The Massachusetts boarding school examined what would happen if their students got an extra hour of sleep every night.
Researchers at the New York University medical school examined the protection against ultraviolet rays afforded by cotton shirts and how it can be enhanced.
For entrepreneurs, Mr Booth, along with Elizabeth Pontikes of Chicago's Booth school, examined the performance of start-ups in the software industry between 1990 and 2001.
SmartMoney and PayScale considered a melange of factors in their formula, including tuition and fees today and a decade ago, recent graduate median pay and mid-career graduate median pay to come up with a "payback ratio" for each school examined.
Four descriptive case studies of Spanish-speaking newcomer immigrant youth in New York City public high schools examine how schools structured peer linguistic resources.
But maybe it's not too surprising: according to the survey, none of the schools examined require American history courses for graduation.
Rather than proposing sweeping systemic changes, many experts suggest that Mr. Klein's early energies should be trained on finding the city's most successful schools, examining their strategies and replicating them in the lowest-performing schools.
One in six state schools examined by the government are flouting admissions laws by demanding parents reveal their income and marital status and, in some cases, pay fees, ministers warned today.
The Houston Independent School District will dock the salary of the former principal and a computer technician at Sharpstown High School, where false claims of no dropouts led to a state audit that found that nearly all the Houston schools examined were vastly undercounting dropouts.
The report from Ofsted, based on a survey of 60 schools, examines the quality of careers advice since responsibility was given to individual schools last year.
