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The University of Pennsylvania clinched at least a share of the Ivy League title, defeating Harvard 17-7 on Saturday.
Theodore Ryland Sizer, a passionate leader in education reform who led Ivy League education departments and progressive high schools, has died after a long battle with colon cancer. He was 77.
A former Yale University lab technician charged with strangling a graduate student and stuffing her body behind a laboratory wall appeared in court Tuesday but did not enter a plea to murder.
M.A. Olawale threw for two touchdowns and ran for another, leading Columbia in a 38-0 blowout of Princeton on Saturday in the Ivy League opener for both teams.
Lyle Marsh rushed for 130 yards and Penn defeated Dartmouth 30-24 in the Ivy League opener for both teams on Saturday.
A retired Yale University employee who had complained about his benefits showed up at the Ivy League school with a rifle, ammunition and a knife, but his attorney said he had no ill intent.
A longtime Ivy League professor preyed on vulnerable teenage boys at home and abroad as he pursued them for sexual encounters and pornographic videos, prosecutors argued at his sentencing Tuesday.
Reader's Digest interviewed educators across the country to get the scoop on what your child's teacher isn't telling you. These insider secrets will go a long way toward helping you and your child survive the school year.
Dartmouth College is the first Ivy League school to inaugurate an Asian-American president.
Even after police suspected lab technician Raymond Clark was the man who killed a Yale University graduate student and stuffed her body behind a wall, he had unfettered access to the Ivy League campus — but was under constant surveillance, officials confirmed Monday.
The total value of Harvard's endowment plunged nearly 30 percent in the last fiscal year as the Ivy League institution's portfolio was battered by the worldwide recession, the university's management company said.
The Yale graduate student presumed to have been killed in her lab building and stuffed into a wall there was probably not the victim of a random act, police said Monday as they sought to ease fears about student safety.
Police say a gun scare at Princeton University began when four teen boys found a toy gun on campus.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a surprise return to her alma mater on Monday, picking up an honorary degree from Yale University 36 years after earning her law degree from the Ivy League school.
A New York City songwriter pleaded not guilty Friday to murder charges in the shooting at a Harvard dormitory of a man prosecutors say was at the Ivy League school to sell drugs.
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan (KOH'-fee AN'-nan) has been named a Columbia University Global Fellow and is expected to give lectures, host conferences and moderate events at the Ivy League school.
An Ivy League school is giving China back its treasured mushrooms.
Brittany Smith scored 19 points and Dartmouth beat Harvard 64-51 Tuesday night to win the Ivy League title and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
K.J. Matsui scored 17 points, hitting five 3-pointers, and Columbia defeated Princeton 58-44 on Friday night, eliminating the Tigers from the Ivy League race.
Dartmouth students have apologized for writing a tongue-in-cheek news report full of racial slurs directed at the school's next president, who will be the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League school.
Ryan Wittman, Chris Wroblewski and Adam Gore each hit two 3-pointers early in the second half and first-place Cornell pulled away from Dartmouth, 75-57, Friday night in the Ivy League.
In a Feb. 10 story about a woman who stole an identity to attend an Ivy League school, The Associated Press reported erroneously that police were tipped to the scheme last June. Authorities became aware of Esther Reed's scam in 2006.
Lisa Henson got some satisfaction from facing the thief who used her missing niece's identity to scam her way into an Ivy League school.
With her Ivy League law degree, Michelle Obama is more like Hillary Clinton than Laura Bush. But the style she is forging as first lady falls somewhere in between both of her immediate predecessors.
Yale student died from traumatic asphyxiation, medical examiner says -- latimes.comThe "person of interest" has been released from police custody.
Pretentious Liberal Snobs :: Ashley Herzog Let's put aside the fact that David Letterman's jokes about Sarah Palin and her daughters were sexist, as NOW and other feminist groups have acknowledged.
Rove: Attending top schools doesn't mean that Sotomayor is smart, but it proves that Bush is.During a debate at Radio City Music Hall last night, former Bush adviser Karl Rove claimed that Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor was "not necessarily" "very smart." When host Charlie Rose noted in response that she attended Princeton and Yale Law School, Rove r …
Dartmouth College Names Jim Yong Kim as President Dr. Kim will become the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League school
Higher Education - State Universities Rival Ivy League?When it comes to higher education, it appears it might well be time for students to give greater consideration to public colleges and universities.
