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Nearly Half of Harvard Government Class Is Suspected of Cheating

A massive student plagiarism scandal rocks Harvard. Is there an epidemic of cheating in our colleges?

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Harvard and MIT Team Up to Educate a Billion People Online

The new online learning platform edX will bring a Harvard and MIT education to the planet.

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From Terminator to Pollinator: Bees Go Robotic

Harvard researchers are designing a swarm of mini-robots that will fly, think, and communicate autonomously.

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Harvard Looks Beyond Lectures to Keep Students Engaged

If the school's new effort is a success, the days of bored students checking Facebook during lectures could be over.

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Learning by Doing: Harvard Reinvents the MBA

Forget about class lectures and theoretical case study analysis. The new MBA is a hands-on degree.

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Did a Harvard Economics Class Cause the Financial Crisis?

Some students say a prominent professor's bias drove the creation of policies that foster economic inequality.

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If Professors Stop Lecturing, Will Students Stop Checking Facebook?

Harvard students say they use Facebook in class because the lectures are boring.

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The H-Bomb: Why We Should Care that Elizabeth Warren Works at Harvard

Most Americans go to public university, if they go to college at all. Yet so many of our role models were educated by a handful of elite schools.

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Will a Harvard Professor's New Technology Make College Lectures a Thing of the Past?

Thanks to Learning Catalytics, the "flipped classroom" and peer learning could revolutionize higher education.

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Are Schools on the Verge of a Mobile-Phone Revolution?

Over 75 percent of teens own cell phones, making them the perfect tool for learning—if teachers are on board with using them.

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Can Harvard's New Innovation Lab Crank Out Entrepreneurs?

The lab of fresh ideas and collaboration is set to open this fall.

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Harvard's Chief Information Officer Is Preparing for the Next Zuckerberg

She's "absolutely convinced" the next tech tycoon is on campus right now, and wants to make sure the school provides support.

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A World Without English Majors? Why Colleges Should Tell Students About Job Prospects Before They Commit

The U.K. wants to require schools to disclose employment data by college major.

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Is America's Favorite Vegetable Making You Fat?

A new study looks at how meat and potatoes affect your waistline in the long run.

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Brain Drain: How Our Thirst for Academic Talent Hurts the Rest of the World

While a top international scholar is teaching in the States, who's educating college students back in that professor's homeland?

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A College Degree in Three Years? Why America Needs to Get on Board

Three-year degree programs save money and help students get on with their lives, but American students aren't signing up. They should be.