Education News from NY Times

An indoor cycling gym, Cyc, is the first brand to target college students specifically.    

In a toy industry increasingly turning to high-tech gadgetry and movie tie-ins, the Melissa & Doug company has thrived by sticking to the basics.    

Agreement on how American schoolchildren should read and write is much easier to arrive at than agreement on what they should read and write.    

Are new standards really leveling the playing field? Or is the game prearranged so that many, if not most, of the players will fail?    

Readers react to a proposal for a longer school year and day.    

The use of transfer rules to eliminate many of an athlete’s preferred options illustrates the big-business mind-set of college sports and the control that coaches have over players.    

Rio Grande Valley residents are awaiting a new university that will replace Brownsville and Pan American.    

A small but growing number of chronically ill students are attending school virtually with robots, which stream two-way video to connect them to the classroom.    

Spelling Bee champs, tech wizards, guerrilla filmmakers and Broadway stars: welcome to another edition of our monthly round-up of the latest articles and multimedia features published on NYTimes.com about young people.    

“Things to See” by Brian, 16, from Hauppauge, N.Y., is the ninth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Who has been compiling a huge database of calling logs of Americans’ domestic communications for at least six years?    

What do you think will be the “song of summer”? What are you listening to these days? Why?    

Where should the semicolon in this paragraph go?    

This word has appeared in 141 New York Times articles in the past year.    

As we’ve experimented with the C.C.S.S. over the last two years, we’ve been aware of how politically charged their implementation has become. Here’s what we’ve done and why. Please tell us your thoughts and describe your experiences with the standards so far.    

The legislation, which eliminates 70 programs, is intended to reduce “the federal footprint,” said its sponsor, Representative John Kline.    

The president said he would ask for changes to the E-rate program so that 99 percent of schools could upgrade to high-speed broadband and wireless service.    

“Fit” seems to be the most overused word in the college search process. But the campus tour, my daughter and I have found, is a helpful way to try the college out for size.    

The last Poetry Pairing of the school year matches “The Gulf, 1987″ by Deborah Paredez, and the article “New Summer for Shore Residents, but Not as Before” by Peter Applebome.    

“Architects” by Alison, 23, from Boston, is the eighth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.