Here's a situation a lot of us have experienced: You take a class that gives you headaches. After a lot of soul searching, you start to wonder if the problem is not you and not the material, but the instructor. Well, the problem might well have been a poor hiring choice on the part of school administrators. This short article from the Chronicle ...

It takes the average college student at a public university about 11 years to break even after paying for school and missing about four years worth of earning power. For those attending more pricey private schools, the breakeven point comes after about 18 years. This statistic comes from the College Board responding to criticism from Charles ...

Readers of my editorials may recall one piece wherein I mentioned the story of a 1980s presidential candidate who reportedly had to ask his press entourage how to calculate the decimal equivalent of 3/7, to help his son with a home work problem. With that tale in mind, perhaps the recommendations of a presidential panel on math education should ...

Not only that, they will not figure in the value of your home when calculating net worth. An item from the Chronicle of Higher Education on this development is interesting for the commentary it got from posters reacting to the ...

Here is another interesting item from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Sixty professors at the University of Washington have signed an open letter to the Legislature complaining that college freshmen  are “confounded by simple algebra. Interestingly, nobody from the school's college of education would sign the ...

The headline from the news blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education screams that a third of public school students need remediation at college. Read the item, though, and it is clear that the there is less to the headline than meets the eye, and the news may be less alarming than it first appears. First, they are only referring to public school ...

The Mineralogical Society of America has a rockin Web site for students. There you can learn about mineral groups, their properties, and crystal structures. If you have a rocky question, there's an ''Ask a minerologist'' tab who'll give you the anwer and don't forget to checkout the games tab too. Visit them here.