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Paramount Pictures Are 'Tiger Moms' Better Than Cool Moms?
A study says high-school students can be successful with or without a lot of parental pressure.
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naraekim0801/Flickr This Is What the New SAT Will Be Like
The exam overhauls the way it tests vocabulary, reading, writing, and math.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Colleges Could Get Rid of Fraternities
It's not that easy to banish the Greeks.
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Steven Senne/AP Photo When Schools Literally Take Food Out of the Hands of Children
A recent episode at a Salt Lake City elementary school highlights a common, hard-to-solve problem: What should schools do when students can't pay for lunch?
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Paramount Pictures Poll: Teachers Don't Get No Respect
People think respect has declined among teachers, administrators, students, and parents since they were in school.
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Damian Dovarganes/AP Photo 'Kids Are Different: There Are Lots of Different Ways to Educate Them'
An interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds about his new book, The New School.
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Camera Eye Photography/Flickr Study: Reading a Novel Changes Your Brain
College students experienced heightened connectivity in their left temporal cortexes after reading fiction.
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Gary Hershorn/Reuters This Online Class Wants to Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
An interview with Harvard professor Lisa Lahey about her upcoming EdX course, "Unlocking the Immunity to Change"
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Rick Bowmer/AP Photo Report: Schools in American Cities Are Still a Mess
Charlotte, North Carolina, is doing well, though.
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lmgadelha/Flickr College Presidents Make a Lot of Money—and That's Okay
A new report from The Chronicle of Higher Education shows that 42 presidents made more than a million dollars in 2011.
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Pat Wellenbach/AP Photo Men Take Computer Science; Women Take Cooking Classes
Recent demographic data from online education company Coursera shows a gender divide in course enrollments.
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Susan Walsh/AP Images It's Oddly Difficult to Find Good College Advising Online
Why isn't there one comprehensive website that can help students with all steps of this challenging process?
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Joerg Sarbach/AP Photo American Schools vs. the World: Expensive, Unequal, Bad at Math
What the latest results of an international test tell us about the state of education in the United States
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Matt Slocum/AP Photo 'I Don’t Know Anything': Why M. Night Shyamalan Wrote a Book on Education
An interview with the film director who believes he has the five keys to closing America's achievement gap
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Lisi Niesner/Reuters How Getting Into College Became Such a Long, Frenzied, Competitive Process
A history of the college application, from 1856 to today
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Patrick Semansky/AP Images American Math and Reading Skills Are Slowly Getting Better
But the achievement gap between whites and minorities is wide and persistent. What the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress scores say about American education today.
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Christian Phillips Photography 'Nature Is a Powerful Teacher': The Educational Value of Going Outside
At more than 80 Boston public schools, teachers are moving the classroom outdoors.
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nSeika/Flickr Study: 80% of College Students Say They Text in Class
Most students in a recent survey say digital devices are distracting, but they use them anyway.
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Jeff Pioquinto, SJ/Flickr Report: American Education Isn't Mediocre—It's Deeply Unequal
Students in Massachusetts are doing great compared to their international peers, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Students in Alabama, Mississippi, and D.C., however, are languishing.
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Joe Raymond/AP Photo Are Private Schools Worth It?
A new book argues that public schools are actually academically superior.
