Education
Fareed Zakaria: Is America Losing the Knowledge Wars?
TIME’s editor at large, Fareed Zakaria, addresses the TIME Summit on Higher Education in New York City on September 19th, 2013. You can find more from the summit here.
Condoleezza Rice: Don’t Give Up On the Humanities
In the opening panel for the TIME Higher Education Summit, in New York City on September 19, 2013, Condoleezza Rice sounded off on the importance of humanities in an increasingly tech-focused academic climate. Check out her …
Back to the Future: How College Classrooms Can Compete With MOOCs
Fareed Zakaria, TIME’s editor at large, opened the TIME Summit on Higher Education on Thursday evening in New York City by reminding his audience that “eight of our top 10 universities in the world are American.”
Yet, …
LIVE STREAM: TIME Summit on Higher Education
Leaders in education, government, philanthropy and business gather to discuss the future of the American university. Watch it here live: Sept. 19, 7-9pm and Sept. 20, 8am-4:30pm. See the detailed live stream schedule and …
Harvard ‘Cheating’ Prof Knocked Off Tenure Track
The assistant professor who taught the class at the center of Harvard’s biggest cheating scandal has been kicked off the tenure track, the Harvard Crimson reports.
High-Profile MOOC Prof Dumps Coursera
Princeton professor says MOOCs are an excuse to cut funding to state universities
Glendale School District Hires Firm to Monitor Students’ Social Media Use
A California school district is paying an outside firm to monitor the social media postings of 14,000 middle and high school students for a year.
All Hail MOOCs! Just Don’t Ask if They Actually Work
Despite booming enrollment and enthusiastic administrators, scant research offers little evidence that online courses are effective
New Study Will Stir Controversy in Teacher Wars
A major survey looks at the impact of elite programs Teach for America and Teaching Fellows.
Princeton Tops List of U.S. Schools, Again
Princeton beat out Harvard as the best university in the United States, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2014 rankings released Tuesday.
The Hottest Seats in Class
Check out the leading campus celebrities who are filling real and virtual classrooms this year
Even In Birthplace of Charter Schools, the Grand Experiment Is At Risk
Two decades after the first charter school law passed in Minnesota, the movement is still struggling to reconcile innovation with accountability