Education News from NY Times

An investigation into whether the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill routinely botched sexual assault and harassment complaints is the latest in a series of such allegations against other schools.

A mother of a child at an Upper West Side elementary school learned of the December episode while perusing a Department of Education report about PCBs posted online.

Besides Kent State, other high-profile cases included those of Bernhard Goetz, the subway vigilante, and a pair of fired baseball umpires.

The board of trustees met with the expectation of making a decision on whether to end the college’s policy on free tuition for undergraduates, but left saying they are still reviewing options.

Columbia University says a well-repeated student’s statements about the popularity and cost of a new offering in the dining halls were not very accurate.

This month: creative uses of Times visuals, from video to photography to maps, to practice spoken and written language … and your dance moves.

State officials estimate they will lose $9 billion in federal aid and are trying to anticipate where those cuts will hit hardest as they wait for details from Washington.

Dale J. Stephens, an author and vocal proponent of self-directed learning, challenges the notion that college is the only way to become successful.

Can you identify the literary device found in the sentence?

This week’s Poetry Pairing matches “One Girl of Many,” a poem by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, with “Taking the High Road” by Abby Goodnough.

Are many seniors so “underscheduled” that the year is a waste and might be better spent in an internship, or going to college early? Or, does senior year play an important emotional role in college readiness?

How many LED white lights are included in the public art sculpture?

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Columbia University students may be hoarding jars of the chocolate hazelnut spread, to the tune of thousands of dollars a week.

In this lesson, students watch animations of the H.I.V. life cycle, sequence infection stages, and illustrate those stages. Then, students use their illustrations to demonstrate how the drug AZT counteracts the virus and relate H.I.V. mechanics back to fundamental virus and cell biology.

Brian Rosenberg, the president of Macalester College, explains why campus visits could make the difference between acceptance and rejection, and reveals two statistics all students should know about their prospective colleges.

If you could have any achievement, in sports or elsewhere, caught on camera for the world to see, what would it be?

When did the Dow Jones industrial average reach a record high?

Can you calculate the percentage of Cooper Union’s yearly loss now that would be covered if each of its students paid $10,000 in tuition?