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Why do some people choose to walk thousands of miles?

Can you calculate the amount of money that would be donated if five percent of the people who play Half the Sky Movement: The Game each give an average of $15?

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This word has appeared in 162 New York Times articles in the past year.

At least two high executives at New York University got big bonuses on leaving, and prominent faculty members have received big housing loans.

After years of trying to curb the power of school boards, some advocates of overhaul are backing board candidates in the hope that they will support their causes.

More Indian students are choosing to take the International Baccalaureate over their own national curriculum -- even those who are not planning on heading overseas.

In some New York neighborhoods, children not getting into activities, classes, sports teams and local schools has become a way of life.

The executive director of VH1 Save the Music Foundation, which helps schools that are facing cuts in music education budgets, says fund-raising is a creative career.

In the widening world of classes taught online, new technologies are helping to ensure that students on distant laptops are doing their own work.

New York City officials, to suit the more rigorous Common Core, plan to buy new English and math materials for kindergarten through eighth grade.

A former quarterback for the University of Montana was acquitted Friday of rape in a trial that riveted the city of Missoula.

The connections from preschool to reading proficiency to high school completion — a bare-minimum requirement in today’s economy — could not be clearer.

A collection of articles about young people that appeared in The Times during February.

Despite efforts to integrate other religions at Texas public schools, teachers are not doing enough to make their classes welcoming to all beliefs, a study has shown.

Students summarize information about a Twitter scandal by boiling down the main points into 140-character messages; argue for or against the idea of working from home; and write a narrative about pitching a viral video.

Parents of children trying to get into college have long used their wealth to try to sway admissions officers. But that doesn’t always work.

It’s too early to tell how or when the SAT will change, but the College Board’s new president has criticized the vocabulary and writing section in the past.

Four apostrophes are missing from these sentences. Where should they go?