Former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty emphasized the importance of reforming public education in the nation's capital regardless of the political consequences in Lohrfink Auditorium on Tuesday. In his speech...

The Department of Education hosted the first ever Voices in Action: National Youth Summit on Saturday to discuss how to make U.S. college graduation levels the highest in the world by 2020. The summit...

As Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the White House Wednesday, first lady Michelle Obama stepped on stage at Howard University to encourage students to study abroad in the dignitary's home country. "Studying...

A survey cited in a 2007 Washington Post article revealed that a quarter of Americans did not read a single book in the year before the article's publication. When I read articles like this, articles...

It seems like everywhere you turn, from movies to the front page of THE HOYA, everyone is talking about the state of public education in the United States. Lately, it's been primarily in reaction to the...

Every semester, Georgetown language students dish out $70 in lab fees, but many have never seen the inside of the lab room. In an era of continuously emerging technologies, the language lab could...

I LOVE BEING A JESUIT. ONE OF THE greatest joys of Jesuit life is that in joining the project of my life to the project of the Society of Jesus and its mission in service of the Church and the world, I...

Congress will kickstart debate this week on a bill that could open doors for thousands of U.S. students in search of something we know well: a college education. The Development, Relief and Education for...

The District may see an overhaul of Mayor Fenty's approach to education reform following Vincent Gray's primary election victory on Sept. 14. Gray's election also signals less far-reaching changes for...

Few would deny that the arrival of 75 million federal dollars on the doorstep of Washington, D.C.'s struggling public school system seems like a very positive development. Here in D.C., where the test...

Schall holds the minority opinion that used bookstores may be more important to civilization than universities. You ask, of course, where would used bookstores get their used books if there were no professors...

The U.S.-Afghan Women's Council hosted a reception Monday night to facilitate the ongoing discussion and creation of student initiatives focusing on the women of Afghanistan. Over 50 students, faculty,...