2018-11-28 Rural US School Has Just One Student, One Teacher
A rural area in the western United States has a very unusual school. The school, in the state of Wyoming, has just one student and only one teacher. It is…
2018-11-25 Website Helps College Students Deal with Mental Health Issues
Mental health is no small issue at colleges or universities around the world, including the United States. The youngest students at U.S. colleges are just out of high school. Most…
2018-11-21 US Education Secretary Proposes New Rules on Sexual Misconduct
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has proposed new guidelines on a law that protects against sexual violence in schools. The plan, announced last week, would change earlier guidelines created during…
2018-11-20 Former New York Mayor Gives $1.8 Billion to Johns Hopkins University
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced he is donating $1.8 billion to his former school, Johns Hopkins University on Sunday. Bloomberg said he is doing so to increase…
2018-11-18 US College IT Services Face Serious Spending Limits, Study Finds
Information technology, or IT, has entered into almost every part of modern life, and higher education is no exception. Yet while many businesses and governments continue to invest in IT…
2018-10-30 Number of English Learners in US Schools Keeps Rising
The number of English language learners in American public schools continues to rise. About 9.5 percent of public school students were English language learners in 2015, the U.S. Department of…
2018-11-07 Yemeni Teacher Opens Home to 700 Students
A Yemeni teacher has given up a valuable part of his life to improve education in the face of continuing war. He turned his home into a school that now…
2018-11-11 US National Average Data Removed from ‘College Scorecard’
There are many things for students in the United States to consider when thinking about which college or university to attend. This includes the location of the school, whether it…
2018-11-04 US Universities Reconsider Ties with Saudi Arabia
Colleges and universities in the United States have received more than $350 million from the government of Saudi Arabia over the past 10 years. Yet some of these schools are…
2018-11-14 Number of International Students Coming to US Continues to Drop
The number of new international students attending American colleges and universities has dropped for the second straight year. Newly arriving foreign students fell about 7 percent in the 2017-2018 school…
2018-10-17 Harvard Accused of Discriminating Against Asian-Americans
A United States federal court in Boston, Massachusetts, is hearing a discrimination case against the oldest university in the country. The nonprofit organization Students for Fair Admissions first took legal…
2018-10-14 US Public Colleges Fail to Serve Black Students, Study Finds
The United States has a long history of systemic inequality in its treatment of minorities, especially African Americans. Now, a new study suggests that higher education is yet another part…
2018-10-21 Students Win Legal Action against US Education Department
Students defrauded by for-profit colleges won an important legal victory on Tuesday. A U.S. federal court ruled against a request to delay a policy from former President Barack Obama’s administration.…
2018-10-10 Study: Nearly 10 Percent of US Airbnb Hosts Are Teachers
People across the world use Airbnb to offer their homes to travelers usually for a nightly fee. The home-sharing service provides some people a way to make extra money while…
2018-10-24 Language Study: Babies Learn Better with Others
A new study has found that young babies learning languages through video materials do better with other babies around than they do alone. The study confirms earlier studies that found…