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Sit-in Over a Student Group's Suspension
A sit-in by a student group at Evergreen State College is in its second week, with students and administrators at...
English for Graduate Students
Going beyond TOEFL, U. of Alabama at Birmingham tests international graduate students on their ability to perform high-level academic work in English.
Assessing the P-16 Phenomenon
Most states have created councils to oversee education from preschool through college. Are they making a difference?
'Last Bite at the Apple' on Accreditation?
A year after Education Secretary Margaret Spellings abandoned plans to propose new federal rules governing higher education accreditation, under heavy...
How 2 Scandals Might Have Been Prevented
Furor at West Virginia U. over inappropriately awarded degree, and possibility of such a situation at VCU, may point to what happens if registrars don’t have clout.
The 'College City,' Defined
The quintessential college town is lush and lined with quaint boulevards. It's Ann Arbor, Mich., Charlottesville, Va., and Boulder, Colo...
Scared Straight -- by Poetry?
It sounds like a joke: "What's worse than prison? A poetry class." But for 25 teens, the sentence for trashing a former Robert Frost home was a mini-course with a Middlebury scholar of the New England icon.