Education Archives

One Grad Faces Decisions in a Time of Recession

One year out of college, Miller-McCune fellow and economics aficionado Elisabeth Best examines her options for work or more schooling.

As hundreds of thousands of teachers and staffers brace for layoffs, there might be a federal bailout in their future, too.

A U.S. immigration court creates a new persecuted group in Europe: Christian home-schoolers.

How do you get kids to do their homework? Help them shape a positive but realistic image of themselves as successful adults.

The U.S. Library of Congress is blazing a trail in determining how to store an ever-expanding trove of information that never had physical form.

Will your child finish college? The answer may be as close as your bookshelves, or lack thereof.

Post 9/11, the United States has been chasing foreign-born scholars away, much to the nation's detriment.

While being involved in your children’s lives and studies is intuitively (and statistically) smart, some techniques are better than others.

Ethical quandaries at the nexus of science, technology and society are making it into high school curricula.

Without instituting a fifth-period forestry class, federal officials want school kids to get outside and observe what's there.