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Sergio Garcia, a gay student, beats out the female candidates. His campaign started out as a bit of a stunt, but it ended up generating dialogue about gender roles on the L.A. campus.

Swine flu sickened 21 more students in Japan and Turkey reported its first case of the potentially pandemic virus that's spread to about 40 countries.

An unidentified Florida teen says her school's yearbook has a photo of her inadvertently exposing her privates, as seen in this video grab. The girl says she didn't wear underwear to school that day.

At least 74 elementary, junior high and high schools have closed across the country because of confirmed or probable cases of swine flu, the Department of Education said Wednesday.

On May 4, 2007, Kara Kopetsky, a 17-year-old high school junior in Belton, Missouri, was not having a good day.

The father of a south-central Missouri baseball player who died after being hit by a wild throw said Friday that he doesn't blame the pitcher.

The high school dropout problem is getting better in some big cities where it's most severe, a national study found, but the ...

If you recall that two unpopular teenage boys from the Trench Coat Mafia sought revenge against the school jocks by shooting up Columbine High, you're wrong. But you're not alone.

Dueling theories of how the universe was created got a split decision Friday night from the Texas Board of Education, which required examination of "all sides of scientific evidence" in new science standards, but rejected language requiring teachers to teach the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories.