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The Philadelphia-area high school teacher who was suspended for blogging about some of her "lazy" and "frightfully dim" students will get her ...

The teenage outdoor education students, having progressed to the point of being on their own in the vast Alaska wilderness, were lined up single file for a river crossing when the grizzly burst with fury into the front of the line, badly mauling two in the group and injuring two more.

Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers....

American student Amanda Knox's bid to overturn her conviction for the murder of her British roommate in Italy may have been given a boost by fresh DNA analysis, Italian news agency ANSA reported Wednesday.

A man convicted of murdering a British exchange student testified that he believes her roommate, Amanda Knox, and her ex-boyfriend killed he ...

A building at Boston College has been evacuated after reports of a chemical explosion inside a classroom.

Students who are night owls have worse grades in high school and the beginning years of college, research has shown.

Schools are responding to concerns that high-stakes testing and competition for college have fueled a grind that does little to raise achievement.

Some private liberal arts colleges are offering graduates help repaying loans.

The U.S. Education Department has issued tougher rules regulating and financing for-profit colleges, whose students disproportionately default on college loans.