Colleges looking beyond the lecture

(Mark Gail / THE WASHINGTON POST)

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.

The other side of higher ed in China

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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.

‘Wallace, you have a crisis here’

(Mark Gail / The Post)

U-Md. President Wallace Loh says he knew constructing a new house would rouse emotions.

N.J.’s student drain is region’s gain

(Sarah L. Voisin / THE WASHINGTON POST)

Area schools find the Garden State is ripe for picking students looking to out of state for college.

National Education

What’s wrong with D.C.’s facilities/charter study

A study meant to identify “service gaps” between the supply of and demand for “performing seats” in D.C. traditional public and charter schools is flawed in methodology, analysis, and recommendations, the authors of this post argue.

Teacher: ‘Tis a shame (that education has become so political)

A Wisconsin teacher writes: “In Governor Scott Walker’s Wisconsin, teaching has been relegated from professional status to political fodder.”

College admissions: How diversity factors in

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.

U-Va. Rotunda waits in line for repairs

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.

Crackdown at Naval Academy

Synthetic marijuana, commonly called “spice,” is widely used at the U.S. Naval Academy, some midshipmen say.

College Tour ‘10

See our map of where high school students are visiting colleges and share your own stories with us.