Colleges looking beyond the lecture
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.
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.
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