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- The end of amateurism? What’s behind calls to pay NCAA athletes.Many student athletes serve a key role as ambassadors for universities. But how the players benefit educationally or financially isn’t aways clear. A growing coalition is rethinking that relationship.
- America to elite colleges: Shape up (but please let us in).Analyzing what’s wrong with college admissions became a pastime for Americans this week. At the heart of the discussion is a desire for fair opportunities to get ahead.
- This city is short of teachers. It’s tapping immigrants to help.A path to certification for foreign-born teachers is intended to help diversify Portland’s teaching staff as well as reduce ‘brain waste.’
- We asked. You answered. Did a teacher change the way you saw yourself?We asked our readers to send in their stories of incredible teaching. And they delivered.
- Schools help teachers with a new kind of homework: finding a place to liveA year of teacher walkouts in the US has been forcing communities to face school underfunding and low pay. But some school districts are offering housing to attract and retain new teachers.
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- Go north, young grad. How Canada is winning over international students.Increasingly, students are looking at a country’s reputation as much as a college’s and asking, Where can I make a home? For many college students, Canada is being seen as the new land of opportunity.
- Charter schools swap ‘no excuses’ for a gentler approach to disciplineFor years many charter schools embraced toughness on infractions small or large. But a shift is under way toward the idea that it’s possible to combine high expectations with the nurturing so many students need.
- One state asks: What if Girl Scouts, martial arts counted toward a diploma?Lots of learning occurs outside the classroom – but doesn’t appear on transcripts. Our education reporter saw a chance to listen in on New Hampshire’s debate about the best way to balance individual choice with the collective public good.
- Points of ProgressWhen transfer students knock, more colleges are opening the doorMore community college students are making their way to four-year universities – and helping schools meet enrollment and diversity goals. What might that mean for college affordability?
- Can small liberal arts colleges survive the next decade?Hampshire College, the famously experimental liberal arts college in Amherst, Mass., is facing dire financial straits. Is the school a bellwether for the collapse of small colleges that rely on tuition?
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