Education News from NY Times

How many commas should there be in this sentence? Where should they go?

What did Google acknowledge on Tuesday? What are some of the requirements that Google has to fulfill as part of this week’s settlement?

See what you know about the news of the day.

This word has appeared in 195 New York Times articles in the past year.

The second day in the trial of two high school football stars accused of raping a drunk 16-year-old girl was dominated by text messages unveiled by the prosecution.

Ousting the University of Virginia president last year was “a failure of judgment and, alas, of common sense,” the American Association of University Professors said in a scathing report.

Gov. Robert Bentley signed a law on Thursday granting tax credits to families who want to send their children to private schools or better-performing public schools.

The Boston School Committee approved a plan designed to allow students to attend schools closer to home.

The Lens blog invites people age 14 to 18 to submit photos for their “My Hometown” project by May 1. Learn more, and find related ideas for making this invitation a starting point for rich project-based learning.

Did you have a transitional object, like a special blanket or stuffed animal, as a child? What do you remember about it? What role did it play in your life?

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday, this week’s Poetry Pairing matches “Irish Poetry,” a poem by Billy Collins, with “Lost in Ireland” by Matt Gross.

Who is the new pope? Where was he archbishop?

Can you choose the word that best completes the sentence?

See what you know about the news of the day.

This word has appeared in 109 New York Times articles in the past year.

The university offered a qualified apology for keeping the searches, which refocused attention on Harvard’s largest cheating scandal, secret from most of the employees involved.

Will a new New York City campaign that shames teenage mothers work? In your experience, what works best to motivate teenagers to change behaviors in general?

In this lesson, we’ll help students investigate the science and myths about added sugars. How unhealthy are they? What happens to sugar when ingested? And how much sugar do we actually consume?

What “important problem in the world” would you like to solve, if you could, through scientific inquiry?

Go ahead and ask about the food, but do not ask for your tour guide’s SAT scores, writes the dean of admission of Connecticut College.