China’s one-child policy, perhaps the biggest attempt at social engineering in history, came to an end last year.

As Turnitin seeks a “realignment” of what it does, the company best known for its plagiarism detection software hopes it can warm more faculty members to the idea of using technology in writing instruction.

President Obama has increased college aid by over $50 billion since coming into office. And he's trying to do more.

Officials have denied claims a spelling error led to a 10-year-old Muslim boy, who wrote he lived in a "terrorist house", being spoken to by police.

So much for globalization. The consensus among 1,400 chief executives of the globe’s largest companies is that the world is growing more fragmented and unstable ...

As researchers get older the quality of their publications drops, a study has found, suggesting that more funding should be given to promising younger scientists.

Is a valid strategy to improve a college's retention rate to encourage students at risk of dropping out to do so in the first few weeks

The angry emails came in a flurry to the president's office at Wheaton College, a small, picturesque campus near Boston.

The solar system may host a ninth planet that is about 10 times bigger than Earth and orbiting far beyond Neptune

White-tailed deer, though cute and wide-eyed like Bambi, can wreak havoc on the land around them. And no one knows this better than Jack Ray.