Until now, college students mostly have relied on word of mouth, professors’ reputations, previous student evaluations and the often rude and anonymous comments (complete with a “hotness” ranking) on RateMyProfessors.com before choosing a professor for a particular class.

Ten years after the clergy sex abuse crisis hit the news, we talk with two reporters who were instrumental in uncovering the scandal, WBUR’s Sacha Pfeiffer and Northeastern University distinguished professor Walter V. Robinson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the subject.

A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, additional medicines derived from or inspired by the cannabis plant itself could soon be making their way to pharmacy shelves, according to drug companies, small biotech firms and university scientists.

Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the U.S. needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.

Whoever heard of the Costa Concordia? Now, we all know its name. And the infamy -€“ so far -€“ of its “€œI’€™m out of here”€ captain, Francesco Schettino.

General studies takes various shapes. But many programs are aimed at students who are not accepted elsewhere in the university and referred by admissions. If in good standing on completion, they can transition into the larger university.

On Thursday morning, Apple announced a series of related initiatives designed to modernize learning based around its iPad tablet. Apple is hoping to “reinvent textbooks” and change the way we learn with an updated iBooks 2 app, which works with interactive textbooks built with the iBooks Author desktop app, and an expansion of iTunes U […]

The Massachusetts unemployment rate last month fell below 7 percent for the first time in three years, but employers cut jobs – a sign that the state’s economy may be slowing after a burst of growth early last year.

A child was charged with murder and felony assault in the fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old boy, authorities said Wednesday.

When John McCain endorsed Mitt Romney just before the New Hampshire primary, there was some tittering about all the nasty things the Senator from Arizona said about his former rival during the 2008 Republican nominating contest—like when he called Mr. Romney a “phony” in an ad. That was a little embarrassing, especially since the John […]

January has not been a good month for media ombudsmen, as the in-house press analysts at our two leading newspapers have both come under attack for writing lazy, ill-considered commentaries that seemed to confirm the views of their most strident critics.

The arrest on Wednesday of technology analyst Jon Horvath marks the fourth time in two years that U.S. authorities have implicated or charged a person with engaging in insider trading while working at SAC Capital. It is the latest to come from an investigation FBI agents have coined Operation Perfect Hedge.