Is this the Republican Lament?: We Lost Because We SuckSo, we have this great big circular firing squad going about whether to purge moderates, or socons, or fiscons, or libertarians, or Methodists, whatever.
Parents Weekend at YaleI just saw my fifth Parents' Weekend. My parents stayed home, sensibly stopping at four. In their absence, I observed the holiday the way we used to — by doing an on-campus activity that would have never occurred to me otherwise.
5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy LeaguesLukasz Zbylut has taken "the old college try" to a whole new level. The New York teenager, who couldn't even speak English when he emigrated from Poland only five years ago, applied to seven Ivy League schools� and was accepted by all of them, along with 10 other top schools.
5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy LeaguesLukasz Zbylut has taken "the old college try" to a whole new level. The New York teenager, who couldn't even speak English when he emigrated from Poland only five years ago, applied to seven Ivy League schools� and was accepted by all of them, along with 10 other top schools.
The Disadvantages Of An Elite Education: How The Ivy League Prepares Its Students For A Life Of 'Entitled Mediocrity'It didn't dawn on me that there might be a few holes in my education until I was about 35. I'd just bought a house, the pipes needed fixing, and the plumber was standing in my kitchen.
5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy LeaguesLukasz Zbylut has taken "the old college try" to a whole new level. The New York teenager, who couldn't even speak English when he emigrated from Poland only five years ago, applied to seven Ivy League schools? and was accepted by all of them, along with 10 other top schools.
Right plays 'Kill the Witch' with Barack Obama's wife Republicans believe that they have found a key to defeating Barack Obama by contrasting his wife Michelle, potentially America's first black first lady, with Cindy, wife of John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee.
Black Colleges' Unlikely Pupils: WhitesFaced with increased competition from historically white schools, and in some cases legal requirements to diversify their student bodies, historically black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, are actively recruiting white, Hispanic and Asian students.
Ivy League Professor Threatens To Sue Students For "Anti-Intellectualism"Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world. The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her civil rights.
The Z-List is the New A-List: The Grubby Reality Of Harvard's Admissions Bias For The Children Of Its MegadonorsLike most private American universities, Harvard offers admissions preference to all alumni children, justifying the privilege for "legacies" on the grounds of preserving tradition and rewarding loyal graduates.
The Moment A Style Salute | William F. Buckley Jr. « - T Magazine - New York Times BlogThe look, both inside and out, of any ivy league man, its remarkable how someone so not involved with the fashion industry could influence it so heavily. He helped to make J. Press what it is today, and subsequently created need for brands such as Polo and J. Crew.
Harvard, Yale Quizzed About Endowment Spending, Costs (Update1) Harvard, Yale and 134 other schools were asked to provide information about their endowment spending to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, whose leaders say the funds should be used to make college more affordable.
In a New Era at Harvard, New Questions of StandardsBOSTON — Harvard has never won an Ivy League title in men's basketball and has not reached the N.C.A.A. tournament since 1946. This season, the team won only 8 of its first 27 games. Like all the universities in the Ivy League, Harvard does not award athletic scholarships.
In Oil-Rich Mideast, Shades of the Ivy LeagueEducation City, the largest enclave of American schools overseas, has become the elite of Qatari education.
Oil Money Cultivates a Mideast Ivy LeagueEducation City, the largest enclave of American universities overseas, has fast become the elite of Qatari education, a sort of local Ivy League.
As college costs keep rising, it pays to lobby for no-loan aid packagesWhen it comes to financial aid, Harvard and Yale can afford to be generous. more stories like this Tuition help Senate panel seeks endowment date from 136 colleges Stratification grows for elite colleges Harvard University's endowment tops $34 billion Applicants increase at …
Woman Arrested In Ivy League Identity TheftTinley Park, Ill. (AP) ― A woman accused of stealing other people's identities and duping some of the country's top universities, including Columbia, into admitting her has been arrested in suburban Chicago.
Big boost to college aid unlikely despite moves by Yale and HarvardNow that Harvard, Yale, and a handful of other top-ranked schools have made moves to make their undergraduate programs more affordable, will the rest of American colleges follow suit? Not likely.
Yale to Use More Endowment FundsYale University said it will increase the amount it spends annually from its endowment next school year by 37%, to $1.15 billion, to boost financial aid, expand scientific research and take on other initiatives.
Head of the ClassThe educational reformer talks about what's wrong with striving to be No. 1, the advent of the campus concierge and what makes colleges so expensive.
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