Education News from NY Times

A new state system will include teachers of subjects that are not typically evaluated.    

Students in air-conditioned classrooms have an unfair advantage over roasting peers.    

While newly minted university graduates face a tight job market, skilled vocational school graduates are in high demand.    

Millions of young people are seeking hands-on instruction in market-friendly skills. Private academies offering short, practical courses are filling the gap left by formal colleges and universities.    

The system, in which teachers will be rated in part on their students’ test scores, brought New York City in compliance with state law.    

After August, Texas’ curriculum support system, known as Cscope, will no longer be a source of lesson plans for the 875 school districts that rely on it.    

Because of the high cost, some colleges do a lot more than others to find and enroll low-income students, which critics of race-based affirmative action see as a way to encourage diversity.    

An investigation of three midshipmen has gone on for more than a year amid growing controversy over military sexual assaults.    

President Obama’s remarks in the Rose Garden came as Democrats and Republicans differ on how to stop the rate for federally subsidized student loans from rising on July 1.    

A conversation with Jeffrey Selingo, the author of “College (Un)Bound,” who argues that the higher-education system is both vital to the American economy and “broken.”    

“Barbie” by Scott, 18, from Phoenix, is the fourth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

Do we take pleasure in hearing about someone else’s pain? Do celebrities’ troubles somehow make us feel better about ourselves? Or, are tabloid scandals just entertainment?    

What are some of the costs associated with being a child star on Broadway?    

See what you know about the news of the day.    

This word has appeared in 12 New York Times articles in the past year.    

The third of the 12 winning poems from April’s Found Poetry Student Contest, this one by an 18-year-old from Arizona.    

Our favorite student comments from a lively discussion about the increasing problem of digital distraction.    

Stanford reported one of the highest admission yields this year, at 76.65 percent, surpassing many of the Ivy League institutions.    

This week’s Poetry Pairing matches “The Day” by Geoffrey Brock with the article “Tasty, and Subversive, Too” by Patricia Leigh Brown.    

Who was baseball’s ceremonial first pitch reserved for in previous decades? How do teams regard the first pitch these days?