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Peter M. Fisher / Corbis Should Professors Be Fired for Damaging a College's Reputation?
Dismissing faculty members who are perceived as harmful to a university’s public image is a growing trend—and many educators and activists are wary.
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Jim Young / Reuters Could a State Takeover Help Chicago's Struggling Public Schools?
The move could end up saving the district from financial collapse—or hurting kids’ education.
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Stewart Cohen / Blend Images / Corbis How Rich Parents Can Exacerbate School Inequality
Fundraising efforts often give their kids an academic edge.
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Seth Wenig / AP The Hidden Hunger on College Campuses
More than half of community-college students struggle with food insecurity.
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CCAC North Library / Flickr The Convoluted Profits of Academic Publishing
One company is changing the way research papers are being shared, but some professors worry about trusting the for-profit website.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Why Are Fewer College Presidents Academics?
Tim Wolfe, the former president of Mizzou, is one of a growing number of leaders in higher education with a business background rather than an academic one.
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Kevin Rivoli / AP The Globalization of America’s Colleges
While the influx of international students has largely had a positive impact on U.S. higher ed, some are wary of the negative implications.
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Sesame Street Workshop Sesame Street’s New Brand of Autism Education
The show’s newest initiative aims to change how people think about and discuss the condition.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The New Common App?
The Ivy League colleges support the soon-to-be-launched application system—but will it change the odds for prospective students?
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Allure of the Out-of-State Student
At public colleges, they pay significantly more tuition and help address budget gaps, but are they hurting the chances of in-state students?
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Eric Gay / AP Why Don’t Suburbanites Want Charter Schools?
Politics and personal preferences are at play.
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Steve Helber / AP The College President-to-Adjunct Pay Ratio
While almost all heads of universities clear more than six figures, the average part-time professor earns about $20,000 a year.
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Joerg Sarbach / AP The Educational Bridge to Nowhere
In a new book, Leonard Cassuto goes beyond the “Quit Lit” and offers a cautiously optimistic solution for cleaning up the mess known as Ph.D. education.
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Natacha Pisarenko / AP America’s Teaching Force, by the Numbers
The country is struggling to solve its shortage of classroom educators—sort of.
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Peter MacDiarmid / Reuters Why Summer Vacations Should Be Shorter
For parents, summer break often means expensive extracurriculars and an incredibly inconvenient schedule.
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Rubra / AP The Cost of an Adjunct
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they’re hired to instruct?
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Fabian Pittroff/Flickr/The Atlantic What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test?
The movement to opt out of nationwide exams is gaining traction—and forcing policymakers to rethink the role of such assessments in public education.
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Boston Public Library/Flickr The Unfortunate Fate of Sweet Briar’s Professors
For longtime faculty and staff, the sudden closure of the small liberal-arts women's college comes as a very gloomy surprise.
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Shutterstock Suburbia and Its Common Core Conspiracy Theories
Why middle-class white parents are up in arms about the new standards
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Scott Eisen/AP Photo Why Aren't More Ph.D.s Teaching in Public Schools?
They're highly qualified, and they need jobs. And yet fewer than one percent of all teachers have doctorates.
