Education News from NY Times

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This word has appeared in 209 New York Times article in the past year.    

Two Massachusetts community colleges are trying a modified approach to an open online computer science course, but at different paces.    

State financing for preschool programs fell close to 10 percent in the 2011-12 school year, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.    

New Community College in Manhattan will be renamed for Stella and Charles Guttman, whose foundation is giving CUNY an additional $10 million.    

Fill in the blanks in the first six paragraphs of the article “Anarchy in the Met” by Jon Caramanica.    

Will Walker, who was accepted to Williams College under a binding early decision application, felt like he “made a mistake” just before a recent campus visit.    

What are your favorite things? Have they always been your favorites?    

Every Monday we publish a New York Times photo without a caption, headline or other information about its origins. Join the conversation by posting about what you see, and why.    

Rather than recommend majors of the future, here are four activities to help develop the skills necessary to succeed in the work force of tomorrow. If you focus on these activities, the majors won’t matter as much.    

Who challenged a tradition in how proms had been conducted in a rural Georgia county?    

Can you calculate a specific measurement of a boxing ring?    

See what you know about the news of the day.    

This word has appeared in 111 New York Times article in the past year.    

An inaugural class of about 40 female inmates at an alternative high school at Rikers participated in Tribeca Teaches, a program that instructs young people in schools how to make movies.    

With $3.25 million from two foundations, the Norman Lear Center will create a “global hub” for people who want to measure the actual impact of media.    

International schools are increasingly relying on more sophisticated technology and large-scale job fairs to make choices about hiring.    

State senators passed a bill to change how school districts and courts handle truancy, which some say are unfair and overly punitive.    

Some may see a proposal by Texas legislators to change the requirements for a high school diploma as a “dumbing down.”    

The Bronx district attorney’s office said Friday it could not pursue any cases of alleged sexual abuse at the Horace Mann School because the statute of limitations had been exceeded.