Education News

The International Masters Program in Management takes its students on a worldly itinerary of contrarian ideas, turning the standard MBA approach on its head.

We have just observed the anniversary of the groundbreaking court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, and yet desegregation is effectively dead.

As automakers increase their efforts to design vehicles that are more fuel-efficient, college engineering programs are likewise adapting their curriculums, preparing students to build vehicles increasingly powered by batteries.

Dennis M. Walcott, the schools chancellor, devotes his Sundays to exercising, making waffles, singing in his church choir and cleaning the house with the radio or TV on.

A private company’s test flight will carry 15 student experiments onboard, including one involving winemaking.

Unused snow days will give many students days off at the end of the school year, but they will have to return midweek for the originally scheduled last day of class.

Quebec’s government passed an emergency law Friday restricting demonstrations and shutting some universities, seeking to end three months of protests against tuition increases.

An auditor reportedly found several serious violations with the administration of an SAT exam at a Brooklyn school, where the scores of 199 students were invalidated this week.

The city can start hiring new teachers and administrators to fill positions at 24 schools that will be closed and reopened by September, under a deal reached with the teachers' and principals' unions and announced late Friday. An arbitrator, meanwhile, will work quickly to decide whether the city's shuffling of staff violates the unions' contract. If the city loses the arbitration, its new hiring can be reversed.

A charter school in Brooklyn is indicative of a larger problem in New York City’s public school system, one of the most segregated in the nation.

Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott proposed on Thursday to offer buyouts to teachers in the "absent teacher reserve pool'' and to get rid of those teachers who receive unsatisfactory ratings two years in a row.

George Edwards, 17, a high school senior, writes about how the prospect of crushing student debt is affecting his future plans.

While they are duking it out with the city at the policy level, the public school unions are also hoping to kick it up on the political front, as part of a new coalition, New Yorkers for Great Public Schools, that plans to weigh in on the 2013 mayoral race. The group was formed to counter StudentsFirstNY, which has said it will inject $10 million a year, raised from hedge fund managers and venture capitalists, into the race to press for more policies like those adopted under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

In our preliminary look at admissions yields and wait-list offers, it seems as though Ivy League schools have much higher yields than others.

The fifth of our 11 winners in this year's Found Poem Contest was created using Walt Whitman's 1892 obituary. Check back daily through May 25.

Georgetown University, a Jesuit institution, is being rebuked by local bishops after inviting Kathleen Sebelius, the health secretary and a supporter of abortion rights, to speak at commencement.

L. Rafael Reif will lead the institute beginning in July, replacing Susan Hockfield.

A study by researchers at John Hopkins University found that as many as 15 percent of students miss at least one school day in 10, and have gone undetected because of the way attendance is measured.

Fill in the blanks of the first several paragraphs of the Science article, "Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds."

The city released hundreds of e-mail messages Friday, providing a look at one of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s major battles, the 2010 campaign to expand charter schools.