Since his name entered contention as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz mania has swept the Democratic Party. One CBS poll found that 60 percent of Democratic voters were enthusiastic about the pick, while another 35 percent were...
When “Zooey,” a Chinese international student at the Berklee College of Music, put up posters on campus reading, “WE WANT FREEDOM—WE WANT FOOD ON OUR TABLES… STAND WITH CHINESE PEOPLE,” a fellow student and Chinese national, Xiaolei Wu, t...
Why are you going to college? Ask a panel of 18-year-olds that question, and you’re likely to get a wide variety of responses. Some might cite earnings data and describe the returns to various degrees. Others may lean on the fond memories of their ...
This year, the Louisville Cardinals emerged as victors from the sixty-eight team field that comprised the NCAA men’s Division I basketball tournament, defeating the Michigan Wolverines in the final by a score of 82-76. However, the most striking mo...
This year, the Louisville Cardinals emerged as victors from the sixty-eight team field that comprised the NCAA men’s Division I basketball tournament, defeating the Michigan Wolverines in the final by a score of 82-76. However, the most striking mo...
Maybe you’ve heard this one: Suzy Weiss is a graduating high school senior who sported a .000 admissions batting average for her top college choices of Yale, Princeton and Penn. Rather than take the news gracefully, Suzy took to the streets—er, t...
Maybe you’ve heard this one: Suzy Weiss is a graduating high school senior who sported a .000 admissions batting average for her top college choices of Yale, Princeton and Penn. Rather than take the news gracefully, Suzy took to the streets—er, t...
To much fanfare, the University recently announced the creation of a new School of Public Health. Slated to open in July, the school will help improve Brown’s health courses and combine them into a single program. Public Health will become the thir...
To much fanfare, the University recently announced the creation of a new School of Public Health. Slated to open in July, the school will help improve Brown’s health courses and combine them into a single program. Public Health will become the thir...
According to an article published by Education Week just yesterday, Tucson Unified’s hugely popular and highly controversial Mexican-American studies program, eliminated just months ago by executive decision of newly appointed Arizona state superin...
According to an article published by Education Week just yesterday, Tucson Unified’s hugely popular and highly controversial Mexican-American studies program, eliminated just months ago by executive decision of newly appointed Arizona state superin...
Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic recession, some places have fared worse than others. And among the states that have struggled the most in the last few y...
Marked ballot. Image obtained from Wikimedia Commons. Although the country as a whole has been devastated by the current economic recession, some places have fared worse than others. And among the states that have struggled the most in the last few y...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled “Lena Rants About Something” Wednesday column to bring you important news—in a few hours, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments for Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case dealing with affirma...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled “Lena Rants About Something” Wednesday column to bring you important news—in a few hours, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments for Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, a case dealing with affirma...
The topics for the first presidential debate have been announced and education is not on the agenda. The economy dominates half of the planned topics, which is unsurprising. But the recently ended teachers strike in Chicago has put education back on ...
The topics for the first presidential debate have been announced and education is not on the agenda. The economy dominates half of the planned topics, which is unsurprising. But the recently ended teachers strike in Chicago has put education back on ...
The message from GED-prep organizations, states, and even the GED Testing Service is the same: take the test now. For those preparing for the GED, there are just a couple of years left before 2014, when a major redesign, including a shift to exclusiv...
The message from GED-prep organizations, states, and even the GED Testing Service is the same: take the test now. For those preparing for the GED, there are just a couple of years left before 2014, when a major redesign, including a shift to exclusiv...