Education News

President Barack Obama is practically weepy at the thought of his daughter Malia going off to college, a milestone many months away that is already on his mind.

Nia Pierce from East Orange wowed the audience with the performance that placed her as Gold Medalist for Music Instrumental Contemporary on the harp.

Myron Burney has the job of recruiting students to Elizabeth City State University, where undergraduate enrollment has declined steadily over the last four years and could drop under 2,000 this fall.

Both major teachers unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, have been moving toward a more confrontational response to the push, from Democrats as well as Republicans, for public education to be more and more dominated by standardized testing.

With trappings that include a $60 million Innovation, Science and Technology building designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, it is the perfect symbol of a university built with the Silicon Valley-type industry in mind.

In Fulton County, Georgia, Atlanta, thirty-five educators, including the former superintendent, were indicted for a cheating conspiracy that covered nearly sixty schools.

The chart below is telling: SAT scores have been flat for over 40 years while education spending has increased 140%.

Congratulations to the following 8th graders in Union County School District who have achieved the South Carolina Junior Scholar Award for the school year 2013-2014.

People often ask, what do I think is the most important issue facing Louisiana? Or, if I could accomplish just one thing as governor what would it be? These are tough questions.

Law students are inundated with the pessimistic narrative that job prospects are dismal, law school debt is insurmountable, and the demand for new attorneys is waning.

Again and again the researchers toted 3-foot yellow-and-green contraptions fashioned from foam, plastic sewer pipe, gym weights and cheap GPS units into the surf, then walked along the beach to wherever the odd devices washed up and retrieved them under the gaze of puzzled sunbathers.

Students and teachers heading back to school after the summer break can expect a new type of test called Georgia Milestones designed to gauge how each is doing.

Opal Cliffs Elementary School is accepting applications for youngsters entering transitional kindergarten which is for students turning age 5 between Sept.

The usual pattern for the detection of plagiarism is for an adult to catch a student copying from someone else's work.

Lt. Todd Ojile said Friday the 29-year-old man was booked on suspicion of aggravated endangerment but has not been charged.

Parliamentary Education Committee chair person Sabina Chege has called upon all school heads to honor the directive to release KCPE and KCSE certificates belonging to needy students.

Rugby union fanatic James Teague was supposed to be sitting in the stands watching his beloved NSW Waratahs take on the ACT Brumbies on Saturday night.

The dog was not on a leash and was growling when it charged the man around 2 p.m. Thursday at Memorial Park.

OTHERS WERE TAKEN FROM CORRALES. THE STATE'S TOP EDUCATION OFFICIAL RECEIVED SOME SCRUTINY AFTER MISSPELLING A WORD IN A TWEET HER OFFICE SENT OUT.

DANIELLE HAIRSTON / Dispatch staff Rising third-graders Kamea Nelson and Ma'Ziyah Taylor count on their fingers to solve multiplication problems during a 50-question quiz Friday.