Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools names Timisha Barnes-Jones of West Charlotte High as 2018 principal of the year. Test scores, graduation rates have risen in the five years she has led the school.

The plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Harvard proposed ways that it could maintain diversity without considering race. Harvard says they won’t work.

For first time in six years, more graduating seniors took the SAT than the ACT.

Athletes are often held to a lower standard by admissions officers, and in the Ivy League, 65 percent of players are white.

The sticker price is just the start.

Wisconsin Whitewater is latest university to find a presidential spouse can become a campus liability. Even on campuses without controversies, partners face heightened scrutiny.

Unhappy with a new online-only book ordering system, professors at Middlebury College are calling for books to be put back on the shelves of their college bookstore.

The cost of a higher education is weighing ever more heavily on the minds of Americans. Selective flagship universities appear to be getting the message.