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It looks like an iPad, only it's 1/14th the cost: India has unveiled the prototype of a $35 basic touchscreen tablet aimed at students, which it hopes to bring into production by 2011.

The nation’s governors and state school chiefs released final recommendations for what students should master in English and math.

Study shows reading scores improve when kids get a stack of 12 books at the end of the school year.

Seton Hill University plans to give every first year undergraduate student a 13" MacBook and an iPad. Just last month, George Fox University in Oregon also announced that it plans to give its new students a choice between a MacBook or an iPad.

Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable ...

A federal judge on Tuesday said he would not order a school district to hold a prom that it had canceled after an openly lesbian student asked to attend with her girlfriend.

The demonstrations, which are backed by a range of groups, are taking place on college campuses and at public schools.

Some critics question a University of Minnesota Medical School decision to stop using live patients to teach med students how ...

A USA TODAY analysis reveals that more students are failing Advanced Placement tests -- but the number of students taking the ...

Small, rural schools are being threatened as the economy forces deep cuts to education. They're vulnerable because they serve fewer students and cost more per pupil to operate than larger schools.