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Graduate students have started their walkout at Columbia and Yale Universities.

By a substantial margin, graduate students at the University of Minnesota have voted down a plan to create a union of teaching and research assistants.Two-thirds of the 4,461 eligible graduate students at Minnesota's Twin Cities and Duluth campuses voted in the elections held last week. The union won the backing of 1,296 while 1,779 voted against it. State officials released the results Monday.

Elementary school students perform better when their teachers have "completed the training that leads to certification," Stanford University researchers reported in a study released Friday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. The researchers, led by Linda Darling-Hammond, said the study was the first to examine the relative effectiveness of formal teacher education programs and those that put teachers into classrooms with less formal training, like Teach for America.

Leaders of the AFT's college unions plan opposition to David Horowitz, cooperation with the NEA, and new organizing efforts.

Teaching assistants at Columbia and Yale vote to strike; students walk out of classes at Emerson to back faculty union.

A Berkeley dean talks about taking Hampshire's top job, politically active campuses, and becoming one of the few openly gay college presidents.

Harvard University found that Lawrence H. Tribe committed a "serious lapse" by failing to credit the work of another scholar in a book Tribe, a law professor, wrote 20 years ago, the Associated Press reported. But the inquiry also found that Tribe's error was not intentional.

Claremont Graduate U. and Vanderbilt hope new types of courses will give their doctoral students a broader perspective.

Students are deeply committed to exploring their spiritual and religious lives, but don't get much help from colleges, researchers say.