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10 Colleges Where You Won't Have To Walk On Eggshells

These schools are seriously committed to civil and diverse debate.

South Dakota Middle School Teaches Students With Video Games

When eighth-grader Alyssa Lingen started her information and communications technology class this year at Patrick Henry Middle School, the art student was repulsed by anything related to computer science, she said.

College Is A Racket!

A 27-year-old Harvard dropout has a surprisingly plausible fix for a norotiously unfair system

How The Reddest Of Red States Built A Preschool Program Second To None

How the reddest of red states built a preschool program second to none

Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong

You probably thinkyou know which states have the best and worst education systems in the country.

Indiana School Tries New Methods With Autistic Students

An Indiana polis high school that opened last year is attracting students with autism by taking a different approach to teaching.

Bill Gates Calls For More Global Education Assessments Data

Bill Gates is rallying behind school quality in developing nations with a push for more assessment data, a new initiative that links the Microsoft co-founders signature U.S. education priorities with his more prominent global philanthropy work.

The Rulers Of Foreign Lands

Was a new regional power, once thought of as a bloodthirsty invading force, actually a catalyst for ancient Egypt’s most prosperous era?

What To Do When Your Child's Homework Requires Internet Access

Many parents often wonder how to manage their child’s computer use and homework time.

8 Almost States

If some independence-minded citizens had gotten their way, we would have a few more stars on our flag

State Renews Law To Boost Biotechnology Sector

Gov. Charlie Baker has signed a bill that seeks to continue the state’s commitment to the life sciences industry over the next five years.

Univ. Of Alabama Students Can Use Id Card On Apple Watch

No more ID cards for University of Alabama students with an Apple Watch or iPhone.

Yes, You Can!

In an exclusive interview with Latina, Michelle Obama talks about the White House’s Reach Higher Education Initiative, her freshman year at Princeton, and the tools students need to succeed in school—and life.

Saddled With Student Loan Debt?

Lower your payments with an income-driven repayment plan.

The Debtors Strike Back

Activists want to turn billions in unpaid student loans into a catalyst for political action.

The Coddling of the American Mind

In the name of emotional well-being, college students are increasingly demanding protection from words and ideas they don't like, and seeking punishment of those who give even accidental offense. Here's why that's disastrous for education - and likely to worsen mental health on campus.

How The New Political Correctness Is Ruining Education

Todays college students can't seem to take a joke.

How empire ruptured rural Britain

We know that enslaved Africans and their descendants suffered in the distant colonies of empire. But, as Corinne Fowler explains, the colonial system also had dire impacts on people in the countryside of the 'motherland'

"I FELT VERY ALONE IN A WORLD GONE HORRIBLY MAD"

It was a moment of possibilities, dislocation and dread. Dan Todman tells the story of the 1.5 million urban Britons evacuated to the countryside at the start of the Second World War

Nothing matches being with Alexander the Great on foot in the Hindu Kush

AT OUR LITTLE FILM COMPANY, MAYA VISION, we recently took the decision to digitise all of the rushes of our key films so that we could dispose of hundreds of boxes of tapes that had been kept in storage, throwing out stuff we thought we would never need again.

Library of the dead

Highgate Cemetery, created as a fashionable resting place for wealthy Victorian dead, is a veritable who's who of London's great and good. PETER ROSS roams the avenues of this most atmospheric necropolis

Viking mussels

ELEANOR BARNETT digs into archaeological research to recreate a Viking-cum-AngloSaxon seafood dish from medieval York

Slavery, exploitation and racism. These tragedies have long dominated histories of Africa. But there's another way to tell this story. And it's one that puts Africans right at the centre of their continent's extraordinarily rich and vibrant past

An 1414, in the Chinese city of Nanjing, a giraffe caused a stir. Amid a crowd of shocked, noble spectators, an official, leading the creature via a rope tied round its face, presented it to China's Yongle emperor. His officials said it was a qilin - an auspicious unicorn - which his sage governance had made appear.

Gutenberg publishes a pioneering new book

‘The printing press triggers an information revolution

HENRY III AND THE MAGNA CARTA THAT MATTERED

King John's sealing of a charter at Runnymede in 1215 is one of the most feted moments of the Middle Ages. Yet, writes David Carpenter, it was the charter issued by his son 10 years later that became fundamental to England's history

England's forgotten hero

When the Hundred Years' War was reaching a climax, one man was fighting tenaciously to secure the English claim to the French crown. So why, asks Joanna Arman, is Henry V's formidable brother, John, Duke of Bedford, not better known?

Fingers, frog's and fairies

Fortune telling was all the rage in the 16th and 17th centuries, and practitioners would stop at nothing to tap in to the supernatural. Martha McGill tells a story of Highland seers, tarot cards and encounters with the spirit world

The Elusive Pimpernel

Some suffragettes marched with banners, or printed and distributed propaganda pamphlets. Others took more direct action. DIANE ATKINSON tells the story of one activist who employed arson to spark awareness of the burning issue of women’s suffrage

A modern icon

IVWWAN MORGAN lauds an insightful and clear-eyed examination of a leader blessed with charisma and quality but also marred by personal flaws

WHO WAS GREATEST THE US PRESIDENT?

With Donald Trump set to be inaugurated as the 47th president, we asked seven historians to nominate their choice for the most accomplished American leader