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The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 is intended to provide more healthful school meals to a great number of students.With his wife by his side, President Obama on Monday signed the child nutrition bill, strongly pushed by the first lady, who has made nutrition part of her campaign to help the young get healthy.

American Sign Language is close to surpassing German as the third most studied foreign language at America's colleges and universities.

Edison Senior High math teacher Marelis Bombale, standing, discusses a 'central tendency measurements' lesson with freshman Alix Volcy, right, on Saturday, Dec. 5. Also in foreground are sophomores Sargine Pierre-Louis, left; and Darold Jean, center.

The House today approved a bill that would improve the safety and nutritional value of food served at schools and expand the number of schoolchildren ...

Parents have long raised concerns about school and library books — children's and young adult books, and sometimes dictionaries — often for inappropriate content. The number of reported challenges in the past 30 years has hovered between about 400 or 500 each year, says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, an attorney with the American Library Association.

A 15-year-old boy took 23 of his classmates and a teacher hostage in a classroom at a small-town Wisconsin high school on Monday, shooting himself as police broke in.

A northwestern Ohio school board is firing a longtime teacher after an investigation concluded she slept in class and repeatedly arrived late.

Long after most kids are home, dozens of 6th graders at Elmhurt Community Prep in Oakland are reading, writing and more, until 5 or 6 o'clock. Their academic bankers hours, which often reflect the workday of their parents, is part of an innovative program run by Citizen Schools, a federally-funded non-profit that targets at-risk middle-schoolers in some of the nation's toughest neighborhoods.

Bullying and harassment in schools often includes violations of federally protected civil rights, the federal government warned Tuesday in new guidelines for educators on how to address the problem.