Past Coverage

• Sylvan Learning Systems Acquires Paris College - December 14, 2001
• Sylvan Learning Systems Sells Money-Losing Division That Teaches English - October 27, 2000
• Critics See Conflict of Interest in Ties Between ETS and Sylvan - March 12, 1999
• Sylvan Learning Systems to Start a Network of For-Profit Universities Overseas - January 29, 1999
• Sylvan Will Shed Its Tutoring Business to Focus on Higher Education - March 21, 2003

Featured Commentary

• The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps

  The Berkeley students who protested the big tuition increase at the University of California impressed Murray Sperber, who was in their shoes 45 years ago.

• Teaching Matters: Creating Lives in the Classroom

  Online avatars bring German history to life for students at Stanford. Edith Sheffer explains.

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  A Fine Legal Mess: When Student Groups Collide With Anti-Bias Policy

  Can a college compel a student group to abide by antidiscrimination rules that violate its religious views? The U.S. Supreme Court isn't saying, writes Robert M. O'Neil.

Campus Viewpoint

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