Education News

Can you imagine being taught how to read, write and do math at age 3 - by your 5-year-old brother? That may sound unusual and even amazing, but to Hannah Wildes, that was merely her starting point.

If states truly want to improve their education systems, they need to do away with the rules, regulations, and bureaucracies that stymie innovation.

North Carolina police are investigating why it took more than an hour to dispatch officers to the home of a real estate developer who killed his wife and two teenage children and himself last week.

South Carolina authorities say three people are dead and five more have been hurt in a shooting in a small town about 40 miles west of Charleston.

'HOW would you respond to a terrorist bomb attack on a supermarket?' police have asked people at a counterextremism conference in Burton.

Parents of high school seniors across the country have hired me as an admissions consultant.

A North Carolina man serving time in a Georgia prison is set to face murder charges in the slayings of his brother and sister-in-law more than two decades ago.

A vice president for shipping giant UPS who was accused of raping a 21-year-old Indiana University student over homecoming weekend has committed suicide in Georgia, police said Monday.

Beginning next year, a lot of Louisiana high school classrooms could look like Wes Sebren's: equipped with welding gear, safety goggles and circular saws.

When Kevin Jennings was appointed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to the post of assistant deputy secretary to the head the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools in July, the move was lauded by the LGBT community as a step in the right direction for the Obama administration's commitment to diversity.

When Mary Grimm started at ACT, it was 1968, she was fresh out of high school, and there were 100 employees.

State Department of Education leaders said they will apply for a portion of $4 billion in federal stimulus money for school reform available to states, and they think they have a shot at getting it.

Jerome Dyson scored 32 points in his season debut, and No. 12 Connecticut breezed to an 88-50 exhibition victory over UMass Lowell on Sunday.

A Myrtle Beach man was arrested after he brushed up against a police officer who was searching for a fugitive at an apartment complex, according to a police report.

The roommate of a South Carolina woman charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of a 3-year-old girl in her care is also facing similar charges.

Three-hundred-and-twenty freshmen at West Craven High School pledged to graduate from high school and attend school regularly at a ceremony on Tuesday.

What is the 21st century classroom like? How is the educational setting evolving with recent advances in technology? How are students and teachers alike adapting to the change? These, and other questions, were discussed at the just-concluded 1st Philippine Summit on Early Childhood Education sponsored by Wyeth Preschool Gold and Maximus Inventus in ...

Two Greenville County high school seniors will have a distinct advantage as the college application season gets under way: a perfect 2400 score on the SAT test.

If you're throwing around the term "app" a lot but it has nothing to do with iPhones, you must have a high school senior in the family working on a college app.

On October 22-23, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology met for the second time to discuss science related issues facing the nation.