Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act may have been “clarified” but there are concerns it could have a chilling effect on campus attitudes toward LGBTQ students and faculty across the state.
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When kids read for pleasure they build empathy and improve social relationships. Here’s how you could inculcate a love for reading in your kids.
Should cyberbullies be isolated and shamed? Or should they be helped ? Victims of cyberbullying could take to being cyberbullies themselves.
As senators begin revising No Child Left Behind, a new standardized test, PARCC, is being adopted by states to help prepare students enter college.
A tenured professor reflects on how her race and gender make her invisible to many.
A new study has found that second-generation immigrant kids have a unique advantage over first-generation or even third-generation immigrants.
Media reporting can not only create a perception of suicide clusters on university campuses, but it can affect the suicide rate in subtle ways.
A scholar finds black parents are homeschooling kids to protect them from racism and what they see as a Eurocentric education.
Liberal learning is in crisis and the onus is now on its proponents to show how it is relevant to students’ personal, professional and political lives.
With teachers leaving the profession in large numbers and a drop in candidates applying to teaching programs, it is time to take a fresh look at education reforms.
Kevin Carey’s new book, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere, envisions a future in which good education will be available to everyone everywhere.
One academic’s experience on how Wikipedia can help students become better writers, better researchers and even better thinkers.
The Teach for America applicant pool has been showing a steady decline since 2010. New research looks at the reasons why.
The Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act, which comes into effect this summer, aims to provide access to quality career development programs for people of all age groups.
STEM disciplines have come to rely heavily on international students, raising questions about the direction of US immigration policy. Should international STEM graduates be encouraged to stay?
What do figure building competitions mean? A scholar decides to use her own body as a site for learning and comes away with fresh insights for feminism and life goals.
At the root of today’s racial troubles on campuses is the past, when most American universities were intimately connected to slave trade and slavery. Harvard, Princeton, Brown were no exception.
Transgender students have a higher suicide rate on college campuses due to the harassment they experience. Now women’s colleges, such as Wellesley, are showing the way forward.
Monica Lewinsky has given a name to her harassment 17 years ago: cyberbullying. New research shows just how widespread it is.
Social media is being actively used in the public debate on Common Core, with an unprecedented 35,000 to 40,000 tweets each month.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has not only failed to close the achievement gap, but has led to schools resorting to corrupt practices in an attempt to show better test results.
Nearly US$ 3 billion in financial aid is left on the table each year, as students fail to fill out the FAFSA, the free application for federal student aid.
Racial tensions on college campuses may not be much different for today’s students from what they were even 36 years ago, argues associate professor of history at University of Oklahoma.
Classrooms are places of genuine human engagement, debate, thought and passion. Guns undermine the openness and vulnerability necessary for learning.
Knowing more than one language not only gives people an edge in the job market, but also develops more empathy and problem-solving skills.