Phillips Academy doesn’t offer the AP program. Andover was a founding AP school in the 1950s. School administrators say that teaching to the AP isn’t the best way of teaching. Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, that is often pegged as the best high school in America, doesn’t believe in the Advanced Placement […]
Phillips Academy receives 3,000 applications each year but only accepts about 13%. The admissions committee looks for characteristics of optimism, social agility, perseverance, and resilience in applicants. The school calls an applicant with top scores from the admissions team an “admit six.” It’s not easy to gain acceptance to Phillips Academy, the Andover, Massachusetts boarding […]
A library can be a second home for a bibliophile. They come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of embellishment. The nearly 300-year-old State Hall in Vienna, Austria, boasts carved wooden galleries, baroque-style statues, and frescos, while Taipei’s Beitou Branch resembles a treehouse more than a shelter for books. We scoured the internet and found […]
The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by three tenured Dartmouth professors. The professors conducted a 2012 study about sex and the brain with 58 female freshmen. Details of the alleged misconduct have not been released. Three tenured Dartmouth College professors, whose research included studies about sex and attractiveness, have been […]
The New Hampshire attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by three Dartmouth professors. The professors are Todd Heatherton, Bill Kelley, and Paul Whalen. All three work in the department of psychological and brain sciences. Three Dartmouth College professors have been placed on leave as a criminal investigation into alleged sexual […]
Phillips Academy, a prestigious boarding school located in Andover, Massachusetts, is the best high school in America. It’s founding dates back to the American Revolution — where its roster of early supporters reads like a “who’s who” of American exceptionalism. George Washington, Paul Revere, and John Hancock all have ties to Andover, which the school […]
We visited Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts to see what makes it the best high school in America. The school is often confused with Phillips Exeter. There are 1,154 students on Andover’s campus. Tuition for students living on campus is $53,900. Tuition for day students is $41,900. Andover has a “need-blind” admissions policy which means […]
College of the Ozarks, a Christian liberal-arts college located in Missouri, has a $416 million endowment. But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it’s often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four-year degrees to students tuition free. The roughly 1,500 person school made news recently for […]
College of the Ozarks is a private college that requires students to take a class on respect for the American flag. The school’s “no pledge, no play” policy states its sports teams won’t compete against schools whose athletes kneel during the anthem. The school is tuition-free for all four years. College of the Ozarks, a […]
Job hiring will increase 19% in 2018, helping recent college grads find employment. The information services industry will see the biggest increase in hiring. The results come from the largest annual survey of employers in the US. College seniors looking ahead to their job prospects after graduation should rejoice hiring figures coming out of a […]
Control a robot with your mind. Bring unresponsive limbs to life. Engineer tasty, nutrient-rich food tailored to an individual’s biometrics. These are just a few of the robotics projects that Columbia University PhD students are working on in their cramped, underground labs. Business Insider got inside for a rare tour of the spaces, and saw […]
Cornell University freshman Emery Bergmann made a video about the loneliness she’s experienced since she got to school. The video had nearly 90,000 views as of Tuesday morning. She says that making friends is harder than she accepted. Freshmen at colleges across America have settled into their first few months of classes, and the expectation […]
Interviews with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and other tech elites consistently reveal that Silicon Valley parents are strict about technology use. A new book suggests the signs may have been clear years ago that smartphone use should be regulated. There may be a way to integrate tech into the classroom, however, that avoids its harmful […]
White middle school students on a Virginia football team took a video simulating sex acts on black team members. The video was captioned, “What really goes on in the football locker room.” Some experts see this type of behavior online becoming more prevalent. A Snapchat video of middle school students simulating the rape of black […]
Higher education doesn’t come cheap in the United States — citizens collectively hold about $1.31 trillion in college loan debt. Things are hardly this dire in certain other countries, where everything from preschool to university is paid for — at least in part — by the government. Some governments even cover the entire cost of […]
Bill Gates announced that he would invest more than $1.7 billion in public education. Mark Zuckerberg invested $100 million into Newark Public Schools in 2010 and it was largely seen as a failure. Gates wants schools and educators to drive the process. Bill Gates will fund a massive investment in education, pledging more than $1.7 […]
In September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA provides temporary protection from deportation to individuals brought to the US as children. Hundreds of colleges and universities — including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford — wrote a letter to the US Senate and House of Representatives to […]
White nationalist Richard Spencer spoke at UF and protesters attended the speech. Uplifting messages were written on confetti and spread around the street. Many people chose to come together and denounce hatred. Florida governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in advance of a speech at the University of Florida by noted white nationalist […]
The University of Florida expects to spend $500,000 on security for a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Spencer, a far-right figure, attended the Charlottesville protests, and pledged to speak at other colleges. There will be more police on the UF campus than in any other time in the school’s history. The University of Florida […]
The English private school that educated princes William and Harry found a home in New York City this year. Wetherby-Pembridge School, located on 96th street and the section of 5th Avenue deemed “Museum Mile,” opened a branch of the school in New York and currently enrolls children in nursery, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classes. We visited […]
A 2014 report detailing the extent of the scandal involving fake classes at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill includes a slide from a presentation made to the school’s football coaches defending and encouraging the “paper classes” — in which all students had to do to pass was write one paper. The NCAA announced […]
For years, UNC Chapel Hill student-athletes and non-student-athletes alike used “paper classes” — courses that never met and required only one final paper — to boost their grades. The NCAA announced on Friday that it “could not conclude” that UNC violated academic rules after a years-long investigation into the academic scandal, saying the university will […]
Steve “Woz” Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Computer and inventor of the Apple II computer, announced on Friday the launch of his latest startup, Woz U. The venture is a “digital institute” meant to help people gain skills in computer science to fill gaps in high-paying technology roles. Wozniak, beloved for his affability, said Woz U […]
