Lawmakers are negotiating on whether states should be penalized for cutting their higher-education budgets and whether Congress should create one new program for black colleges, or two.
In working toward sustainability, campus planners said at a conference in Montreal, they face obstacles like outdated notions about what wastes energy and professors' desire to hang onto their large offices.
A federal appeals court ruled that Colorado's higher-education coordinating board had discriminated against Colorado Christian University by denying it state funds for student aid on the grounds that it was "pervasively sectarian."
Looks at NASA's past, present, and future missions. It includes interactive tables and searches for earth, heliophysics, planetary, and astrophysics missions; information about dark matter and dark energy, planets around other stars, climate change, Mars, and space weather; science questions for NASA science missions; a "citizen scientist" page of resources to help citizens engage in scientific investigation; and expanded "For Educators" and "For Kids" pages. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The annual New Hampshire camping trip that used to be 14 days is now down to five, and there won't be any side trips to theme parks for Westborough teacher Deborah Harvell and her two teenage daughters.
The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The judge in the trial of convicted Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui says she told jurors that they made the right decision in sparing his life.
Nearly one-fourth of people in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina would refuse to evacuate for a storm if told to, a survey released Wednesday by Harvard University found.
When you visit ED.gov, why do you come -- what do you hope to accomplish? We are trying to identify the most important or popular tasks that people hope to accomplish at ED.gov, the main website of the U.S. Department of Education. Please help! Simply select the 5 tasks that are most important to you when you visit ED.gov.
In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law.
Maria Ferraguto is finding it difficult to relax this summer. She's too busy figuring out how to pay for her son Michael's senior year at the College of the Holy Cross.
Behind their down-home names, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so vital to the economy that the government scrambled to offer them a lifeline. But what exactly are they, and what do they do?
ED announced the award of a $1.5 million grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago for a national center to help minority institutions seek funding opportunities for projects that serve students with disabilities, especially in personnel development.
ED announced the award of more than $2.2 million in grants to school districts in seven states to help increase the number of Americans learning foreign languages critical to national security and commerce. The five-year grants were awarded to local educational agencies to work in partnership with one or more institutions of higher education.
Returning home after three tours of duty in Afghanistan, Derek Blumke was eager to return to college. But the Air Force veteran felt unwelcome at the University of Michigan as he tried alone to manage the transition from warrior to student.
Royal Caribbean Cruises' shares surged Tuesday after the cruise operator appeased investors with its announcement that it is slashing jobs and taking other steps to reduce annual expenses by $125 million.
Phil Mickelson, the No. 2-ranked pro golfer in the world, visited the ED to emphasize the value of math and science by showing students from Quantico, Fort Belvoir and Washington, D.C., how those subjects influence golf.
Berea College, which charges no tuition and only accepts applicants from low-income families, provides an unusual perspective on how universities should handle endowments.
As New York’s governor promised to pursue a low-cost student loan program, it remained unclear how to set it up to ensure that it does not encourage unnecessary borrowing.
THE STATE School Building Authority, which provides partial payment for school construction or renovation, is not obligated to play sugar daddy to free-spending cities and towns. Furthermore, if local officials can’t control their urges to build sumptuous schools, then state officials must do it for them.
Cruise operator Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. reported sharply lower second-quarter earnings Monday, blaming higher fuel prices, and said it would cut 400 jobs.
The new Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, said the Senate would pass the governor’s proposal to impose a ceiling on school property taxes within the next month.
Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Calloway spends his days turning visions from his youth into lively murals -- and at 112 years old, the images of his childhood are a window to another time.
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
For the past couple of years, I have taught news writing at two universities in the Boston area (no names, please). Most of my students are intelligent. But many are entitled, lacking basic manners and a sense of personal responsibility. From eating food to talking on cellphones to checking e-mail, students act as if they're in Starbucks , not a ...
For years I've invited friends to my summer beach cottage and provided all the food. Now with prices on the rise, I need help with the grocery bills. Is there a delicate way to ask for a donation or supermarket gift card? If not, what do you advise? J.B. in Millis
On June 12, 2004, my brother Eric was admitted to the emergency room at Mass. General Hospital, unconscious after what appeared to be a failed suicide attempt. His wife, Cheryl, had found him passed out near the floor of their bedroom closet, a wire wrapped around his neck and attached to the closet pole. Had she gotten home any later, ...
A week after they reached a deal on a new contract, the Westborough School Committee and Westborough Teachers Association fired a volley of unfair labor practice charges against each other.
