State Budget Cuts Hurting Quality of Research
While the federal component of research funding remains federal, state budget cuts threaten U.S. research quality, educators say. ...
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Encouragement Boosts Minority Student Success
A tiny bit of encouragement at the front end of college proved stunningly effective in paring the minority achievement gap in one experiment.
Lee Baca Wants to Educate L.A.’s Prisoners
In this Miller-McCune Q&A, Los Angeles County's top cop Lee Baca explains why he wants to offer an education to tens of thousands of prisoners.
Petroleum Engineering Shows U.S. Students’ Hidden Prowess
American students' behavior defies the prevailing stereotype when looking at how they flock to the hot field of petroleum engineering.
‘State of Minds’ Puts Research in the Spotlight
"State of Minds" scours the University of California for important research and then does something special: It makes it interesting.
Budget Idea: Divert Money From Prisons to Schools
With a quarter of the world's prisoners in American lockups, an unlikely coalition ranging from the NAACP to Americans for Tax Reform wonders if we might be smarter to divert some of that prison money to schools.
The Cash Benefits of a Catholic Education
Better teachers in Catholic high schools and more semesters of math and language boost student earnings later in life, a study shows.
How Did Students Become Academically Adrift?
"Academically Adrift," a new book on the failures of higher education, finds that undergrads don't study, and professors don't make them.
Derek Bok on Fixing College Failure
Harvard University President Emeritus Derek Bok says college professors don't challenge their students because they don't know how.
Collective Bargaining and the Student Achievement Gap
A new analysis finds the best students are better off, while disadvantaged students are worse off, when teachers collectively bargain for a contract.