'Toss a coin' to choose students
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Interviewing would-be students is so unreliable universities might as well toss a coin, an admissions expert told MPs.
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A number of matchups involving local schools this afternoon promise to be spirited and intriguing, hard-hitting and pivotal.
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You don't have to be a hoop junkie to handicap the Ivy League race. Just go with a Princeton-Penn quiniela. The Tigers and Quakers have monopolized the Ivies for more than a generation.
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Who goes there? Put money in the bowl.
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Students at a college in Chile use a bespoke video game to learn about about team-building.
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By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ  With their newly minted high school graduates headed off to college this fall, millions of parents face two agonizing prospects. One is coming up with the first tuition check. The other is buying their freshman a computer.
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Pupils at four primary schools are being given the choice of starting lessons at different times of the day.
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The country's students are up in arms about a new government educational quota policy. But is merit all that counts in such a rigidly divided country?
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Computer-based matching system helps students to find the most compatible roommates.
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When the toss is perceived to be important enough to be able to influence the match, there is a moment when the coin seems to hang in the air, and the possibilities of the day ahead are crystallised in the minds of all who are present.
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By Rupa Shenoy  rshenoy@@dailyherald.com  It's a question that defeats many an adult: How can one person make a difference?  But when a sixth grade elementary class from West Chicago tackled the question, the students came up with a nationally award- winning answer.
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An academic real world -- plus, a chance to win $1,000.
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Calls for a national qualifying exam as research shows wide variations in graduates' performance
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A small publisher of college textbooks plans to offer free electronic textbooks to students. The catch? Ads are inserted within the text.
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The NCAA recently passing new rules to crack down on diploma mills, but a loop hole exists if a student has a learning disability.
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What are the career aspirations of the nationâs most accomplished and ambitious students these days? I havenât seen a formal survey, but a rapidly growing percentage of the best students I teach say they want to manage hedge funds or private equity firms.
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Many college students see the latest flirtation with a military draft more as political game-playing than a serious threat.