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Why Are Students Being Pushed Toward College ? Follow the money! The Associated Press reported that over 53% of people with degrees are jobless or underemployed while Texas legislators and the Texas Education Agency push college readiness standards.

Former U.S. homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano, two months into her new job as president of the University of California system, expressed skepticism Friday about the workability of a college rating system the Obama administration is developing.

They posted perfect scores on two sections of state standardized tests, have exemplary attendance records and, according to a Hayward Unified official, are just "good kids."

A coalition of education, labor, civic and civil rights organizations, led by the American Federation of Teachers, is staging a "National Day of Action" on Monday with dozens of coordinated events in cities across the country that are aimed at building a national movement to fight corporate-influenced school reform and offer alternative ways to ... (more)

Hannah and Tom Hepner of Quincy, Calif., parents of identical triplets, hold, from left, Abby, Laurel, and Brindabella in a self care room at Sutter Memorial on Dec. 4. According the Sacramento Bee newspaper, doctors have announced that a couple gave birth in late November to a set of naturally conceived identical triplets.

A crowd that only left standing room at Wednesday night's "New City Kids Bash" celebrated a sixth year of a 100% high school graduation rate and college entry for the teens who work at the two after school centers near McGinley Square in Jersey City.

NORTHERN KENTUCKY ACCUSED OF HAVING A SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A TEENAGE STUDENT ... HAS CHANGED HIS PLEA WLWT NEWS 5'S KRISTY DAVIS IS LEADING THE WAY ON THE STORY...WITH DETAILS ON WHAT HAPPENED IN COURT THIS MORNING.

Indiana's school voucher program, already the broadest in the nation, would be expanded to preschool-aged children under a plan Gov. Mike Pence announced Thursday as part of his 2014 agenda.

Mild weather will be with us today as highs top out around 60 degrees. The forecast flips to winter by Thursday night as we start tracking rain/sleet/ice and snow.

Outraged over the new testing requirements, one student decided to plan a walkout, though students never followed through, the student who originally planned the walkout now faces suspension.

If an adult working a full-time job can't eat, find a place to live, and clothe herself, then the United States is breaking its social contract.

I have come to a conclusion. The federal government, especially under the Obama administration, does not like success.

Amid the national debate over how best to improve our nation's public schools, data from scientific studies often are used to bolster one argument or discredit another - about the effectiveness of charter schools, say, or the value of standardized testing.

THE FIRST GIRL WAS AT A BUS STOP ON CEDAR LANE. 20 MINUTES LATER, ANOTHER GIRL REPORTED THE MAN APPROACHING HER, RIGHT NEAR KNOWLTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

Don't try to sneak any risque language - or even watered down euphemisms - past Google's banned words directory included in the latest version of Android.

Bay Area schools fared well on this list of 2,000 schools, with six in the top 114, including Monte Vista High in Cupertino and Mission San Jose in Fremont .

In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors' success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate of an examination hall in Seoul, South Korea.

Numbers compiled by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance show per school student spending rose just over one percent during the last school year.

NOT A LOT BUT TO US EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS. THIS PAST WEEK WHEN FAMILIES WERE GATHERING AROUND THE TABLE TO GIVE THANKS, ONE SCHERTZ FAMILY HAD A UNIQUE BLESSING TO COUNT.

Public school letter grades, teacher evaluations and student promotion won't be affected by Louisiana's shift to more rigorous educational standards for two years, the state's top school board decided Tuesday.