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Science, math and engineering departments at many universities — including Johns Hopkins, Catholic and Maryland — are abandoning or retooling the lecture as a style of teaching, worried it’s driving away students.
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Hundreds of private colleges and universities have opened in China in the past decade, in response to soaring demand for higher education in the world’s most populous nation.
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U-Md. President Wallace Loh says he knew constructing a new house would rouse emotions.
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Area schools find the Garden State is ripe for picking students looking to out of state for college.
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A Wisconsin teacher writes: “In Governor Scott Walker’s Wisconsin, teaching has been relegated from professional status to political fodder.”
With the Supreme Court agreeing to consider the role of affirmative action in college admissions, the executive director of admissions at CalTech discusses the role diversity plays in admissions.
Rick Santorum, who has said he would homeschool his children in the White House if he becomes president, sent five of his kids for a time to a cyber charter school.
The Rotunda is crumbling. But the $51 million repair project is one urgent need among many for a higher education system that is a source of both pride and worry for Virginia’s leaders.
Synthetic marijuana, commonly called “spice,” is widely used at the U.S. Naval Academy, some midshipmen say.
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