Education News from NY Times

How did you first learn about puberty, body issues and sex? What responsibility do parents and schools have to make sure that children get accurate information?

The college admissions season is wearing down, and for the first time in my (quasi) adult life, I don’t know what happens next.

What is the Global Owl Project?

Can you calculate the amount of money that Maureen O’Connor, the former San Diego mayor, lost every day in a decade of casino gambling?

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This word has appeared in 503 New York Times articles in the past year.

A new nonprofit seeking to rally interest for computer programming among young people is getting help from some big guns in the tech industry.

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center looks at six-year graduation rates for first-time college students who enrolled in fall 2006.

The writer Robert Greene retools the ancient idea of apprenticeship to suggest five ways for young people to succeed in their chosen fields today.

What would you get in line at 4 a.m. for? What kind of a line-waiter are you? Mostly patient? Or do you often get uptight and cranky? Have you ever cut a line?

What is sequestration? What types of government programs would be affected by the automatic budget cuts?

Candice Childress, a high school senior in Las Vegas, has been named a National Merit Finalist and narrowed her college list.

Can you choose the best synonym for the word “soupçon” as it is used in the article?

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This word has appeared in 8,430 New York Times articles in the past year.

Jacob J. Lew got $685,000 in severance pay when he left New York University, raising questions about why such a large bonus was given to an executive who left voluntarily.

Gov. Nathan Deal’s move to try to save the 138-school district, the state’s third largest, faces legal challenges.

It might be foolish of me to think that rejections are what I should be hoping for, but I don’t want to face a difficult situation in the future.

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