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To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.

Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.

The stimulus helped forestall drastic cuts at public schools, but many are now approaching what officials call a “funding cliff.”

Haven Academy in the South Bronx is the first school in the New York City designed for children from broken homes.

Haven Academy in the South Bronx is the first school in the New York City designed for children from broken homes.

When women outnumber men at a college, dating culture is skewed.

When women outnumber men at a college, dating culture is skewed.

An aggressive lobbying by large student lenders has imperiled a plan to end subsidies to private lenders.

The university also will freeze deans’ salaries and reduce the number of new graduate students because of a drop in the endowment to $16.3 billion from $22.9 billion.

Gifts to colleges and universities declined almost 12 percent in the 2009 fiscal year, the steepest decline recorded in 53 years.