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More and more schools are seeing the benefits of equipping their students with tablet computers.

China tells schools to run more calligraphy classes because computers and mobile phones are ruining children's writing.

California students continued to make incremental gains in meeting minimal graduation standards, with 94.6 percent of the Class of 2011 passing the high school exit exam.

The schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, said he did not believe the increase meant that more misconduct was taking place.

With the help of a growing industry of energy consultants, officials are evaluating every detail of their daily operations and are replacing energy-guzzling equipment with more efficient models.

With schools under pressure to meet standardized testing goals, recess has been cut back and even eliminated in some school districts. The irony, experts say, is that schools may be shooting themselves in the foot by taking away playtime that's crucial to a child's growth.

A 19-year-old British student took her love for the Korean culture to new heights when she had her tongue surgically lengthened so she could speak the language better, the Telegraph reported.

Mandatory sex-education classes are returning to New York City public schools for the first time in nearly two decades.

As governor of Texas, Rick Perry has pursued a controversial agenda that would gut Texas' vaunted public university system in favor of something that more closely resembles a business.

Virginia Tech, site of a 2007 mass shooting that killed 33 people, issues an alert that a person with a gun could be on campus and urges the community to stay indoors. An initial search comes up empty.