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Alabama updates remedial education stats

On the eve of an education summit in Mobile today, Alabama officials released data Monday indicating that the 32 percent of state college students who graduated from public schools last year needed to take at least one remedial class.

Writing Bad Code?

Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague?

Campus carry would cost Texas colleges millions

Allowing concealed handgun license holders to tote pistols on college campuses could cost tens of millions of dollars, a burden that could be ultimately passed on to students or siphoned away from education and research programs at Texas universities.

Is philosophy dead?

In 2010, Professor Hawking declared that scientists rather than philosophers “have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge”.