Education News from NY Times

Why did you like those books? Did anyone ever read them aloud to you?    

How many commas are missing from this paragraph?    

What are some of the legal, ethical and financial problems the United States faces in keeping the Guantánamo Bay detention center open indefinitely?    

See what you know about the news of the day.    

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

A military school in the Florida Panhandle is training technicians to thwart makeshift bombs like the ones used in the Boston Marathon attack.    

Members of the teachers’ union in Guerrero State showed their anger, and in some cases turned violent, over President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plan to overhaul the education system.    

In honor of the new film, we update an old post with new resources and teaching ideas. Do your students still relate to Gatsby and see the “flawed world” of America today in Fitzgerald’s portrait of the Jazz Age?    

Texas legislators are working to expand the free-breakfast program to all schoolchildren in poor areas, not just those from low-income households.    

A court ruling and continuing budgetary difficulties have left Portugal’s government to reduce spending where it can — including in its education system, already one of the weakest in Europe.    

Sunil Tripathi had been the subject of an incorrect rumor that he was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.    

With the National Candidate Reply Date arriving on May 1, a director of college counseling advises students to look beyond statistics and go with their guts.    

Do you think people under the age of 18 are mature enough to make life-or-death decisions on their own? Which of these things do you think constitute life-or-death decisions? Why?    

Where are some of the places this group has recited verse?    

Can you choose the correct verb to complete the sentence?    

See what you know about the news of the day.    

This word has appeared in 2,490 New York Times article in the past year.    

David H. Petraeus, the former C.I.A. director, has accepted a one-year position, starting in August, to teach public policy at Macaulay Honors College.    

A few outliers across the country and even New York State offer a college education for the one price that looks good in any economy: nothing.    

About 2,000 monkeys at the troubled New England Primate Research Center in Southborough, Mass., will be relocated to other laboratories.