My Perfect Imperfect Gap Year
Taking a break from college to surf, wash dishes and, most important, break away from Mom and Dad.
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CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times Education Life
It Takes a Suburb: A Town Struggles to Ease Student Stress
Lexington, Mass., is fighting the joy-killing, suicide-inducing performance anxiety so prevalent in turbocharged high schools. It has not been easy.
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CreditCharlie Mahoney for The New York Times Learning to Think Like a Computer
Computational thinking — approaching problems the way a programmer would — is captivating educators, from kindergarten teachers to college professors.
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CreditDavid Plunkert Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming
Just about everybody these days wants computing skills. To get some coding under your belt, there are options aplenty online, in college and at boot camps.
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CreditMaria Danilova/Associated Press Betsy DeVos Calls for More School Choice, Saying Money Isn’t the Answer
In a speech at the Brookings Institution, the education secretary rejected the notion that money was a panacea for the challenges facing public schools.
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CreditEdmon de Haro Middlebury, My Divided Campus
To one side, free speech is paramount. To the other, inclusivity is. To a professor caught in the middle, there’s a bridge.
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CreditSalzburg Global Seminar This Is Not Fake News (but Don’t Go by the Headline)
Paul Mihailidis, director of a new graduate program on civic media at Emerson College, answers questions about news literacy.
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CreditChristopher Smith for The New York Times College Is the Goal. The Problem? Getting There.
For working-class students like Nate, Zac and TaTy, the road to college is unfamiliar and rocky, and even imagining oneself on campus can be an obstacle.
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CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times Supreme Court Rejects Education Minimum Applied by Gorsuch
The justices said schools should not be satisfied with minimal educational progress for disabled students, a standard Judge Neil M. Gorsuch has been criticized for using.
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CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times Where Halls of Ivy Meet Silicon Dreams, a New City Rises
Focusing mainly on advanced technology and the sciences, three of the city’s biggest academic building projects in years will soon open for business.
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CreditSmith College Mary Maples Dunn, Advocate of Women’s Colleges, Dies at 85
Ms. Dunn spent most of her career at women’s colleges, which had been established long before women were admitted to many universities throughout the United States.
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CreditChristopher Gregory for The New York Times CUNY to Revamp Remedial Programs, Hoping to Lift Graduation Rates
Administrators are trying to make necessary catch-up classes at community colleges less of a stumbling block toward earning a degree.
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Opinion
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CreditVictor Kerlow Will Dropping the LSAT Requirement Create More Miserable Lawyers?
If applying gets easier, legal education as an uninspired default could become even more common.
