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Two days after 76 applicants were mistakenly told they had been accepted to Vassar College, the school’s president apologized for the confusion and said the college would reimburse the students’ $65 application fees.

The New York City Department of Education announced that Natalie Ravitz, the department's communications director, is leaving on Feb. 10. Ms. Ravitz, who was appointed by the former chancellor, Joel I. Klein, is going to be the chief of staff to Rupert Murdoch, for whom Mr. Klein now works.

Claremont McKenna College said it submitted false SAT scores to publications like U.S. News & World Report that use the data in widely followed college rankings.

While making college more affordable is a notion nearly everyone supports, consensus is more elusive on how to actually accomplish it.

Helpful news out of the city's Education Department: It has released a directory of all elementary school programs in the public schools, just in time to help parents who are registering their 5-year-olds for kindergarten.

New York City is moving ahead with plans to significantly change 33 low-performing schools in danger of losing federal grant money. At the same time, the city and teachers' union are negotiating a new teacher evaluation system, one of the conditions to winning federal aid. Which will happen first: 33 schools get shuttered or a deal is made on how to evaluate teachers and fire the weakest ones?

For Kyu Nakama, a senior at Brooklyn Technical High School in New York City, the college acceptance Facebook page conveyed good news for others, at least early on.

Is blogging therapeutic?

Can you choose the most likely actions of someone who adopts the guise of a literary character.

Why are book publishers worried?

On Jan. 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.

A selective liberal arts college admits to falsifying its' students median SAT scores, in an apparent bid to boost its standing on college rankings.

Vassar College apologizes for leading students to believe they had been accepted when they had not.

David N. Roberts, chairman of Riverdale Country School's board of trustees, and Dominic A.A. Randolph, Riverdale's head of school, sent an e-mail message in response to an article about the high cost of private school tuition. Riverdale charges $40,450 for 12th grade, but spends $1.10 for every $1 charged, they say.

A project tracked the academic performance of more than 21,000 New York City students who applied for ninth grade admission at 105 small high schools, mainly in Brooklyn and in the Bronx, from 2005 to 2008.

All of the political talk in the last week about negotiations over a state teacher evaluation system seems to be having some impact: more principals are putting their name to a letter that protests the state's system. The latest tally is 1,318 signatures. New York lists 4,511 principals in the state.

Samantha Garvey, an 18-year-old senior in Long Island, was named a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search for her work with mussels.

Public Prep, a charter school network in New York City, said a senior member of the finance and operations staff used the organization's credit card to spend tens of thousands of dollars on personal items. The staff member has resigned, and the network said all but $1,000 should be recouped through insurance.

The median price of first grade has gone up by 48 percent over 10 years, and parents at three schools are waiting to find out whether they will be joining the $40,000-a-year club.

The George Washington University School of Business STAR E.M.B.A. program is the first executive M.B.A. for professional athletes.