Education

Even if the early decision II news this week is good, students can’t just kick back and celebrate.

Before making it big, here’s where some of the world’s most successful women pursued higher education.

For more than three decades, grades in American schools and colleges have been going up, up, up. A’s are more common. Failure is rarer than it once was. At the same time, student achievement, as measured by standardized tests like…

Putting together a school meal isn’t easy. “It is a puzzle essentially,” said Lori Nelson of the Chef Ann Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes scratch cooking in schools. “When you think about the guidelines, there’s so many different pieces that…

An admissions expert at CollegeAdvisor answers a parent’s burning question.

Higher ed expert Jeff Selingo on what your senior, junior or sophomore should be doing at this point in the admissions cycle.

Virtual learning is here to stay. How to make the most of it.

Last year, Susana Beltrán-Grimm was visiting Hispanic families for a research project about parents and math, when she started to notice a trend. Parents didn’t want to talk about math with the Portland State University professor. Instead, they wanted to…

In the fall of 1918, Edward Kidder Graham, the president of the University of North Carolina, tried to reassure anxious parents. The Spanish flu was spreading rapidly, but Graham insisted the university was doing all it could to keep students…

How non-degree programs can help attract a more diverse array of students to a higher ed institution.