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Researcher, U of I foundation headed to trial

A University of Iowa researcher will square off against the nonprofit group that manages the school's intellectual property in a high-stakes trial starting Tuesday over whether he was unfairly denied the chance to make millions off potential treatments he

Student video: How high-stakes tests affect kids

There is one voice rarely heard in the screaming debate about the role of high-stakes tests in education: that of students. Here’s a student-produced video that tells how students are affected by having to take the FCAT, Florida’s standardized testing system.

U-turn on plagiarism cases raises questions

An investigation into the recent unanimous decision of the Karachi University syndicate to withdraw cases of plagiarism against three senior teachers shows that the decision was taken not only in disregard of past resolutions of the syndicate but also of the results of multiple inquiries conducted by the university over four years.