education

Worksheets drill compliance, gamified apps reward clicking — neither builds reasoning. How adaptive Socratic AI tutors could change the equation.

September 16, 2026 · 5 min read

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,

March 8, 2026 · 3 min read

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

July 20, 2020 · 2 min read

Pew's 2015 Religious Landscape Study found America's Hindu population reached 2.23 million — making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, tied with Buddhism.

May 13, 2015 · 4 min read

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.

May 11, 2015 · 3 min read

Texas A&M Galveston professor Irwin Horwitz failed his entire Strategic Management class — then the university overruled him.

April 28, 2015 · 1 min read

Suchitra Sharma meets Kumari Shibulal, whose Sarojini Damodaran Foundation funds full scholarships for underprivileged students across India.

April 20, 2015 · 3 min read

Ayush Sharma, 17 — a mechanic's son and Kendriya Vidyalaya topper from Kanpur — won admission to MIT with a scholarship worth nearly a crore.

April 14, 2015 · 1 min read

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.

March 13, 2015 · 1 min read

After Class XII student Kamalika Das died by suicide in Salt Lake, Kolkata, her father wrote to HRD Minister Smriti Irani alleging teacher harassment.

February 4, 2015 · 1 min read

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.

October 21, 2014 · 1 min read

Gifted children think differently — and that comes with emotional challenges: sensitivity, teasing, perfectionism, existential worry.

September 24, 2014 · 2 min read

In 2014, 18-year-old Ravi Jagadeesan of Naperville won a $50,000 Davidson Fellow Laureate award for original mathematics research on Galois invariants.

September 16, 2014 · 1 min read

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.

September 11, 2014 · 1 min read

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.

September 8, 2014 · 1 min read

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

September 6, 2014 · 1 min read

Folorunsho Alakija, worth $2.6 billion in 2014, told University of Lagos students she never attended one. The fashion-to-oil story behind it.

September 5, 2014 · 1 min read

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?

August 29, 2014 · 1 min read

Flip teaching reverses the classroom: students watch lesson videos at home and do homework in class. Early results — like Clintondale's — were striking.

October 9, 2013 · 2 min read

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.

April 12, 2013 · 1 min read

Veteran teacher Gerald Conti's resignation letter: 27 years at Westhill High, and a farewell to a profession he says ‘no longer exists’.

April 10, 2013 · 5 min read

No standardized tests, no private schools, teachers treated like doctors: what Pasi Sahlberg says the world keeps missing about Finland's schools.

March 15, 2013 · 2 min read

Dale Stephens, founder of UnCollege, argues that with the average graduate carrying $27,000 in debt, college is a gamble worth rethinking.

March 5, 2013 · 2 min read

Fred Butler left school after eighth grade to support his family. At 106, Beverly, Massachusetts gave him his honorary high school diploma.

March 5, 2013 · 1 min read

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.

February 18, 2013 · 2 min read

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.

September 28, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

September 20, 2012 · 1 min read

Visually impaired Pratish Datta topped his M.Sc. Mathematics batch at IIT Kharagpur in 2012 and received the gold medal from President Pranab Mukherjee.

September 16, 2012 · 1 min read

Gaithersburg Elementary scrapped worksheets in 2012 and assigned only 30 minutes of nightly reading — and test scores held up.

September 7, 2012 · 2 min read

In 2012, Singapore topped global health rankings and led the world in education — a case study in what sustained public investment can buy.

August 13, 2012 · 1 min read

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?

June 12, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

June 9, 2012 · 3 min read

About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned after drinking contaminated water at a school in Takhar on April 17, 2012 — officials blamed opponents of female

April 17, 2012 · 3 min read

Irrfan Khan, Sonali Bendre, and Rishi Kapoor spoke openly about cancer — and changed how India talks about illness. The cultural shift their honesty created.

March 10, 2012 · 1 min read

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.

October 3, 2011 · 1 min read

SAT reading and writing scores were falling in 2011. But for students taking the test, one question mattered more: what actually raises your score?

September 19, 2011 · 1 min read

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?

July 25, 2011 · 2 min read

Maitreyee Rajaput, Arti Jain and Charmy Sheth swept the top three CA final ranks in 2011 — and girls outscored boys on pass percentage too.

July 19, 2011 · 2 min read

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.

February 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Florida Virtual School, founded in 1997, became the country's largest online school by 2010. What its early experiment revealed about remote learning.

January 19, 2011 · 1 min read

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.

January 14, 2011 · 1 min read

On a Fulbright teaching exchange in the Adirondacks, English teacher Ajay Kumar Nair introduced American students to kabaddi — shoes off, rules on.

January 10, 2011 · 1 min read

In December 2010, Roslyn High School handed 47 iPads to students in two classes — an early test of whether tablets could replace textbooks.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

As British students protest the proposed tripling of tuition fees, Indian universities — Pune among them — are pitching themselves as the affordable

November 17, 2010 · 1 min read

Girls match boys in early math performance, then the STEM gap opens. The evidence says it is a social and structural phenomenon — not biology.

November 16, 2010 · 1 min read