Missing too much school could hurt a student's test scores, no matter the school they go to, according to researchers who studied North Carolina school data.

The personal essay is an essential component of your application. How compelling it is — or isn't — can make or break your acceptance.

Write the name of a place (house, spot in nature, work, restaurant, etc.) at the top of your paper, and then do a stream-of-consciousness writing about that place and see what bubbles up. Pick a ...

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I commend Republican state Sen. Jim Abeler for admonishing President Donald Trump over his disparaging comments about Somali Minnesotans (“Republican state senator admonishes Trump for calling Somalis ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

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An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the "belief in multiple ...

The controversy surrounding a University of Oklahoma (OU) student who received a failing grade for citing the Bible in an essay has now shifted from a supposed free-speech violation to a meticulous ...