Touching an octopus. Climbing a lighthouse. Calculating tides on Little Brewster Island. This isn't a teacher's typical week of summer vacation. But for a group of 26 Boston-area teachers, school had barely ended when their own intensive learning about marine science and the Boston waterfront started.
For the third year in a row, a number of communities northwest of Boston received only small boosts in local aid for education, as the state continued to adapt to a new formula for distributing money to local school systems.
Someday, some smart marketer is going to come up with a better way to pitch "environmentally-themed films" than simply calling them "environmentally-themed films." It's a sincere but not exactly sexy - or even vaguely provocative - come-on.
The Texas Board of Education gave final approval to establishing Bible classes in public high schools, rejecting warnings that such approval could lead to constitutional problems in the classroom.
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
WHILE MASSACHUSETTS may lag behind other states in financial aid for higher education (Page A1, July 13) , let's give praise where it is due: The Commonwealth provides generous college support to youth who "age out" of foster care at 18. These young people, who have been raised by the state, have long been granted free tuition to UMass, state ...
State lawmakers are seeking to strip the University of Massachusetts Building Authority of some of its exemptions from the state's bidding laws, asserting that campus construction should be subject to the same regulations as other public projects.
As parents who want a private education for their children struggle to cope with soaring fees, Max Davidson continues our new series that looks at classic local 'derbies' where state schools are giving the independents a run for their money. This week: Kent.
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird."
Moody's Investors Service foresees potential trouble for some institutions of higher education, particularly for small private colleges that draw locally, some community colleges, and regional or less-selective public institutions.
Advocates of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's ideas on how to make colleges more affordable and accessible are disappointed at the slow rate of improvement.
The nation's decentralized approach toward organizing its health-care work force could leave millions of Americans without adequate care, the Association of Academic Health Centers warned in a report released on Thursday.
Despite having access to more and more journal articles online, scholars are citing fewer and fewer discrete articles in their papers, according to a study published today in "Science."
Representative Charles B. Rangel said he would ask the House ethics committee to look into whether he had violated rules by using a Congressional letterhead to raise money for City College.
The finding is a step toward forcing property owners to sell their land as part of eminent domain proceedings to make way for the expansion of Columbia University.
During the past two school years, teacher Julia Keyse had to enforce an unusual rule in her kindergarten and first-grade classroom: No interrupting while she pricked Caylee's finger to check her blood sugar and adjusted her insulin pump.
They filled the cafe night after night. To the casual observer, it might have appeared to be a roomful of 20-somethings with enviable amounts of idle time.
The National Education Association spent nearly $285,000 in the first quarter to lobby on everything from the No Child Left Behind Act to charter schools and school vouchers, according to a recent disclosure form.
Virginia Commonwealth University faculty members and students told a task force that accepting research money from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA Inc. is unethical and risks scientific integrity.
An economist who says that the "Journal of Political Economy" has failed to acknowledge serious flaws in a 2007 paper on file sharing has taken his battle to the Internet.
The proposed new admissions policy would de-emphasize test scores and give the system's campuses greater flexibility in choosing their freshman classes.
The survey intends to identify any problems that Pell Grant recipients may face when they try to transfer credits and courses between institutions. Critics say they suspect other motives.
Stirring her morning coffee, lifelong Republican Grace Droog voiced her doubts -- and those of many evangelical voters -- about what she isn't hearing from John McCain in this year's presidential election.
Looks at national, state, and local governments in the U.S. Chapters focus on the federal government, state governments, local government, elections and the electoral process, nongovernmental organizations and institutions that influence public policy, and similarities and differences between the U.S. system of government and other forms of democratic government. (Department of State)
The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.
The University of Massachusetts at Lowell last week awarded scholarships to 10 Lawrence High School graduates who completed the UMass Lowell/Lawrence College Prep Program.
EDUCATION Franklin: Ready, Set, Kindergarten program, for children entering kindergarten in the fall, is July 21-25, and 28-31 at Jefferson Elementary School. franklin.k12.ma.us.
The Boston public schools yesterday decided to increase its breakfast and lunch prices this fall by 25 cents, following the lead of many districts statewide that are battling escalating food costs.
ED Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Doug Mesecar visited the Charter School for Applied Technologies in Buffalo, N.Y., today to present a $16,589,561 Charter School Program grant award to the New York State Education Department and the State University of New York (SUNY).
Secretary Spellings delivers the keynote address at "Excellence in Action: A National Summit on Education Reform" at the Walt Disney Contemporary Resort in Florida.
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain praised Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday in a speech to black leaders and outlined what he called honest differences with Obama over taxes, spending and education.
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