Playing With the Truth: When Alternate Reality Gets Real
In Chicago, high school students went searching for an imaginary girl's father. After a while, they started looking for the real one.
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Revenge of the Rabenmutter: No Sex for You
You want to know which places are dying or failing? Look at the educational attainment rates of women.
Breaking Away: Why Several Top Public Universities Are Going Private
Many are worried that as public universities gain freedom, they will end up sidelining broader goals such as access and affordability.
Have Pencil, Will Take Your SAT for $200
When a standardized test plays such a big role in determining who gets into what college, it's hard to tell who's being cheated.
A Journalism Program That Offers Students Internships With Prestige, But No Paycheck
Colleges have used internships as a way to prepare their students for the professional world, but they’re also collecting tuition for unpaid programs.
What Makes You So Smart, Jeremy Johnson?
Noah Davis talks to one of the co-founders of 2U about "disrupting" education, being really bad at things, and being really, really good at things.
Can We Send More Low-Income Students to College Just by Instilling a Sense Competence?
New research unravels the difficult relationship between motivation and choice. Without a feeling of competence, it turns out, the presence of choice can drive people away from a given task.
Is Hacking the Future of Scholarship?
Once scholars begin—and the day is coming—hacking devices to find out more about influential people, the courts and the academic community will be faced with privacy decisions to make.
Collect Mentors and Make True Friends: Advice for New College Students From Sociologists
College can be a bewildering new challenge, but a bit of advice can go a long way.
Why Are Public Universities Failing Our Neediest Students?
Chasing prestige and battered by state funding cuts, many public colleges and universities with a historic responsibility to provide access to an affordable education have turned to “financial aid leveraging,” offering wealthy or high-scoring students discounts on tuition.