Kids, listen up: don't start dropping out of high school just because the Tumblr CEO David Karp, who just sold his Internet company to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, had neither a high school nor a college degree.
The two-time presidential candidate just launched a home schooling curriculum which promises to get your elementary school student up-to-speed on the hijacking of the Constitution in no time. Seriously. It promises that. And so much more.
There is a change in the venerable Scripps National Spelling Bee, which will take place May 28 to 30 near Washington, D.C. Spelling is not enough. There's a vocabulary portion of the competition, now, too.
Welcome to the future of education where your textbook—and therefore your teacher—knows exactly how much of your homework you did, how, and when.
Seen that "80 percent of New York high school graduates can't read" headline? The prospect of a failed liberal metropolis is tempting, but it's also wrong.
To demonstrate just how divided we are politically, the Daily Show host took Republicans to task over their resistance to spending on universal preschool — and their desire for more spending on the military.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
When President Obama played with pre-school children in Decatur, Georgia on Valentine's Day, one "brave" little girl was not impressed by the president, or so Daily Intel's Dan Amira would have you believe.
In a speech to promote his State of the Union education plan, President Obama framed it in a way to appeal to Republicans: It saves money. But the question is not whether it's a good idea so much as whether it can pass the Republican-controlled House.
Of all the places in the New York City government to find corruption, you'd never guess it would be the school bus system. But according to The New York Times, it's full of it.
When you go to the doctor, do you want your doctor to say, "How'd I like med school? I graduated early, breezed right through that business."
Parents are paying tutors to do their precious offspring's work for them! Clearly, this is against the rules. But it's happening anyway.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Here's a modest proposal: Let's dose up kids stuck in low-income schools with Adderall, even if they don't have A.D.H.D, to compensate for the advantages enjoyed by kids in richer schools.
We've read a lot about cheating in the months since 71 students were suspended for sharing test answers at one of New York's top high schools, but some of the most illuminating reporting was The New York Times' coverage of students' "moral and academic math."
Coming in with an average SAT reading score of 496, 2012's graduating seniors have the dubious distinction of having attained the worst reading score since 1972.
Talks broke down between the Chicago Teachers Union and the public school board on Sunday night, heralding in the city's first strike in 25 years.
Since we outsourced math to the machines, we do a lot less active math in our daily lives. Who's really bearing the brunt of all this math-apathy or, sometimes, even math-fear? The children. The children are not learning the math.
If investment in education is correlated with business competition, then the U.S. better watch out: India and China are on our tails as far college graduates go, according to this chart by research institute Center for American Progress.
A survey released at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver figured out that wealthy, white fraternity brothers are the "happiest" college students, but there's one great equalizer between them and the rest of the not as "happy" students: binge drinking.
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A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
With the award of No Child Left Behind waivers to Wisconsin and Washington State, more than half of U.S. states are now exempt from the signature Bush era education law, but that doesn't mean they're free from the standardized tests it relies on.
When the Department of Education announced new rules requiring for-profit colleges to show they were placing graduates in jobs or else lose federal funding, the institutions criticized the regulation as arbitrary, and over the weekend, a federal judge agreed with them.
A former dean at Purdue University has withdrawn a pledge of $1 million to the school in protest of the Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' appointment to be the school's next president
Someone has unearthed footage from the early times of man, when beings were only just starting to confront the complicated realities of scientific experimentation and wearing lipstick at the same time.
Some of us never forget the first sentence we conjugated. Others of us are, like, LOL, WTF?
This is the worst trend ever: Afghan police say yet another poisoning attack at a school -- the fourth this year and the second in a week -- has put 160 female students in the hospital as Taliban militants try to keep women from getting an education.
Every single person interviewed for a story about a secret gay club at evangelical Biola University said they wanted to open a dialogue about the university's relationship with its gay students, but nobody can figure out how to get that conversation started.
If you haven't heard, Naomi Schaefer Riley has been sacked by The Chronicle for Higher Education for her two, trolling blog posts about the elimination of black studies in universities. But that hasn't stopped some of her defenders from taking various routes to defend her racist posts.
It'd be a sad day for all of us if we took Naomi Schaefer Riley's recent exercise in trolling and race-baiting assertion that universities should eliminate their "irrelevant" Black Studies programs seriously. So we didn't.
When Worldreader, a nonprofit organization, sent 600 Kindles to Ghana, USAID found that the devices gave kids there more access to books, better reading scores, and access to international news. The only drawback, it seems, is that a little under half of those e-readers broke.
High school. What we remember of it is generally fond, if slightly uncomfortable, sort of like the time we were shoved into a locker and left there until, happily, we were rescued by our best friend.
Nearly 900 high school seniors got an email this weekend congratulating them on their admission into UCLA, even though they were actually still on the waiting list.
Parents are taking out loans to pay for their children's educations. That's been happening for years, you say? Well, yes. Except now the loans are being taken out for high school educations—and even kindergarten.
Being a parent is hard. Being a parent in New York City, where if you don't get your kid into the right preschool or kindergarten you've pretty much ruined the kid's chance of getting into an Ivy League university and having a successful, productive life (or some seem to think), is even harder.
A new study of large school systems shows that the racial gap in the punishment of students is similar to the disparities found in the criminal justice system for adults.
Now that Apple's latest media disruption announcement has been marinating for a day, education experts and publishing pundits are starting to ask some curious or (dare we say) suspicious questions.
Teachers and fanboys alike gasped, when Apple announced its latest disruptive foray into a new media space revealed at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museumon Thursday morning: a textbook business and self-publishing platform.
Apple's next big announcement is scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 19th, in New York City's Guggenheim Museum, and is anticipated to be about getting into the textbook business. From there the speculation gets baroque.
The invitation is finally out for the latest hotly anticipated Apple announcement in New York City, will reportedly "showcase a new push by Apple into the digital textbook business."
The well-loved education startup Codecademy is tapping into what appears to be a watershed moment for the inevitable spike in demand for computer science skills.
A hardcore ex-porn star reading to first graders isn't the best idea, but apparently Entourage is just fine.
Today The New York Times introduced yet another inequality that distinguishes the have-nots from catching up to the haves: the "app gap."
Federal officials will grant waivers on No Child Left Behind in exchange for reforms
Does that help explain why women are earning more degrees than men?
But there's still pretty of room for optimism, according to survey figures
Benedict Garrett can return to the classroom after being suspended for his X-rated resume
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