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A North Carolina principal is retiring after school district leaders halted a cash-for-grades fundraiser she approved.
Authorities in western Pennsylvania say a head-on crash killed three Edinboro University students.
Administrators have nixed a North Carolina middle school's cash-for-grades fundraiser. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that Wayne County school administrators have halted the plan at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro.
A former Pittsburgh man has been convicted again of killing two Ohio college students a decade ago.
Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond.
Some are there because of the recession, and others despite it. Regardless, more young Americans than ever are in college — especially community college, according to a new report.
International students and their dependents spent $160 million in Hawaii during the last academic year.
Some slackers among us see a silver lining to the global swine flu pandemic: a rock-solid excuse for getting out of absolutely anything.
A former Pittsburgh man again faces a possible death penalty in a retrial in the shooting deaths of two Ohio college students a decade ago.
Health advocates are hoping that a cheap red watch worn by college students like Alicia Nelson will become the new fashion trend on campus this fall.
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Students living in northern Mexico have skirted residency requirements to attend U.S. public schools for generations, but when the superintendent in one Texas border town got word that about 400 school-age children were crossing the international bridge each day with backpacks but no student visas, he figured he had to do something.
Getting ready to send your kid off to college? Or packing up your stuff and heading to campus yourself? Check out the discounts and special programs to student travelers and their families.
They scour the Web in search of stolen phrases, dig through documents looking for evidence of looting. They can’t issue citations, but they can certainly let you know if you’ve failed to include one. Yes, the plagiarism police are on the job.
Controversy over President Barack Obama’s address to children recalls a similar uproar over President George H.W. Bush’s appeal in 1991 for kids to send him ideas and reminds Americans that Bush and President Ronald Reagan made multiple such speeches.
The lawyer for two Pakistani students who returned home Saturday after being detained in Britain during a series of terrorism raids said they were frequently strip-searched and served tainted food — a claim the British embassy rejected.
An eastern Pennsylvania teenager will be on probation until his 21st birthday for his role in the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant.
- Sixty-five Oregon students were in quarantine in Beijing, China, after one of them tested positive for swine flu, a NBC News producer in Beijing said on Sunday.
A group of 20 students studying in Japan through the University of California, Davis, have been quarantined after two of their Japanese tutors were diagnosed with swine flu, a program coordinator said Wednesday.
In a June 17 story about the sentencing of two Shenandoah teenagers convicted of simple assault in the beating death of an illegal Mexican immigrant, The Associated Press erroneously identified the defendant who slumped at the defense table after being sentenced. It was Derrick Donchak, not Brandon Piekarsky.
Two teenagers convicted of simple assault in the beating death of an illegal Mexican immigrant that sparked outrage from Hispanic leaders and civil-rights groups were each sentenced Wednesday to at least six months behind bars.
One of several Pakistani students rounded up by British authorities on allegations of terrorism — later dropped — described his detention as "mental torture" after returning to his native country Thursday.
A judge sentenced two British men to life in prison Thursday for what he called the sadistic killing of two French students who were bound, tortured and stabbed to death in a London apartment last year.
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (rehn-DEL') wants the Department of Justice to file federal charges against two teenagers in the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant.
A group of 21 students and three teachers from a Maryland private school has been released from quarantine after being held by the Chinese government over fears about swine flu.
Why Canada can't stop bullies - Parentcentral.caDaniel Sebben was just 13 when the taunts began. Day after day, for the next three years, the Newmarket high school student faced homophobic slurs, insults and verbal abuse from a group of six boys.
The 'College City,' DefinedThe quintessential college town is lush and lined with quaint boulevards. It's Ann Arbor, Mich., Charlottesville, Va., and Boulder, Colo. It's dive bars and bookstores and movie theaters that still charge less than a meal.
Obama-Nation 101: Instilling Guilt in American ChildrenDimwitted guardians of our children don't understand the most basic concept of democracy and free speech.
Substitute Teacher Ties Up Students At Hickory Elementary School The families of some Southwest Elementary School students are angry because they say a substitute teacher acted inappropriately last week.
Obama promotes internet freedom in China while trying to stifle it at homeWilliam D. Zeranski When any president goes off to a foreign country and states that that government should stop censorship, well, that's a good thing.
