Education News from NY Times

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The administration of Graham B. Spanier, the former president of Penn State, was marked by broad successes but also jealous protection of the university’s reputation.

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Why did the campus police use pepper spray, according to a statement from the police chief?

On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in an open-top car through Dealey Plaza in Dallas.

Law schools have long emphasized the theoretical over the useful, leaving law firms fairly resigned to training their hires how to actually practice law.

Harvard said on Monday that 4,245 students filed single-choice early action applications by its Nov. 1 deadline.

The Occupy movement, on California college campuses, at least, is transforming itself into a student-led crusade against increases in tuition.

At Baruch College in Manhattan, campus police arrested 15 students who refused to leave the main building, where CUNY trustees were meeting.

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The Second Mile will try to transfer its programs to other nonprofit organizations and will conduct an investigation into its actions relating to Jerry Sandusky’s alleged sexual abuse.

Take just a minute to remember a favorite teacher this holiday weekend. The nonprofit group StoryCorps is inviting people across the country to shower teachers with thanks the day after Thanksgiving. Hear the interview in which WNYC's Beth Fertig asks the StoryCorps founder David Isay why he chose to put the spotlight on teachers this year.

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Stanford University’s nearly $15,000-a-year Education Program for Gifted Youth will now bear the institution’s name, a move seen as a watershed in a growing field that is drawing scrutiny.

A possible strike by school bus drivers would affect more than 150,000 New York City children, prompting the city to buy hundreds of thousands of MetroCards for them.

A free program called Let’s Get Ready gives low-income teenagers help filling out college applications, writing essays, practicing interviews and preparing for the SAT.

Sixth graders in New York City regularly study the Middle East, but it is up to individual schools to craft the lessons. At Public School 101 School in the Gardens in Queens, a parent has filed a complaint about a lesson, written by a teacher, that told sixth graders the countries surrounding Israel “seek to destroy Israel and the Jewish people. They do not want peace.”

The University of California, Davis, placed two officers on leave after videos of their encounter with protesters were widely distributed over the Internet.

Colleges have continued to report their early application numbers for the class of 2016. Harvard released its tally of the number of students who applied to the college's newly returned early action program, on hiatus since 2007.

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