Michael Kamber for The New York Times
France is prodding schools like Sciences Po in Paris to set a goal of increasing the percentage of scholarship students to 30 percent.
Top French Schools Are Pushed to Open Meritocracy
By STEVEN ERLANGER
France is seeking to diversify the elite universities that have produced French leaders in every walk of life.
Chancellor’s Slip Benefits Tobacco Research
By DUFF WILSON
Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, gave $134,000 to the center after selling her shares in Altria.
Massachusetts: Psychiatrist Departs After Baby Einstein Controversy
By TAMAR LEWIN
Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint is leaving the Judge Baker Children’s Center in Boston and closing his Media Center, which for 16 years fought harmful media influences on children.
Funds for Race to the Top May Be Cut
By SAM DILLON
House Democrats have attached a provision to a war financing bill that would spend $10 billion to help school districts avoid teacher layoffs.
New Gifted Testing in New York May Begin at Age 3
By SHARON OTTERMAN
The current test is valid only for children 4 and older, but a new test could work for even younger children, allowing the city to speed up the admissions calendar.
At the New York Harbor School, Growing Oysters for Credit
By DAVID KAMP
On Governors Island, high school students form a relationship with the city’s marine environment.
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