María de las Mercedes Calbi, a physics professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is one of 100 up and coming scientists who were honored by the White House on Thursday as winners of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for…

Dr. Samuel Stanley, vice chancellor for research at Washington University, has been named president of Stony Brook University in New York.

The Board of Trustees of the State University of New York voted unanimously today to appoint Stanley, also a molecular…

A new study by a University of Illinois professor found that minority students didn’t learn as much when separated by ability for reading instruction.

Christy Lleras, a professor of human and community development at Urbana-Champaign, says when students aren’t grouped by…

A few weeks ago, Andrew Coulson reviewed 25 years of research on education markets around the world for the Cato Institute, and concluded that “the private sector outperforms the public sector in the overwhelming majority of cases.” Furthermore, he said:

…that margin…