Beverly Hall, the former superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools charged in what prosecutors had called a broad conspiracy to cheat on state exams, has died. Hall’s attorney J. Tom Morgan…
In a political embarrassment for Republicans, House GOP leaders on Friday abruptly cancelled a vote on a bill to update the George W. Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law…
“The Hunting Ground,” a documentary shocker about rape on American college campuses, goes right for the gut. A blunt instrument of a movie, it derives its power largely from the…
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…
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s official booster Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 to the city’s public schools. – A publicist for Swift says the singer will continue to…
By Elizabeth Gilbert Nearly all the women I know are stressing themselves sick over the pathological fear that they simply aren’t doing enough with their lives. Which is crazy —…
A windward Oahu elementary school is closed because strong winds blew off a portion of the cafeteria’s roof. – The gusty winds also disrupted other area schools. Mulcahy says after-school…
NORTHEAST SNOW Snow more: The records keep falling in Boston, where winter doesn’t seem to take a break. With a couple of feet of snow yesterday, Bean Town set a…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — About 100 people attended a vigil outside the Roman Catholic cathedral in San Francisco on Friday to protest the local archbishop’s move to require teachers at…
Only 3.8 percent of public high schools in the United States start at 9 a.m. or later — particularly troubling for the teens who learn there, who can barely manage…
The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on teachers to lead their…
Teach for America, the education powerhouse that has sent thousands of handpicked college graduates to teach in some of the nation’s most troubled schools, is suddenly having recruitment problems. For…
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS, France — Laïcité, the concept of state secularism, is a defining principle of the French republic, right up there with the national motto of liberty, equality and fraternity. Developed…
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana legislators on Wednesday considered whether to join every other state in the nation in putting anti-bullying policy into law. A bill introduced by Rep. Kimberly…
This article comes to us courtesy of U.S. News & World Report, where it was originally published. When Robert Grey attended law school at Washington and Lee University, connecting with…
The University of California, Santa Cruz took the top slot for the most campus disciplinary actions relating to drugs, according to a new analysis from Project Know, a website that…
“We already have policies in place at schools that require immunization records and things of that nature,” the conservative neurosurgeon, who is weighing a 2016 run for president, told CNN’s…
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina schools have partially lifted a ban on junk food. – Schools must apply for a waiver to allow snacks that don’t meet low-sodium, low-sugar,…
In a depressing reminder of the world that we all live in, an LGBT vlogger claims he has been forced to change schools after administrators threatened to expel him for,…
Millions will wake up Monday to sleet and blizzard conditions in the Northeast the second round of winter weather pounding in a week. The storm buried the Midwest in snow…
What goes on behind the walls of Pakistan’s most religious schools is kept relatively secret. However, BBC journalist Mobeen Azhar gained unprecedented access, allowing him to explain to HuffPost Live…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Board of Education voted Wednesday to take control of Little Rock schools less than six months after a federal judge granted more independence…
This article was written by teen reporters from The Mash, a weekly publication distributed to Chicagoland high schools. By Valerie Asimacopoulos, Maine South and Joe Hendrix, Daniel Hale Williams Just…
The divide is also clear in international educational measures. American children who go to schools with fewer than 10% of students eligible for subsidized lunch score close to the top…
Will Heininger, a sport management major at the University of Michigan, was living what was supposed to be a dream. He was playing football for UM, a school that shapes…
Groups against the expansion of charter schools may need to find new talking points. A study from Michigan State University professors Sarah Reckhow and Matt Grossman and University of Rochester…
On Monday, schools across the Northeast shut down or planned to close early to prepare for a blizzard. New York City Public Schools planned to be open Monday but canceled…
Forecasters are anticipating a major storm this week in the Northeast, and many schools are likely to be closed. And, if you are a parent like me, you have got…
When it comes to sex-ed, curriculums vary. Some schools teach abstinence-only, while others provide information about safe sex, but very few teach teens about consent. Two 13-year-olds living in Toronto,…
Every day in Birmingham, Alabama, students run the risk of being sprayed with a dangerous chemical weapon just by attending school, according to attorneys in a federal trial that began…