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The IITs admit 17,000 students a year while state universities educate 35 million. India's education story isn't about the top — it's about everyone else,
Indian Americans are among the highest-earning groups in the US. An essay on the journey from railroad workers and the 1917 immigration ban to today's
Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.
A Philadelphia dad took his kids to the Boston Marathon, got a warning letter from the school, and wrote back a reply that went viral worldwide.
Texas A&M Galveston professor Irwin Horwitz failed his entire Strategic Management class — then the university overruled him.
Suchitra Sharma meets Kumari Shibulal, whose Sarojini Damodaran Foundation funds full scholarships for underprivileged students across India.
Ayush Sharma, 17 — a mechanic's son and Kendriya Vidyalaya topper from Kanpur — won admission to MIT with a scholarship worth nearly a crore.
A bride in Rasoolabad, Uttar Pradesh, called off her wedding when the groom answered 15 + 6 as 17 — saying his family had hidden his poor education.
After Class XII student Kamalika Das died by suicide in Salt Lake, Kolkata, her father wrote to HRD Minister Smriti Irani alleging teacher harassment.
Babar Ali of Murshidabad began teaching children in his parents' backyard at nine — and at sixteen the BBC called him the world's youngest headmaster.
Gifted children think differently — and that comes with emotional challenges: sensitivity, teasing, perfectionism, existential worry.
In 2014, 18-year-old Ravi Jagadeesan of Naperville won a $50,000 Davidson Fellow Laureate award for original mathematics research on Galois invariants.
A 2014 Gallup study found that college graduates who had a mentor were twice as likely to be engaged at work and thriving in life — but only 22% ever had one.
A 2014 NYT report on the 'pretesting effect': students who flunked a quiz before studying did 10% better on the final. Why failing first helps you learn.
From the TI archives: a parent's 2014 shortlist of magazines, toys, science kits, and free learning sites to keep kids aged 5–12 curious — most of them
Folorunsho Alakija, worth $2.6 billion in 2014, told University of Lagos students she never attended one. The fashion-to-oil story behind it.
In 2014, the Modi government announced five new IITs. TI's 2014 debate: would new institutes expand opportunity — or dilute the quality the IIT brand rests on?
Flip teaching reverses the classroom: students watch lesson videos at home and do homework in class. Early results — like Clintondale's — were striking.
IIM Lucknow cut PGP fees 10%, from Rs 12 lakh to Rs 10.80 lakh — a first among IIMs, under director Devi Singh and chairman JJ Irani.
Veteran teacher Gerald Conti's resignation letter: 27 years at Westhill High, and a farewell to a profession he says ‘no longer exists’.
No standardized tests, no private schools, teachers treated like doctors: what Pasi Sahlberg says the world keeps missing about Finland's schools.
Dale Stephens, founder of UnCollege, argues that with the average graduate carrying $27,000 in debt, college is a gamble worth rethinking.
Fred Butler left school after eighth grade to support his family. At 106, Beverly, Massachusetts gave him his honorary high school diploma.
A 2013 SAMHSA report found that American teens who drop out before graduating are far more likely to smoke, drink, and use drugs than their in-school peers.
When the 2012 school-lunch rules capped calories and mandated fruits and vegetables, hungry high schoolers pushed back — with boycotts and a viral parody video.
A 2012 school debate in Tennessee asked a fair question: if homework is practice, why score it like a test? The case for and against grading homework.
Visually impaired Pratish Datta topped his M.Sc. Mathematics batch at IIT Kharagpur in 2012 and received the gold medal from President Pranab Mukherjee.
Gaithersburg Elementary scrapped worksheets in 2012 and assigned only 30 minutes of nightly reading — and test scores held up.
In 2012, Singapore topped global health rankings and led the world in education — a case study in what sustained public investment can buy.
IIT Delhi's plan for a new Sonipat campus reopened a national question: can the IITs scale up access without diluting the excellence that made them elite?
Dawn Loggins was homeless and working as her high school's janitor when Harvard admitted her to the class of 2016 — with a full ride.
About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female
Irrfan Khan, Sonali Bendre, and Rishi Kapoor spoke openly about cancer — and changed how India talks about illness. The cultural shift their honesty created.
In 2011, Ohio mother Kelley Williams-Bolar was convicted of felonies for enrolling her daughters in a better school district — one of several such cases.
SAT reading and writing scores were falling in 2011. But for students taking the test, one question mattered more: what actually raises your score?
Investor Jim Rogers moved his family to Singapore so his daughters would grow up fluent in Mandarin. Was it genius parenting — or a sign of the times?
Maitreyee Rajaput, Arti Jain and Charmy Sheth swept the top three CA final ranks in 2011 — and girls outscored boys on pass percentage too.
In 2011, IIT-Bombay bid for a New York campus under Bloomberg's Applied Sciences NYC plan -- the moment India's top engineering school went global.
Florida Virtual School, founded in 1997, became the country's largest online school by 2010. What its early experiment revealed about remote learning.
India's RTE Act had just banned corporal punishment in schools. Yet the old proverb refused to die. What the research — and the law — actually say.
On a Fulbright teaching exchange in the Adirondacks, English teacher Ajay Kumar Nair introduced American students to kabaddi — shoes off, rules on.
In December 2010, Roslyn High School handed 47 iPads to students in two classes — an early test of whether tablets could replace textbooks.
As British students protest the proposed tripling of tuition fees, Indian universities — Pune among them — are pitching themselves as the affordable
Girls match boys in early math performance, then the STEM gap opens. The evidence says it is a social and structural phenomenon — not biology.
