| In high school, Melissa Edwards woke up at 6:30 a.m. to catch a bus. It was dark, she was tired and the school's 7:15 a.m. morning bell forced the St. Louis teen to eat lunch at 10:45.
Her brother was incredulous. "I thought that this couldn't possibly be good," said Finley Edwards, a Colby College economist, of his sister's predawn start. But when Edwards sought data on the topic, he couldn't find any. So he ran the numbers himself. BLOG POSTS  | Dean P. Simmer: One Hundred Percent
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The 317th Recruiting Squadron recently started a program to inspire innovation and creativity in science, technology, engineering, and math programs. They challenged students in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland schools with a simple question: Why are STEM careers important to our nation? |  | Martin J. Blank: All Hands on Deck for Community Schools
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As the wounds of college rejections are still raw from April's thin-or-thick envelope onslaught, all over America, the reality of plan B's are slowly starting to settle in. |  | Matt Bieber: What Is College For? An Interview With the New Yorker's Louis Menand
Louis Menand's book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University asks hard questions about whether higher education's historical goals and structures are well-suited for today's world. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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