As the federal government’s role in K-12 education has grown, so has the debate over whether, when and how it should intervene in what has traditionally been a state and local governmental responsibility. And, at what age should the government begin taking an interest in the development of its youngest citizens?

Last week, the Brookings Institution held an event titled “Innovation Imperative: The Future of Higher Education,” and centered around a new study released by Northeastern University that examined both public perceptions of higher education in the United States as well as what young Americans today want out of their college and university experiences.

There is plenty of precedent for entertainers making a successful transition into politics, and in recent years Ashley Judd has been gradually reorienting herself in that direction. A recent graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, she is an intelligent and passionate woman who does not shy away from the issues she believes in. A […]

A variety of vehicles, where and when they need them, and at affordable rates — that’s the bottom-line for car-sharing customers, according to independent research conducted by Northeastern University’s Fleura Bardhi and Suffolk University’s Giana M. Eckhardt: “Access Based Consumption: The Case for Car Sharing.” According to ScienceDaily.com, the researchers discovered that their “study challenges […]

The charred sites began appearing across Southeastern Massachusetts in late September, a growing cluster of at least 16 suspicious fires from Quincy to Sandwich that is feared to be the destructive work of a serial arsonist. The latest fire, ruled an ­arson, happened late Monday night in a vacant outbuilding at the old Raynham dog […]

For Hugh Courtney, dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, his arrival couldn’t have been better timed. Courtney began his tenure as the dean July 1, two months later the business school received a $60 million gift from alumni Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim to rename the business school from the College of Business […]

The murder/suicide committed on Saturday by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher left the National Football League, its fans and health professionals struggling to understand what drove him to do it. Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, said he saw the Belcher tragedy as something that speaks to societal […]

The failure of Rupert Murdoch’s pioneering iPad newspaper The Daily underscores the problems of the news industry as it seeks a paid model for the digital age, analysts said. Murdoch announced Monday that The Daily, launched as a paid subscription for the Apple tablet, would be shuttered December 15 due to a lack of readers. […]

I MET with students at Northeastern University recently, and they were gung-ho about going to work on climate change: They’d gone way past their old focus on recycling to start demanding that the college divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. They were nerving themselves up for a real fight; it was fun to see. […]

Colleges and universities across the country are investing in building efficiency and renewable energy to save money and the environment. Living on Earth’s Bobby Bascomb reports from Boston’s Northeastern University that small changes can add up to big savings.

A plate of an American flamingo from John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America”; a Johannes Ruysch map, the first obtainable one to depict America; and a watercolor of New York at night by artist Rudolf Daniel Ludwig Cronau are just some of the many items that will be on auction this Wednesday at the […]

Photos of athletes in their moment of victory or defeat usually show faces contorted with intense emotion. But a new study suggests that people actually don’t use those kinds of extreme facial expressions to judge how a person is feeling. Instead, surprisingly, people rely on body cues.