A Southern California teacher who committed suicide by hanging herself in her classroom was a well-liked 31-year-old photography instructor, authorities said Monday. Students arriving at El Dorado High School found…
According to Steve Concialdi, with the Orange County Fire Authority, students had been waiting outside the classroom to get in. Another teacher opened the door. – CNN’s Sonya Hamasaki contributed…
NEW YORK (AP) — City University of New York is returning thousands of dollars to about 150 immigrant students who live illegally in the U.S. and overpaid for their tuition….
One Philadelphia homeless shelter used to have a major pea problem. Bethesda Project’s My Brother’s House had an abundance of smooth Alaska peas for its clients, but demand did not…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Students frustrated over a new standardized test walked out of schools around New Mexico in protest Monday as the new exam was being given. The backlash…
“…a National University; and also a Military Academy. The desirableness of both these Institutions, has so constantly increased with every new view I have taken of the subject, that I…
Boston University is teaching students about safe sex and sexual health with a little bit of help from none other than wizard extraordinaire Harry Potter. Last week, as part of…
When my two eldest girls went off to college, I began to look for a part-time job. Through the grapevine, I heard of an opening for a part-time substitute teacher…
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — As drug overdoses left two Wesleyan students fighting for their lives, witnesses helped investigators quickly identify the suspects: The drug-dealing was an open secret, according to…
It started with a wine cooler, said Paige Cederna, describing that first sweet, easy-to-down drink she experienced as a “magic elixir.” “I had no inhibitions with alcohol,” said Ms. Cederna,…
What started out as a school project about teen dating violence quickly turned into something much larger for six Texas students. The girls, who are in sixth, seventh and eighth…
A Texas mom is behind bars after she apparently pulled a gun during a fistfight between high school students. – “I don’t think a grown woman should be taking a…
A federal panel on Thursday recommended that two new meningitis vaccines only be used for rare outbreaks, resisting tearful pleas to give it routinely to teens and college students. The…
House Republicans attached language to a major education bill Wednesday night that would financially penalize school districts that allow school-based health centers to provide information about abortion to pregnant high…
For years, it was information shared only in whispers. An undocumented student, bright and educated, wanted to go to college, and a precious few universities were willing, very quietly, to…
The lives of young gun violence victims in Chicago may be lost, but an art project by local high school students seeks to make sure that they are not forgotten….
Earlier this month, an attention-grabbing 30-second video, released by the Mystic Valley Area Branch of the NAACP and featuring Medford High School students, debunked many stereotypes and myths about young…
Last November, Latonya Suggs, a 28-year-old Cincinnati woman with an infant son, went to a hotel ballroom in Southern California and told two of the federal government’s top education officials…
Four Wesleyan University students were arrested Tuesday in connection with a dozen hospitalizations among people who took a party drug known as Molly. The students were arrested on assorted drug…
Long and luxurious eyelashes have been in fashion at least since Cleopatra. But scientists now suggest that their real function is to help protect eyes from drying out. David Hu…
Two juniors with special needs were just crowned prom king and queen. Jebbah Kamara and Dustin Johnson, both students at Murray High School in Utah, took home the honor Friday….
Do you have a tendency to drop F-bombs when you talk? No, not that F-bomb. We mean “feminism”! While the definition of feminism continues to evolve and grow, it’s basically…
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Wesleyan University’s president on Monday urged students to come forward with knowledge of anybody distributing drugs on campus following a rash of hospitalizations among people who…
The president of the of the university, located in Middletown, Connecticut, said that eight students remained hospitalized. Four were expected to be released from the hospital Monday, he wrote in…
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — For Tomás Péndola, an immigrant from Argentina, it was a normal week teaching chemistry in a public high school here, filling a whiteboard with dense equations…
And in partisanship. The College Board, which creates standards for what knowledge students in AP classes must demonstrate to get college credit for taking the course, introduced a new 95-page…
Catholic students in San Francisco are speaking out against their archbishop — and they chose one of the holiest days on the church’s calendar to do so. On Ash Wednesday,…
BOSTON (AP) — Boston College has become more difficult to navigate for people with disabilities in recent years, according to former and current students whose complaints have prompted an investigation…
Federal staffers, college students, teachers and non-profit workers clad in snow gear and costumes—one man dressed as Captain America—clashed in a fog of white powder. Area schools were closed and…
Students at Auburn University may be turning their home-building expertise into real-world housing market solutions. Since 1993, the university’s Rural Studio Design Workshop has allowed students to ditch the comforts…