The February hazing death of Penn State sophomore Tim Piazza shocked and horrified the school’s community. Immediately, the fraternity that hazed Piazza, Beta Theta Pi, was shut down. Soon after, Penn State issued sweeping changes to Greek life on campus. Yet the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC), which represents Beta and 68 other of the largest […]
For all the pressure on college students to pick a lucrative major, not everyone goes where the jobs are. According to career site Zippia, which used US Census data to estimate the unemployment rate for people 22 to 25 years old in various fields, there are several areas of study that make job-finding harder. Many […]
While college Greek life is most often associated with frat parties, formals, and kegs, professionally your Greek affiliation could be hugely beneficial. Fraternities and sororities have vast networks that come in handy. With that in mind, Business Insider put together a list of some of the most powerful people who rushed Greek organizations in college. […]
Sal Khan is probably best known for launching Khan Academy, the free online learning platform that covers everything from art to history to computer programming. But Khan is also leading the charge on another learning revolution: flexible learning spaces. Originally founded as an all-ages school in 2014 in Mountain View, California, Khan debuted for the […]
A fraternity at Penn State has been suspended after police found a student unconscious near a parking close to the fraternity’s house, CBS reported. The student had allegedly been drinking at the Delta Tau Delta house and the fraternity is on an interim suspension while the university conducts an investigation. “The potential involvement of Delta […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is allegedly engaged in an ongoing investigation into Harvard University’s admissions practices, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday. The investigation appears to have been confirmed after a government watchdog group and a civil-rights organization submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about a possible investigation into admissions practices at Harvard University […]
College tuition in the US is more than anywhere else in the world. With that in mind, Forbes ranked the most expensive colleges it deems worth every penny. Forbes started with its list of America’s Best Value Colleges — which looked to indicators like post-graduation earnings and on-time graduation rate — and then filtered the […]
The University of Southern California locked down on Monday after reports of an active shooter on campus, The Washington Post reported. The one-hour campus-wide lock down occurred after an adjunct professor told her class there was a shooter. Police arrived at the Los Angeles, California school but found no threat or crime of any kind. […]
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as the FAFSA, opened October 1. To qualify for federal loans and Pell grants, applicants must complete the FAFSA. But year after year, students and families leave billions of dollars in award money on the table. Many families may not realize that some financial aid is […]
Daybreaker, a company whose early-morning dance parties draws startup workers in London, Paris, New York, and Tokyo, is bringing the sunrise soirée to college campuses across the US. Founded in 2013, Daybreaker throws three-hour raves complete with electronic dance music, free juice and snacks, and yoga — all before most people have their morning cup […]
When hazing scandals occur on college campuses, there typically seems to be a collective public reckoning over how fraternities have sunk so low. But in reality, hazing is not a recent phenomenon. That topic is explored in John Hechinger’s newly released “True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities,” which explains fraternity hazing has roots […]
After racial slurs were found on dormitory message boards belonging to five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School this week, the academy’s superintendent offered a harsh rebuke of racism, misogyny, and other forms of bigotry. “If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. If […]
Children only spend half their waking hours in school during the academic year. This means that much of the rearing is still done at home. In fact, research from North Carolina State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of California, Irvine finds that parental involvement is a more significant factor in a child’s academic […]
Automation is swiftly transforming the workplace and has been called the greatest threat to human jobs and the economy. To protect against massive disruption to the workforce, some experts suggest companies get involved. “Its no longer adequate to study one thing and not learn anything else your entire career,” Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson […]
After 16 years as head coach of the University of Louisville’s men’s basketball program, Rick Pitino’s tenure has come to an end. He was placed on leave amid a bribery scandal involving 10 coaches and associates with ties to multiple major programs. Pitino brought a national championship and three Final Four appearances to the Cardinals, […]
As the Cold War was heating up, Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, came into existence. The tiny college welcomed its first incoming freshman class in 1957, in a world where atomic weapons were reality. This fact drives the school’s culture, Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe told Business Insider. Founding president Joe Platt’s vision of […]
In the past few weeks, almost four million children started kindergarten. While kindergarten is compulsory in only 15 states, almost 75% of all 5-year-olds in the US attend it. I recently shared some of my research on how kindergarten has changed — namely, with more academics and less play. It generated a lot of interest, […]
Ten Confederate flags with cotton attached to them were found posted around American University’s Washington, DC campus Tuesday evening, according to a statement from the school. The posters coincided with a speech introducing the school’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. “We are well aware this act occurred the same evening Dr. Ibram Kendi presented ‘A […]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday accused American college campuses of being echo chambers of “political correctness and homogeneous thought” and undermining free speech rights, at the same time defending President Donald Trump’s vociferous criticisms of NFL players’ protests over the weekend. “Freedom of thought and speech on the American campus are under attack,” Sessions […]
Brown University has launched a campaign to raise $120 million to replace student loans with grants that don’t need to be repaid, The Hill reported. The initiative aims to take the financial burden of repayment off of aid recipients. The policy should substantially reduce the average debt burden of its graduates. Princeton University already has […]
Niles North High School in the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Skokie suspended its entire varsity football season until further notice due to a “possible hazing incident,” The Chicago Tribune reported. Niles North High School posted an official statement on its website about the alleged hazing. “North High School has been made aware of allegations of […]
American colleges have a higher price tag than ever. But steep costs alone don’t equal high quality. To make the most of your investment, you want to find a college that offers an excellent education for the lowest price possible. U.S. News & World Report recently released its best-value colleges list for 2018, ranking the […]