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Some Virginia Tech officials warned their own families about 90 minutes before a campus-wide alert was issued in the 2007 slayings of 32 people, according to a revised state report that details new fumbles in the response to the worst mass shooting in U.S. history....

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Thursday announced a $335 million investment in teacher effectiveness, with major grants for experiments in tenure, evaluation, compensation, training and mentoring in three large school systems ...

The U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday reported that 198 schools in 15 states had closed due to high absentee rates from ...

Students and faculty at UCLA are stunned following a horrific attack in a campus chemistry lab in which a male student allegedly ...

Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.

Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins.

School has yet to begin, but the ID cards for Reynoldsburg High School students might receive an "F" if they were part of an English class.

The federal government guidelines would place less emphasis on school closings in response to swine flu epidemic.

Two U.S. soldiers also die in a separate bombing as violence grows in scattered areas of the nation. A powerful truck bomb killed at least 25 people today, more than half of them schoolchildren, in a province just south of Kabul.

In a Tampa middle school locker room, prosecutors say four flag football players held down a younger teammate and committed a horrifying assault: Raping him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.