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Dozens of elementary, high schools get poor or failing grades in the district's own scoring system.

Do you troll US News for your College Ranking? Check out these top High Schools, as they just might give your alma-mater a run for its money. This in-depth article examines life at some of the most competitive and best regarded high schools around.

A high school sex education teacher has admitted moonlighting - as a porn star. Benedict Garrett had been outed as a stripper after pupils stumbled upon a website promoting his services as 'Johnny Anglais'. But now it has emerged that on top of his stripping routines, he also films sex scenes for titles such as European Honeyz 4....

President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better ...

Culminating a year’s work, a panel of educators convened by the nation’s governors and state school superintendents released a set of proposed common academic standards on Wednesday. The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn in math and English, year by year, from kindergarten to high school graduation.

A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School, including teachers ...

The proposal by state Sen. Chris Buttars would chip away at Utah's $700-million shortfall. He's since offered a toned-down version: Just make senior year optional. At Utah's West Jordan High School, the halls have swirled lately with debate over the merits of 12th grade...

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

Dueling theories of how the universe was created got a split decision Friday night from the Texas Board of Education, which required examination of "all sides of scientific evidence" in new science standards, but rejected language requiring teachers to teach the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories.