Ultimate Frisbee Connects International, American Students On an April evening in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, members of the Carolina Flyers are playing a fast-paced practice game. The Flyers are a men's professional Ultimate frisbee team. Their opp...
US States Try to Increase Teacher Pay Leaders of U.S. states are pushing for pay increases and other rewards as schools across the country try to employ more teachers. Groups that follow teacher pay say that more than half of the states' governors ha...
Recreation Attracts Students, Adds to College Experience When GianMarco Douglas was thinking about which medical school to attend earlier this year, he had a number of things in mind. He wanted to go to a school that offered a good education, friendl...
The College Board is changing its new Advanced Placement (AP) African American studies course again. Over the winter, the AP made changes to the course that critics said were made because of political pressure. 美国大学委员会再次修订了新的...
Debate Brings Many Benefits to Students Nearly three hours after midnight, Tajaih Robinson and Iyana Trotman of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina finally heard the judges' decision. They had defeated the University of Michigan i...
Evidence-based Reading Methods Called for in US Schools There has long been a debate among experts about how best to teach children to read in the United States. The debate involves two methods for teaching words: learning words as a whole, or breaki...
US High Court to Reconsider Affirmative Action Policies at Colleges In 1961, President John F. Kennedy ordered businesses working for the U.S. government to treat workers and people applying for jobs without regard to their race, creed, color, or nat...
Brazils Strong Reaction to School Shootings Differs from US On April 5, a man killed four children in a Brazilian daycare center. In the weeks since, Brazilian officials have detained 300 adults and children nationwide. The detainees are accused of s...
Almost every area of higher education in the United States has fewer students registering for classes. But many trade programs are growing. Trade programs teach students skills for specific jobs, like electricians or car repair. For many students, sk...
Advisors Help Students Finish Community Colleges Ten years after suspending her studies, Briana Mathis, a 30-year-old mother of two children, is in her first year back at Wallace Community College. Support staff at the school in Dothan, Alabama, sugg...
Some Students Ask What Is the Point of Community College Recent research suggests that there has been a big drop in enrollment in community colleges. Two-year community colleges fill the gap between high schools and four-year colleges. Some students...
An elementary school shooting in the U.S. state of Tennessee recently left three 9-year-olds and three adults dead. Now, state legislatures across the country are moving forward with bills aiming to improve school safety. 美国田纳西州一所小学...
Small Florida College Worries about Government Involvement Willem Aspinall is a 19-year-old student at New College of Florida. He grew up near Chicago. He called his school, near the small city of Sarasota, a little bubble. The term bubble means a sa...
Afghan Girls Struggle with Internet for Online Classes There are a growing number of educational centers trying to reach Afghanistan's girls and women through online classes in their homes. Sofia is an Afghan student taking an online English course....
On-campus Violence Concerns Some International Students, Not Others Gun violence can happen anywhere in the United States. It can happen at a school for children, a holiday parade or a food store. It can also happen on college campuses. In February,...
