Tagged: Education

The education charter school debate is raging at the State House and Boston Mayor Tom Menino is weighing in.

Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, talks about the digital education revolution and his book, "The One World School House: Education Reimagined."

It's only been 10 years since Olin College first opened and it already ranks among the country's top engineering schools. But that's not its main goal. Olin wants to transform the way colleges teach engineering.

Do we need to redefine higher education? And should our new definition include more online learning? Kara Miller asks Andrew Delbanco, a professor of American Studies at Columbia and author of “College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be,” Daphne Koller, a professor at Stanford and co-founder of Coursera, and Prateek Tandon, an economist at the World Bank.

What's the future of higher education? There might be no one better to answer the question than Lawrence Bacow, the former president of Tufts, and Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern. 

The City of Boston is adopting a new school assignment policy that the school committee voted on late Wednesday night that aims to offer more students the option to attend schools closer to home.

When Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in Latin in February, he thrust the long dead language into the spotlight. In the United States, few Catholics still celebrate Mass in Latin, and we're far from the days of mandatory Latin in schools (you'd be hard pressed to find a person under the age of 20 who knows the Latin phrase "semper ubi sub ubi").

Linguist Ben Zimmer  joined Boston Public Radio to talk with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan about Latin's comeback.

Harvard University administrators have issued an explanation of their efforts to secretly search the emails of 16 deans to find the source of a leak to the media about a cheating scandal.

Science and religion have often seemed at odds with each other, but two biology professors at a local Christian college hope to change that. Craig Story and Justin Topp of Gordon College have received a $200,000 grant from the BioLogos Foundation to help pastors become more scientifically literate.