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The nation’s school children made little or no progress in reading proficiency in recent years, according to results released Wednesday from the largest nationwide reading test. The trend of sluggish achievement contrasts with dramatic gains made in mathematics during the same period.

The suspect, identified as a 41-year-old doctor with personal and professional problems, is in custody in Fujian province. At least eight children were slain by a man brandishing a knife outside an elementary school in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, authorities said Tuesday.

Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

Students were evacuated from a school in Detroit Wednesday morning after a student detonated a homemade explosive in the building, MyFoxDetroit.com reported. There was no fire at Phoenix Multi-Cultural Academy, but smoke did fill the air ...

Air tests at a New Hampshire school where more than 20 people showed symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning have turned up no ...

Grief counselors are on hand at a suburban Dallas elementary school after a 9-year-old boy was found hanged in a school bathroom. Police in The Colony say the fourth-grader was found by school staff at Stewart's Creek Elementary ...

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.

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.

A Northern California elementary school teacher sent her students home for the summer with a video of class memories, only the DVD included six seconds of her having sex on a couch.