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Industry leaders are praising a high-profile bill in the Texas Senate designed to give high school students more options in career and vocational training.Addressing the Senate Education Committee on Tuesday, ...

The New Mexico State Land Office says it brought in more than $52 million in revenue for public schools and other beneficiaries in January.Most of the money — $47.6 million — went to support public schools. ...

Public schools would be required to open up staff mailboxes and bulletin boards to all unions or groups working on behalf of educators under legislation debated Monday that opponents see as another Republican ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two University of Maryland students died early on Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide shooting, and a third was wounded in the incident, police said. The shooting began shortly after the gunman set a fire around 1 a.m. in the basement of his house near the campus in College Park. When his two roommates …

The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short …

Thaiana Rodrigues, the daughter of an esthetician in Rio de Janeiro, tried to get into college three times. But having spent most of her childhood in poor public schools – her anatomy teacher in seventh grade never showed up to class so she simply never learned the subject – Ms. Rodrigues was unable to pass the entrance …

Finally, the debate over troubled public schools has emerged on the national stage, where both sides say they are waging the civil rights battle of our time.

The fiscal cliff agreement in Washington will cut funding for Alabama's public schools and colleges by at least $70 million annually, state financial experts predict.The current talk in Washington about ...

Four-year colleges are often seen as the natural next step for high school students, but business leaders and politicians want teens to consider another option: community college.

Another week has brought another bumper crop of teachers getting busted for allegedly having sex with underage students.

In a rundown Appalachian town, Deborah Hicks once dreamed of an education that would take her far away from the life she knew. She was a precocious little girl who was angry about the harsh poverty that surrounded her.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest teachers union in the United States is telling President Barack Obama not to back down from promises he made in his January inauguration speech as the country prepares to begin a decade of billions of dollars in federal spending cuts. Obama will give his annual State of the Union address …

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Music teachers are now eligible for a Grammy honor of their own.

In America, there is no shortage of amazing higher education institutions, and there is no shortage of qualified applicants vying to get into them. It seems like an impossible task to determine just which university is the best, but the U.S. News & World Report has developed a college ranking system to do just that. 

A bar exam for teachers is an idea that has been recently brought forth by the teachers’ unions. While some educators believe this would provide a stronger gateway into the teaching profession, I do not think another test is the answer.

The value of college endowments, which had rebounded following the recession, declined slightly despite a recovering stock market. This finding comes from the newly released 2012 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments, produced by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Students may soon be able to receive college credit for the free online courses that are reshaping higher education.

Nebraska State Treasurer Don Stenberg is teaming up with the Nebraska Council on Economic Education to promote financial literacy of Nebraska high school students.Stenberg and council president Roger Butters ...

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — As a little girl, Lauren Rousseau would create make-believe classrooms with dolls and a small blackboard. And when a gunman invaded Sandy Hook Elementary School, the substitute with a life-long dream of being a teacher died doing her best to keep the children calm.

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — As a little girl, Lauren Rousseau would create make-believe classrooms with dolls and a small blackboard. And when a gunman invaded Sandy Hook Elementary School in December, the substitute with a life-long dream of being a teacher died doing her best to keep the children calm.

It almost sounds like a Woody Allen joke. Most Americans say postsecondary education is just too expensive, according to a new Gallup poll. Yet more than 1 in 4 say the quality of higher education has become worse.

An Idaho Republican stokes controversy by introducing a bill that would force high school students to read Ayn Rand's 1,100-page love letter to capitalism

Hawaii lawmakers are investigating the rising cost of tuition at the University of Hawaii and are pushing to reform the system's board of regents.Senators in the Committee on Higher Education approved ...