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The issue of “sexting” has been widely covered by the media, but the practice of sending explicit images and text messages via mobile phones may be more common among minors than previously thought. A recent study of teen sexting conducted by the American Medical Association’s JAMA Network found that 28% of high school students …

As discussed in detail in my May 30 blog post, "Adjusting the Best High Schools Rankings for Government Data Errors," the federal government found that data from the 2009-2010 school year for a small number of schools that appeared in the U.S. News 2012 Best High Schools rankings was incorrect. The information came from …

Despite worries that the U.S. economy and the rising cost of higher education will lead to fewer students applying, one set of graduate applicants seems undeterred: international students.

At 27, with three children, Lorrie decided to go back to school full time to better provide for her family. Eight years later, she had an associate's degree, two bachelors degrees, and a master's degree. But she didn't have a job. For the past 4 years, Lorrie has been working as a paid intern, while looking for full time …

TORONTO (Reuters) - Goals Soccer Centres Plc accepted a 73.1 million pound ($115 million) buyout offer from one of Canada's biggest pension funds on Friday, setting the stage for a possible bidding war over the British operator of recreational-football centers. The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan -- better known simply as …

(Reuters) - Penn State University could face a record government penalty, potentially in the millions, for failing to report campus crime, including Jerry Sandusky's child sex abuse, experts said on Thursday. The Department of Education is investigating Penn State for possible violations of the Clery Act, which requires …

(Reuters) - Borrowers who took out private student loans in the run-up to the financial crisis are facing higher levels of default, reflecting the risky lending practices at the time, the Obama administration said in a new report. The Department of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said private lenders …

Student debt and skyrocketing tuition make headlines. But this week, both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have sought to highlight the silver lining – examples of how states and institutions have been trying to reduce the cost of higher education.

Graduates aren’t just leaving college with a diploma and a dream. Many are stepping into the real world with a mountain of student loan debt.

Education groups in Ohio are raising questions about the payout public schools will get after record-setting state lottery profits.

As Ohio considers new ways to pay for public schools, legislative analysts said Wednesday one option is to replace local property tax revenue with an increase in the state sales tax, but they cautioned that it might be a risky move.

A fact finder's recommendation to give Chicago teachers a double-digit raise was rejected Wednesday by both the city's teachers union and the governing board of the Chicago public school system, paving the way for a teacher strike.

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - South Carolina lawmakers voted in a special session on Wednesday to override dozens of budget vetoes by the state's governor that cut funding for teachers' pay raises, an arts commission, and non-profit rape crisis centers. Republican Governor Nikki Haley earlier this month vetoed …

Students are paying for more of their college education on their own now than they have for the past four years. Sallie Mae’s “How America Pays For College” study, reported by Bloomberg Businessweek, involved 801 undergraduates between the ages of 18 and 24 and 800 parents, and found that 30 percent of the total cost of …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a $1 billion program to recruit high-performing math and science teachers to mentor and evaluate their peers and help students excel. The so-called Master Teacher Corps program calls for recruiting 2,500 such educators at the outset and increasing that …

Talk of a possible Chicago teacher strike got louder Wednesday, as the head of the school system blasted a fact-finder's recommendation to give teachers a double-digit raise, saying it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and lead to mass-layoffs and classroom crowding.

To ratchet up math and science achievement in American schools, President Obama announced Wednesday a plan to create a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Master Teacher Corps.

Parents looking to save money for their child's college education might want greater stability than investing in the stock market but need more growth than what savings accounts offer. One option that could be more palatable: age-based 529 education savings plans.

Here's some bad news for parents: Even excluding college tuition, children are getting more expensive. The Agriculture Department reports that children born in 2011 will cost their parents $234,900 before they turn 18. That's 3.5 percent more than what those born in 2010 will cost. The report attributes the increase largely …

The Obama administration unveiled plans Wednesday to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost U.S. students' achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

Jane Lynch doesn't want you to struggle with student debt. On Tuesday, the actress launched the National College Finance Center website to provide a resource for educating students and their families about financing their college education. Lynch made a presentation in New York to highlight the features of the website and …

A settler body voted Tuesday to grant university status to Israel's only West Bank settlement college, overruling objections by Israel's Council on Higher Education and potentially stirring a new round of international condemnation against Israeli policies in the West Bank.

In a story July 13 about a New Jersey proposal to offer college tuition aid to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants, The Associated Press reported erroneously the town where New Jersey Assemblywoman Marlene Caride resides. She lives in Ridgefield, not West New York.