Quality education is intricately tied to economic growth, with the two having a profound connection. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the weekly median pay for someone with a doctoral ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 113, No. 3 (November 2007), pp. 653-701 (49 pages) The authors draw on developmental psychopathology, life course sociology, and scholarship on educational ...

The education authorities in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, have decided to start local primary schools from 8:30 am instead of 8 am to ensure students get 10 hours of sleep. The decision ...

Educational gag orders are coming for higher education. These legislative restrictions on the freedom to read, learn and teach are now law in 13 states, including six that specifically restrict ...

The National Education Policy 2010 anticipated a comprehensive education law that would bring together existing laws and regulations under an umbrella to facilitate implementation of the policy. At ...

Two years ago, massive open online courses seemed to be everywhere. The wave of Internet-enabled disruption that had swept through the post office and the book store had now arrived at the quad, ...

Sarfaroz Niyozov works for the University of Toronto. He received funding from SSHRC in 2009. Wendy Hughes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization ...