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Obama gives education waivers to 10 states

President Barack Obama says his decision to free 10 states from the No Child Left Behind education law will give the flexibility they need to set high

Probation, not A for effort, for Pa. grade hacker

One Pennsylvania college student's attempt to boost his failing grades didn't get him an A for effort. It got him probation.

Ohio school bus, truck collide; 11 injured

A pickup truck lost control on an icy road and crashed head-on into a school bus Wednesday morning, sending eight children and three adults to a hospital with

Report: Teacher's aide sent love letters to boy

Officials at an elementary school rocked by teacher sex abuse claims are investigating yet another allegation of misconduct, this one involving a 50-year-old

New Obama plan to help math, science teacher prep

President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to

Charges filed against 2nd teacher from LA school

The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school's

Lots of junk food at elementary schools

Between 2006 and 2010, nearly half of public and private schools that were surveyed sold sweet or salty snack foods outside of lunch and breakfast.

California school closing for 2 days over teacher arrests

The superintendent of schools is meeting with worried parents and classes are canceled for two days at a Southern California elementary school where two

Chicago college offers class on Occupy movement

Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class. It's a three-credit political science course that looks at

Colleges obsess over national rankings

When US News & World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer

Official: 2nd teacher from LA school arrested

A second teacher pulled from a classroom at Miramonte Elementary School this week was arrested Friday, just days after a third-grade teacher was charged with

Deciphering the Super Bowl: XLVI is Greek to kids

Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year's Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek.

76 Vassar hopefuls wrongly told they were accepted

Dozens of applicants to Vassar College were mistakenly told they had gotten into the school when they checked a website that had been set up for students

Obama decries rising cost of college education

President Barack Obama called Friday for an overhaul of the higher education financial aid system, warning that colleges and universities that fail to control

NH school principal dives in river to rescue boy

An elementary school principal in New Hampshire jumped into a frozen river to save a 10-year-old student who fell through the ice.

Homeless NY science whiz isn't finalist in contest

A New York high school student who attracted national attention after it was reported that she was living in a homeless shelter is not among the 40 finalists

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