A Crown Jewel of Education Struggles With Cuts

By TAMAR LEWIN

Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Budgets cuts have left a chemistry lab at the University of California, Berkeley, in need of repairs.

Students and faculty worry that deep budget cuts are pushing the University of California into decline.

Regents Raise College Tuition in California by 32 Percent

By TAMAR LEWIN and REBECCA CATHCART

Facing steep cuts in state financing, the university system voted on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees.

University Weighs Tighter Limits on Stem Cell Research

By MONICA DAVEY

The University of Nebraska would be the first such institution to set stricter limits than what national or state law allows.

Teachers at Some Low-Performing Schools Get Bonuses

By SHARON OTTERMAN

Two different measures of progress explain the discrepancy, said officials from the New York City Department of Education.

Gateses Give $290 Million for Education

By SAM DILLON

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a donation of $290 million to support groups working to transform how teachers are evaluated and how they get tenure.

Kathleen Martin, a first-grade teacher in San Jose, uses BoardMath to acquaint children with formal mathematical terminology.

Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap

By PHIL YOST

An underperforming school in San Jose sets high expectations, and students and parents respond with positive results.

The University of Minnesota's BAC program checks blood alcohol content to deter excessive drinking before home football games.

On College Football Game Days, Efforts to Deter Binge Drinking

By PAT BORZI

Students ejected from Minnesota home games for alcohol-related disturbances must meet with a counselor and submit to game-day breath analysis.

Academic Researchers’ Conflicts of Interest Go Unreported

By GARDINER HARRIS

A report found that universities often do not disclose faculty members’ conflicts of interest in government-financed studies.

California: University System Moves to Raise Fees

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The University of California system moved to raise student fees by $2,500 over two years as students demonstrated against the higher costs.

New Cases of Flu Drop on College Campuses

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

For the first time since fall began, new cases of flu among college students have started to drop, the American College Health Association reported.

Multimedia

Interactive Feature: Top of Their Class

Portraits of seven New York City high school valedictorians, with audio, photos and text from their graduation speeches.

Slide Show: Revisiting a Purge of Teachers

A lawsuit seeks to reopen documents on 1,150 New York City teachers who were investigated during the anti-Communist fervor of the 1950s. More than 370 were ousted from their jobs.

Interactive: College Cost Calculator

An interactive tool to estimate the future cost of higher education.

Interactive Map: New to English

Students learning English are among the nation’s fastest-growing group of students.

Education Life

The R.O.T.C. Dilemma

By MICHAEL WINERIP

The ban of the program at the elites is in its 40th year. Yet the students are hardly antimilitary. The opposite, in fact. Is it time to bring R.OT.C. back?