education

Ivory-tower interest in the series has spawned journals, books, even a new school

The push to make grads more job-ready may be killing the liberal arts tradition. Goodbye, Western canon.

Teachers uncomfortable with math pass it on to female students: study

Dictionary pulled from school shelves for definition of “oral sex”

Not everything can be a priority. By definition.

Michael Ignatieff fills the university halls with big questions: ’Who’s not in the room? Who’s out in the cold?’

The actual “scientific” literature on learning styles is virtually nonexistent

A new study in the APS journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest [ PDF ] inquires into the scientific basis for one of...

Natives more likely to volunteer, learn informally

Meanwhile, in Ontario, it’s 1969 . So Ontario’s teachers and school boards think the curriculum is too demanding, too full of...