EDUCATION

College is expensive, but these institutions balance quality education with bargain prices.

Now is the time to finally learn Chinese or take up programming.

Roughly half the world's spoken languages are in danger of disappearing for good.

New research confirms that people who grow up with books at home tend to have higher reading comprehension and better mathematical and digital communication skills.

Even seasoned professors may have trouble spotting this trick.

One of life's minor inconveniences has been solved by technology.

Yes, STEM majors make more. But the most valuable field of study isn't medicine or engineering.

America ranks sixth globally in terms of teacher salaries.

The public service announcements were originally meant to boost teacher recruitment—and NBC wasn't all that crazy about airing them.

What would Confucius say?

Spoiler: None of the Ivies made the cut.

You may know how to spell “victory,” but here are 25 things you might not know about the country’s best-known gathering of logophiles.