Education News

Anxious students - not to mention their parents - can get a heads-up for how the redesigned SAT might look in two years.

District officials have also proposed a 25-cent meal price increase. Guidry said there has not been a price increase since 2008.

Gov. Bill Haslam's proposal to create a program that gives parents the option to move a child from a failing public school to a private school has once again failed to pass.

Democratic governor nominee Wendy Davis speaks to the Texas Retired Teachers Association at a convention at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas on Tuesday, April 15, 2014.

In the most wide-ranging survey of the nutrient to date, researchers found that levels of the vitamin varied wildly between seasons.

This spring, the testing resistance movement has exploded across the nation. It will continue to grow as the testing season heads into the final stretch.

Horry County emergency authorities are investigating an early morning fatal vehicle crash on U.S. 501 at Cultra Road and El Bethel Road, according to officials.

Eight lawmakers asked Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday to scrap plans to use tests associated with the Common Core education standards, a proposal that Jindal called 'a viable option' if the Legislature won't vote to jettison the tests.

With big bucks from Wall Street supporters behind her, charter network operator Eva Moskowitz won a fight she started with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio over charter schools.

A group of lawmakers is pressuring U.S. News & World Report to update its influential college ranking system to indicate which universities have come under fire for failing to adequately handle sexual assault cases on campus.

A 24-year-old man was shot in the face after he told officers that the suspects approached him outside a Myrtle Beach bar, followed him back to his room and then ordered him outside, according to a police report.

Four college courses will courses will be offered to juniors and seniors at Ocean Springs High School this fall.

The state Senate Education Committee will assess implementation of a new law overhauling high school curriculum and cutting the number of standardized tests students must pass.

The only daring shot Watson hit was one he really didn't need. The wild swing in momentum came on the front nine, not the back nine of Augusta National.

The athlete, who earlier said he was tired and struggling under the relentless interrogation, leaned back in the witness box and remained silent.

A years-long effort by state officials to help create standardized tests for South Carolina's public schools may become moot, leaving uncertain how students will be tested next spring.

As colleges and universities celebrate the good marks their graduates received, Derek Redelman said the data might not accurately reflect how educators are performing.

There are some people in life for whom an A on a report card was never good enough, who idly wondered why they were never above the 99th percentile on standardized tests and relentlessly beat themselves up whenever they came in second.

IPFW education majors, from left, Taylor Anderson, Carlye Bishopp and Kara Mettler listen to assistant professor Zeynep Isik-Ercan explain a project they are working on in class at Neff Hall.

The recognition comes as a result of outstanding performance on the annual PSAT standardized test, which measures them against high school sophomores.