Education News

Current discourse about student loan debt and the cost of a college education fail to really help a student and his family decide how to best finance sending the student to a good college.

While summer can be a great time for family fun, it can also pose a challenge to many students.

The occasional road trip to Vermont is always littered with memories. This recent one was permanently etched with an odd encounter with an old friend.

The room was largely empty, but Director of Schools Jesse Register's call to stop to the fighting over Nashville education was heard far and wide last night.

Even though there are more resources for parent, sometimes it's easier to learn in an interactive environment and the Maryland Science Center has programs just for kids who learn at home.

Gov. Jerry Brown and the union's own president headlined the American Federation of Teachers convention Friday, but it was a fiery speech from a North Carolina reverend that roused the crowd.

One of the country's most controversial education reform groups is pulling out of Minnesota.

Before getting involved in Upward Bound, Hereford High School senior Roldan Peregrino planned to become a diesel mechanic.

St. Bernard students made slight gains in subject tests in the school year that ended in May, and more high school students graduated within four years, according to data released Friday.

When her son Jack Gavron heads to college in the fall, Mindy Fox will get a library.

Montgomery County's longstanding student achievement gap will bring together county and school officials as they try to hammer out ways to shrink those differences between high schools that have low or high levels of student poverty.

FOUR well-known Canberra artists will work in ACT public schools helping pupils to expand their creative opportunities, it was announced today by Minister for the Arts and Education and Training Joy Burch.

Ohio is one of the many states in the U.S. that is scheduled to implement the controversial Common Core requirements next year.

The D.C. Council's Education Committee on Thursday unanimously supported special-education legislation intended to speed services to children and give parents more leverage in disputes.

VEHICLES, BUT THEY WILL HAVE TO RETURN THEM. SOME ARE SAYING THAT IT'S A LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE.

It is past time for Michigan's citizens and policymakers to acknowledge the crisis looming in the state's future: The state's public schools are failing to educate the next generation of Michiganders.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has scheduled a July 17 meeting with Education Superintendent John White to try to negotiate a compromise in their dispute over testing tied to the Common Core education standards, the governor's office announced Wednesday.

Many of us tend to align ourselves with either numbers or words. We're either math brains or we're reading brains.

It turns out that the human brain may not be as mysterious as it has always seemed to be.

A group of education advocates is calling on the District to release more information about students' performance on city tests, arguing that the limited data released in years past has overstated city schools' progress.