The man who became the Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” was a relatively hardworking student who showed no signs of being radicalized, his former school principal said Monday….
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…
Tori and Lexi Weeks are identical twins in Arkansas, and their looks aren’t the only things that match up. Both girls also excel with their athletic ability. According to The…
But two floors below the Conservative Political Action Conference’s cavernous ballroom, there’s an entirely different show. An eclectic — and sometimes bewildering — mix of more than 120 vendors are…
What makes a good teen movie? Tina Fey? The 2004 version of Lindsay Lohan? Glen Coco? “Mean Girls” has become the definitive high school comedy and “The DUFF” may be…
Today’s Huffington Post Gay Voices RaiseAChild.US “Let Love Define Family™” series installment features a couple who finds joy and meaning in keeping in touch with the biological family of the…
After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school’s stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him “as a…
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…
Spring Break 2015 is finally here, so hopefully you’ve been hitting the gym and drinking all your protein like a good bruuh because it’s high time to show everyone that…
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…
Last year we featured the stories of Drew Davis and Juan Varona, two gay Erskine College volleyball players who had found acceptance from their teammates in the small school in…
It all started after tractors clearing land for the construction of a new dorm at the Maseno school near Kisumu encountered pit latrines. During the building process faeces started leaking…
Athletes on the women’s field hockey team at the University of California, Berkeley, are considering a lawsuit against the school for taking away their field to build a parking garage…
He can barely drive, but that didn’t stop him from trying. This koala thought he could make a clean getaway with a Land Rover near Maude in Victoria on Monday,…
A police chief in Texas said he believes his colleagues contribute to increased high school dropout rates and reinforce the school-to-prison pipeline when they, rather than school administrators, discipline students…
I was raised in a tight knit family. Both sets of my grandparents lived in my small home town, as well as all of my aunts and uncles. I went…
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…
MILVILLE, N.J. (AP) — A school bus aide has been charged with stealing lunch money and bagged lunches from preschoolers in New Jersey. – Rios was charged Friday with robbery…
She’s been dubbed the “Malala” for Syrian refugees and it’s easy to see why. After fleeing the horrors of her country’s bloody civil war, Mezon Almellehan and her family made…
More than one-third of kids in America are obese or overweight. In 2013, the National School Lunch Program, a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools,…
JUST BEFORE DAWN, on the unseasonably warm morning of February 24, 1992, a small house caught fire in Old Hickory, Tennessee, a few miles northeast of Nashville. The one-story cinderblock…
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….
By: Cari Nierenberg, Contributing writer Published: 02/23/2015 03:09 AM EST on LiveScience New guidelines released today by a leading U.S. pediatricians group urge a more practical, commonsense approach toward nutrition…
The University of Oregon filed a counterclaim earlier this month against a female student who accused the school of mishandling her sexual assault case, insisting her lawsuit will deter rape…
Pakistani authorities have arrested a suspect in the December 16 attack on a public school in Peshawar that left more than 140 people dead, most of them children. – CNN’s…
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 coaxing his students…
Bol Bol, center, during a junior varsity game at Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park, Kan. Bol, the son of the former N.B.A. player Manute Bol, is a freshman.”…
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,…
Bol Bol, right, with his teammates from Bishop Miege High School in Roeland Park, Kan., before a home game. Bol, the son of the former N.B.A. player Manute Bol, is…
The girls, two of them 15 and one 16, have not been seen since Tuesday, when, police say, they took a flight to Istanbul. One has been named as Shamima…