak Out About Free Speech
We asked students what free speech means to them, and about the mood on campus ahead of a series of speeches planned for next week.
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CreditScott Olson/Getty Images Students Look to Vending Machines for Better Access to Morning-After Pill
Stanford is the latest university to install a vending machine that sells emergency contraception after students spoke of difficulty obtaining the pill.
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Big City
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CreditBebeto Matthews/Associated Press Can Prep Schools Fight the Class War?
Trinity School’s headmaster sends shock waves through the city’s private-school world calling out insidious parental entitlement and self-interest.
Education Life
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Credit A Few Telling Freshman Trends
Heading to campus for the first time? Check out these results from the U.C.L.A. survey of 2016-17 first-year students.
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Pop Quiz
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Credit ‘Hamilton’ Hip-Hop (This Time by Students)
An American history curriculum lets young people write the narrative. Fill in the rap.
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Campus Disrupted
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Credit More Diversity Means More Demands
Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.
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Campus Disrupted
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Credit Liberal Lessons in Taking Back America
Political organizing is tedious. Change comes with dogged, on-the-ground work, not a list of demands, according to Harvard Resistance School.
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Campus Disrupted
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Credit Listening In on Portland State Activists
Students plan recruitment strategies for the new school year: Demand and disorient.
