Schools await Princeton donor ruling
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Colleges around the country are closely watching for a key ruling in a bitter legal battle between Princeton University and a disgruntled alumnus who claims the school misspent the millions his family left the school in 1961.
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A clash at a charter school in New York has exposed fault lines of wealth and class that are perhaps inevitable as philanthropists increasingly invest in public education.
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Christiana Lackner scored 12 points to spark Harvard to a 66-51 win over Princeton last night at Jadwin Gym, clinching at least a share of the Ivy League title for the Crimson.
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Eight high school students who gave their senior class trip money to a teacher with cancer will be able to travel after all, thanks to donations from people who were touched by the students' generosity.
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By Phil Galewitz, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Dec. 15--Palm Beach County's economic development leaders have been  recruiting Yale University's School of Medicine since October and hosted the  Ivy League institution for a three-day visit that month.
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Harvard, one of three undefeated 1-AA football teams in the country, and Princeton, whose only loss was to 18th-ranked Colgate by 3 points, meet in a pivotal Ivy League game Saturday. Harvard and Princeton are 2-0 and tied for first with defending league champion Penn, which plays at Yale.
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Princeton has now followed Harvard in instituting one deadline for all students. But, as the example of one big school shows, that doesn't guarantee more lower-income students
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Public schools cannot use race to decide where students attend classes, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a significant civil rights decision that may affect millions of students nationwide.
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The school attended by university applicants remains key to deciding whether they get a place, a study finds.
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By Pete Bosak, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun.
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The Supreme Court is diving into a debate over school diversity that is as old as Reconstruction-era efforts to integrate blacks into the mainstream and as new as the 5:35 a.m. start time on some buses carrying students across town in Louisville, Ky.
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By Aman Batheja, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 8--AUSTIN -- Framing the issue as the latest front in the civil rights movement, thousands of parents, educators, and students descended on the state Capitol on Wednesday to support school vouchers.
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Schools are being given rules for how they use and store pupils' biometric information, such as fingerprints.
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A private school in Hawaii can favor Hawaiian natives for admission as a means of giving a helping hand to a downtrodden indigenous population, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Sometimes, it's the donor who lets the school down rather than the other way around. Schools have chipped donors' names off buildings after a conviction or a scandal. This summer, Roger Williams University in Rhode Island renamed its law school, dropping a donor's name after he made a racist comm...
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Independent schools will have to show they operate for the public benefit, under charity guidelines.
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On Monday, the court takes up cases from Seattle and Louisville on the role of race in school enrollment.