University of California graduate students walked off the job this week. The nearly 50,000 striking academic workers are asking for better pay and benefits. Nearly 50,000 academic workers across the ...

Walk onto a college campus and you’ll hear the same refrain: Students are exhausted. Young people will tell you they are stressed with exams and papers, while at the same time skipping class to catch ...

Last spring’s school assignment was a sea change for Gail Vanderbeek, a veteran Baltimore County Public Schools speech-language pathologist. Instead of being responsible for one school’s speech ...

There is a palpable point where school-related stress ceases to be a necessary part of the learning process and becomes an impediment to it. The university has implemented simple but effective ...

In the hospital lobby, I’m grading papers while my partner has surgery. It’s Friday at 5 p.m., and I hoped we’d be home in time for my 4:40 p.m. class, but when I found out the surgeons were running ...

WALTHAM (CBS) - Pandemic pets and their owners are putting a strain on overworked local veterinary offices and animal hospitals. But Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School just started a ...

AMERICAN STUDENTS are being overworked, says an alarmed chorus of newspapers, magazines, and books. As described by the popular media and even some academics, the crisis is reminiscent of “Sister ...

Second-year Ph.D. student in history Alison Choi said she felt physically and mentally relieved after finishing the teaching assistant requirement for graduate students. Choi said going to campus four ...

Dear Eric: I agree with your thoughts to “Overworked,” the high school student who was juggling work and high school. As a workforce development specialist and school-work-consultant here is an ...

In my 12 years of undergraduate teaching, I’ve never had a freshman verbally attack me for asking my Composition students to bring a hard copy of their writing assignment to a designated writing ...