The Room for Debate section* of the New York Times web site notes that Advanced Placement programs in US high schools have “grown enormously in the past decade” and ask a couple of good questions.
Does the growth in Advanced Placement courses serve students or schools well?
Are there downsides to [...]
Per the New York Times, the Crouch quadruplets of Danbury, Conn., not pictured at right, have a lot to celebrate this Christmas. All four have been admitted to Yale early, an unprecedented feat:
The Crouches’ perfect batting average represents a first for Yale — the first time [...]
Young children can learn more than people used to think, says a New York Times story on cognitive neuroscience.
The teaching of basic academic skills, until now largely the realm of tradition and guesswork, is giving way to approaches based on cognitive science. In several cities, including [...]
I understand why you were taken aback by that article in the "Style" section of The New York Times last week that described how charter schools have become a must-have among hedge-fund managers, billionaires, and other members of the social elite in New York City. The article bothered [...]
France will spend $1.1-billion on digitizing its archives, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Monday, in an effort to maintain control over its literary history. But the investment doesn't mean France is dismissing collaborating with Google, The New York Times reported.
An announcement earlier this year that the French government was' [...]
Dear Deborah,
I understand why you were taken aback by that article in the "Style" section of The New York Times last week that described how charter schools have become a must-have among hedge-fund managers, billionaires, and other members of the social elite in New York [...]
Less than two years after announcing that it would waive tuition for third-year students who pledge to spend five years working for nonprofit organizations or for the government, Harvard Law School is suspending the program — in part because almost twice as many [...]
This from the New York Times:26 Students Arrested in Protest Over Tuition Increases
Twenty-six students were arrested at San Francisco State University before dawn on Thursday after some students barricaded themselves inside a building to protest budget cuts and tuition increases across the [...]
Dear Diane,
I know you saw this article in last Sunday's New York Times.
" 'You get the religion fast.'"Mr. Petry, 38, and Mr. Greenblatt, 52, may spend their days poring over spreadsheets and overseeing trades, but their obsession—one shared with many other hedge funders—is creating charter schools, the [...]
A National Collegiate Athletic Association investigation into football recruiting at the University of Tennessee is focusing on the use of hostesses -- female students who have developed a reputation for being attractive and for playing a key role in convincing star athletes to enroll, The New York Times reported. [...]
J.K. Rowling’s magical Hogwarts keeps coming up on campus tours, complains Lauren Edelson, a high school senior, in the New York Times. At Middlebury College, the guide touts the chance to play “a flightless version” of Harry Potter’s sport, Quidditch. A Harvard admissions officer compares intramurals to the Hogwarts [...]
New York City’s hedge fund multimillionaires are backing charter schools, reports the New York Times.
“If you’re at a hedge fund, this is definitely the hot cause,” said Joe Williams, the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, a nonprofit group that lobbies for charters and is financed [...]
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a social-networking scavenger hunt over the weekend, locating 10 red weather balloons tethered across the country in less than nine hours, The New York Times reports. And all it took was a sort of pyramid scheme.
The contest was organized [...]
With the New York Times FINALLY getting the joke and reporting on what's REALLY going on in K-12 public education, it's easy to forget how bad the reporting was not so long ago (this was true across the American media, not just the NYT). Below are two articles from 2005, [...]
A New York State appeals court on Thursday rejected the use of eminent domain on behalf of Columbia University for its plan to build a new, 17-acre campus, The New York Times reported. Columbia has purchased most of the land it needs, but was relying on the state's use [...]
…about whether post-high school schooling, even a bachelors’ degree, is necessary for minorities. My writings on this site would suggest so, but this New York Times piece suggests otherwise. My problem: The article compares white/college to black/college but leaves out the racial comparisons between those who fail to graduate [...]
The story appeared 10 days ago on the front page of The New York Times, but judging from the flood of online comments and the letters to the editor (published [...]
As paternity testing has soared, more men have learned they’re not the fathers of the kids they’ve been raising. But non-dads may be stuck paying child support for other men’s children, reports the New York Times Magazine.
In most states, judges put the interest of the child above that of [...]
A foundation charged by federal authorities with illegally providing assistance to Iran has also been making grants for years to universities, The New York Times reported. The grants -- to support study and teaching on Persian language and culture -- went to Columbia, Harvard, Portland State and Rutgers Universities.
[...]The White House will today announce a major new effort to boost science and mathematics education, The New York Times reported. The activities will primarily focus on children, not college students, reflecting broad concerns in scientific groups about whether enough young talent is attracted to science and prepared to [...]
The University of California system is reeling. Crushed by the recession and the total collapse of governance in the Golden State, the UC system just raised student tuition by a mind-boggling 32 percent. A few weeks ago, New York Times Magazine interviewer Deborah Solomon sat down with UC Chanchelor Mark [...]
A federal agency report expected to be issued today finds that most universities do not report their researchers' financial conflicts of interest to the government as required, The New York Times reported. The report by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services examines how' [...]
Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican who is a leading critic of conflicts of interest in biomedical research, is focusing on the issue of journal ghostwriting. The New York Times reported that he has written to 10 medical schools, asking about whether they have policies that deal with issues [...]
