Two members of Congress formed an eLearning caucus last month--a much-needed Capitol Hill forum, educators said, after a recent survey showed Congressional representatives and their staffers lacked a…
American higher education—long the envy of the world—is facing unprecedented challenges…as the crisis continues to escalate, there is a conspicuous lack of leadership from the presidents and chancellors…
In our upcoming Sunday magazine, I profile Dennis Hong, director of the Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory at Virginia Tech and a leader in the movement to perfect the…
Just hours after stepping down, two high-ranking Penn State administrators face arraignment Monday on charges they lied to a grand jury investigating former defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky and…
First the dot.coms popped, then mortgages. Are student loans and higher education the next bubble, the latest investment craze inflating on borrowed money and misplaced faith it can…
Politicians and educators have been wringing their hands for years over test scores showing American students falling behind their counterparts in Slovenia and Singapore, the New York Times…
A new analysis of “unoriginal” writing by the anti-plagiarism site Turnitin finds that college students aren’t much better than high school students at choosing their sources, the Washington…