High Tech and High Design, Cornell’s Roosevelt Island Campus Opens
The technology-focused graduate school, in a set of environmentally conscious buildings, is supposed to spur the development of the local tech sector.
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CreditLexey Swall for The New York Times Bannon Will Address Berkeley, a Hotbed of Conflict Over Free Speech
Stephen K. Bannon has agreed to speak this month at the invitation of a conservative student publication at the University of California, Berkeley.
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CreditBryan Anselm for The New York Times After More Than 20 Years, Newark to Regain Control of Its Schools
The State of New Jersey took over running the district because of low performance, but real educational progress has been slow in coming.
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The Education Issue
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CreditDevin Yalkin for The New York Times Education by the Numbers
Statistics show just how profound the inequalities in America’s education system have become.
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CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year
When the Trump Administration canceled the program allowing them to hold their jobs, immigrants with teaching licenses suddenly faced an uncertain future.
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CreditJacquelyn Martin/Associated Press Right and Left React to Betsy DeVos’s Changes to Campus Sex Assault Rules
Writers from across the political spectrum take on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed new rules for dealing with sexual assault on college campuses.
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Newsbook
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Credit 3 Books on the Importance of Early Education
As policy makers, teachers, and parents work to expand pre-K programs, here are three books on what children really need.
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CreditMike Theiler/Reuters Betsy DeVos Says She Will Rewrite Rules on Campus Sex Assault
The education secretary said in a speech that the Obama administration had gone too far and had forced colleges to deprive accused students of their rights.
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Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools
A federal education law passed during the Obama administration requires states to create a plan for school improvement, which Washington must approve.
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Credit Even With Affirmative Action, Blacks and Hispanics Are More Underrepresented at Top Colleges Than 35 Years Ago
How 100 top U.S. schools compare.
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CreditSam Hodgson for The New York Times As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check
Successful schools, analysts say, will increasingly be the ones that expand their programs to suit the changing needs of employers.
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On Campus
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CreditStephanie Gross/The Washington Post, via Getty Images My University Is Named for Robert E. Lee. What Now?
We need to change how we honor this former college president.
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CreditTodd Heisler/The New York Times Struggling Schools Improve on Test Scores, but Not All Are Safe
Schools in the city’s Renewal program improved more on state standardized tests in reading and math than the rest of the city’s schools.
Education Life
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Credit A Few Telling Freshman Trends
Heading to campus for the first time? Check out these results from the U.C.L.A. survey of 2016-17 first-year students.
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Pop Quiz
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Credit ‘Hamilton’ Hip-Hop (This Time by Students)
An American history curriculum lets young people write the narrative. Fill in the rap.
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Campus Disrupted
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Credit More Diversity Means More Demands
Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.
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Campus Disrupted
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Credit Liberal Lessons in Taking Back America
Political organizing is tedious. Change comes with dogged, on-the-ground work, not a list of demands, according to Harvard Resistance School.
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Campus Disrupted
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Credit Listening In on Portland State Activists
Students plan recruitment strategies for the new school year: Demand and disorient.
