Education

The Learning Network: How Often Do You Spend One-on-One Time With Your Closest Friends?

What happens when friendships grow distant because one or both people have trouble staying in touch? ...read more

The Learning Network: 6 Q’s About the News | Top Seeds Named in the N.C.A.A. College Basketball Tournament

What teams will appear in the N.C.A.A. Tournament 2015? ...read more

The Learning Network: Test Yourself | An Op-Ed on the College Admissions Process

Here are several paragraphs from a March 13 Op-Ed, “How to Survive the College Admissions Madness.” Can you choose the best word for each...

The Learning Network: Word of the Day | improvident

This word has appeared in five New York Times articles in the past year. ...read more

Test of new device that protects brain during heart-valve procedure

In the first multicenter trial of its kind, researchers tested a new device that lowers the risk of stroke and cognitive decline in patients...

Motherlode Blog: ‘I Miss My Daddy. Divorce Stinks.’

My ex-husband and I are over, and that's as it should be. But there's one person who's not buying that this divorce is “for...

Davidson Math Students Lend a Hand to Basketball Team

A math professor and his students presented a way to show the efficiency of every five-man lineup that No. 24 Davidson used in games...

Breaking Silence, Survivor Sets Out to Meet Holocaust Past

Tomi Reichental, who was sent to a concentration camp as a child, has mesmerized students in Ireland with his stories of wartime atrocities.

14 Students Are Accused in Los Angeles Sexual Assaults

Fourteen students at Venice High School are under investigation in a series of assaults involving two underage schoolmates that investigators believe started in December...

Barred Fraternity’s Lawyer Seeks to Alter Punishment

Video of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter at the University of Oklahoma has helped draw attention to racially tinged incidents on other campuses.