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To both honor another poet of color during Black History Month and commemorate President's Day on Monday, this week's Poetry Pairing matches "On Being Brought from Africa to America," a poem by Phillis Wheatley, whose writing was praised by President George Washington, with "A Rare Haven for Gay Men and Lesbians in Harlem" by Gerren Keith Gaynor.

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What value do stadium, event and team names have to a community? Is there any reason not to sell them to the highest bidder?

What is "degree inflation"?

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This word has appeared in 509 New York Times articles in the past year.

Three out of four public school principals believe their job has become "too complex," and about a third say they are likely to go into a different occupation within five years, according to a new MetLife survey.

The two largest ventures providing the online courses known as MOOCs are announcing partnerships with universities in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

The California university announced earlier this month that its five-year capital campaign took in $6.23 billion.

If Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the teachers’ union can’t reach an agreement, the proposal allows the state to establish an evaluation system for New York City’s educators.

Quick Draw, introduced in 1995, contributed $138 million to New York State’s education budget last year.

Nearly a third of the nation’s 2012 public high school graduates took at least one of the College Board’s Advanced Placement tests, according to the program’s annual report on Wednesday.

Tricia Pietravalle remembers her days in preschool: Playing in the sandbox, doing some painting, listening to stories. So when she met with her son’s preschool teachers, she was taken aback when they showed her “this whole grid of how they’re evaluating him, academically, socially, emotionally.”

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Bus service for New York City students resumed Wednesday, the first of three school days scheduled during what was supposed to be a weeklong winter break.