Education News from NY Times

Do you use sunscreen when spending time in the sun? Are you particular about which sunscreen you use? How much do you trust your sunscreen?    

Can you choose the word that correctly completes the sentence?    

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In a move that could open online classes to 1.25 million students at public institutions, a California company is forming partnerships with 10 large state university systems.    

This word has appeared in 995 New York Times articles in the past year.    

The tenuous state of the economy is a major reason for the earlier arrival of back-to-school shopping campaigns.    

Speaking at Cooper Union’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg urged the new alumni to give back to their school.    

In her final post, Candice Childress, a high school senior in Las Vegas, discusses her goal for a “subtle shift in concern, one that gives Dana Andrews his cultural due and highlights how William Holden came to define a brutal blonde American masculinity.”    

The second of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

My list of priorities as a freshman will remain open, because as I take ownership of the next four years of my life at Duke University, I expect the unexpected.    

Do you know anyone who was injured or killed in a drunken driving accident?    

What kinds of microbes did scientists identify in the kitchens they studied?    

Can you calculate the highest number of saves that the Yankees’ Mariano Rivera has attained in a single season?    

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This word has appeared in 101 New York Times articles in the past year.    

Anthony D. Weiner, the Democratic former congressman, was mobbed by the news media before and after an appearance in which he set himself apart from the other candidates running for City Hall.    

Some students are rebelling against a system they compare to “a factory that manufactures identical people,” and they have an ally in the education minister.    

Colorado’s highest court on Tuesday rejected a major challenge to how the state finances public schools, saying the system, while imperfect, conforms to the State Constitution.    

More than 30 state governments are organizing events to encourage enrollment in college savings and investment accounts.    

Evelynn M. Hammonds, the undergraduate dean, said her departure was not related to the e-mail searches that were carried out in the hunt for a leak.