Scott Dalton for The New York Times
Julianne Carlson, a graduate of Yale, taught a prekindergarten class in Spanish last week at an elementary school in Houston.
Teach for America has become an elite brand that will help build a résumé, and in a bad economy, it’s a two-year job guarantee with a good paycheck.
10 Queens Pupils Got Second Chance at State Test
By TRIP GABRIEL
The principal of P.S. 86 defended her order to let 10 fifth graders answer social studies questions they had omitted a week earlier.
SMARTER THAN YOU THINK
Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
By BENEDICT CAREY and JOHN MARKOFF
Computer scientists are developing machines that can teach people simple skills, like household tasks and vocabulary.
Timeline: Building Smarter Machines
DIGITAL DOMAIN
Computers at Home: Educational Hope vs. Teenage Reality
By RANDALL STROSS
Researchers measuring a home computer’s educational value to a schoolchild in a low-income household are finding that test scores tend to go down, not up.
Share of College Spending for Recreation Is Rising
By SAM DILLON
A new study documents a growing stratification of wealth across America’s system of higher education.