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In Nevada, poor eighth-grade math scores come with asterisk

Classmates who take high school-level math course while still in middle school aren’t included in state’s results, making a bad statistic look even worse.

U.S. News rankings spotlight Princeton, Williams, UCLA, NYU

Two schools have a lock on U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 ranking: Princeton University topped the national university list for the seventh straight year, and Williams College led the liberal arts list for the 15th straight year.

DeVos wants to right the pendulum on campus sexual assault — ANALYSIS

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos talked to lots of people – victims, students who said they were falsely accused and the family members of both — before she started to reform a policy instituted under President Barack Obama that instructs college campuses on how to deal with allegations of sexual assault.

 
Harvard admissions decision a wake up call for students on social media

Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world’s most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media.

Harvard admissions decision a wake up call for students on social media

Harvard University’s decision to rescind admission offers to 10 incoming freshmen because of offensive Facebook posts comes at a time of heightened attention to free speech and student conduct on U.S. college campuses, and has stirred debate far beyond the halls of the Ivy League school.

UNLV researchers find evidence of global thaw in Russian cave

A thaw is underway in Russia, and it has nothing to do with presidential politics. Inside a cave in Russia’s Ural Mountains, where Europe and Asia meet, a team of UNLV researchers has found evidence of steady warming since the end of the last ice age.