Ex-NFL Players Bully Teens At Charity Game, Say ParentsBOSTON -- Stow police are investigating complaints against five former New England Patriots players who parents say roughed up several high school students during a charity basketball game on Saturday night.
American Public High School Stories: A Microcosm - amittaizero - Open Salon1st period – I finish explaining what pacifism is. To gauge their actual attentiveness, I ask several students what the word means. I don't care Mr. J., pacifists are of the devil. Traitors. Pussies. Scared people.
25 Chicago Students Arrested for a Middle-School Food FightThe food fight here started the way such bouts do in school lunchrooms most anywhere: an apple was tossed, a cookie turned into a torpedo, and an orange plunked someone in the head.
Six Students, Two Others Hurt In Laurel County, Kentucky School Bus Crash"Six students and two adults were hurt Thursday morning [November 12, 2009] after an accident involving a Laurel County school bus and an SUV."
Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision Survey Was Likely FabricatedIn detailing some of the evidence against Strategic Vision LLC, a pollster I am now almost certain is disreputable and fraudulent, I pointed in particular to a poll that they conducted on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, an conservative-leaning educational thinkt …
Cops: Harvard students cause fracas at club 1 allegedly assaulted officerThose wacky Harvard Business School students. Dress them in drag, and you don't know what they'll do. But it wasn't the lipstick and heels that got one partygoer in trouble at the HBS Australian and New Zealand Club's annual "Priscilla Ball," cops said.
UMass Student Sexually Assaulted In School LibraryBOSTON -- Officials at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a female student in a library bathroom on campus on Tuesday.
Op-Ed Contributor - Teach Your Teachers Well - NYTimes.com"Our best universities have, paradoxically, typically looked down their noses at education, as if it were intellectually inferior.
Obama pushes education reformsMADISON, Wis. After a year in office primarily spent trying to rescue the economy, President Barack Obama went back to school on the anniversary of his election Wednesday, telling America states must now focus on reforming education to ensure a strong economic future.
Lack of Paid Sick Days May Worsen Flu PandemicPublic health experts worried about the spread of the H1N1 flu are raising concerns that workers who deal with the public, like waiters and child care employees, are jeopardizing others by reporting to work sick because they do not get paid for days they miss for illness.
Former Conn. teacher denies sex assaultMILFORD, Conn.—A former Connecticut high school teacher took the stand in his sexual assault trial and denied having a sexual relationship with one of his students in 2003.
Cops throw book at drunk studentsCarousing college students have been hit with $21,000 worth of citations - and 30 have been arrested - so far this fall as police throw the book at young drunks in the Allston-Brighton area.
Fifteen students left with permanent scars after branding each other with heated coathangersFifteen students were left with permanent scars after branding themselves with heated coat hangers at a house party, it emerged today. The 'group challenge' saw each student brand themselves with the initial of the hall they lived in last year.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: American History TimelineSmithsonian Institution's American History Timeline resources for students.
Washington University students allege Chicago nightclub barred blacksStudents from Washington University say they have complained to state and federal agencies that a Chicago, Illinois, nightclub barred six African-American members from their senior class trip celebration while admitting nearly 200 white classmates.
How A Health Care Insurance "Mandate" Could Leave Many Worse Off The proposals now before Congress would require just about everyone to buy health insurance or to get it through their employers — which would generally result in lower wages.
Killing for religion is justified, say third of Muslim students (in UK)A third of Muslim students in Britain believe killing someone in the name of religion is justified, a new poll claims. The survey found that extreme Islamist ideology has a profound influence on a significant minority of Muslims on campuses across the country.
Late fees for tardy pick-ups at Portland grade schoolThere's some real news among today's Northwest headlines, beginning with a Southeast Portland elementary school that is borrowing a page from the playbooks of child care centers, video stores and libraries. Two words: late fees.
BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Your stories: 'I felt the world was coming to an end'School pupils affected by the earthquake in Padang, Indonesia, have been sending their stories to BBC News 'Hunger to Learn'.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rebuilding an education in quake-hit L'AquilaThe earthquake that struck L'Aquila last April destroyed many of the city's schools. For the last in our series Hunger to Learn, Duncan Kennedy has visited the Italian city to hear why pupils there no longer take education for granted.
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