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Even as schools raise prices on meals, new guidelines under federal consideration threaten to put an added burden on an already budget-strained program.

A Tampa mother is defending her decision to stick her teenage son on a street corner with a sign that says, among other things, "GPA 1.22 ... honk if I need education."...

If a computer can win at Jeopardy, can one grade the essays of freshmen?

Critics say the Chinese education system, though tops in test-taking, has a shortfall in producing students who are innovative and creative.

Some investors found reasons to be optimistic in Mr. Obama’s proposal to cut corporate taxes and increase spending for education, innovation and infrastructure.

President Obama invoked the space race with the Soviet Union to challenge Congress to rise above partisanship and work with him to usher in a new age of American innovation in his State of the Union address Tuesday.

Only one or two out of 100 displayed a mastery of science on nationwide tests, the Department of Education said.

They don't agree with all of Amy Chua's strict, controversial methods — banning play dates, sleepovers and all grades lower than A. But setting high expectations has some value, they say. In "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" (Penguin Press, 2011), Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua describes child-rearing techniques that, as she puts it, "would seem unimaginable — even legally actionable — to Westerners."

Spending money on tablet computers may seem an extravagance, but some educators say they are more than just a cool new toy.

Once an internal measure that principals could choose to heed or ignore, the city’s teacher ranking system has been thrust into the spotlight, bringing its relevance into question.