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Schools around US increase security after massacre

Schools around the country are reviewing security plans, adding extra law enforcement patrols and readying counselors for the first day of classes since a

5 states to increase class time in some schools

Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer.

Video: Teacher replaces toys with boxes

A teacher in Ohio is using an unconventional method that he says is lighting kids' imaginations on fire.

Fla. students walk on water for class assignment

Students from Florida International University have been walking on water for a class assignment.

Ohio student punished for growing hair for charity

An Ohio teenager who's been growing his hair for a charity is being punished by his high school because administrators say his long locks violate the dress

High school students form 'sex' fantasy league

School administrators and parents are wrestling with how to respond to news that some male high school athletes created a statistics-based fantasy league that

Texas A&M evacuates campus after bomb threat

Texas A&M University ordered all students, faculty and staff to evacuate campus Friday after the school received a bomb threat.

High court questions Texas affirmative action plan

The Supreme Court is taking up a challenge to a University of Texas program that considers race in some college admissions. The case could produce new limits

A phone home: NY teens pay valets to store devices

Thousands of teenagers who can't take their cellphones to school have another option, courtesy of a burgeoning industry of sorts in always-enterprising New

Louisiana State evacuates following bomb threat

Thousands of students, professors and workers were evacuated from Louisiana State University's main campus Monday following a bomb threat, school officials

All-clears after bomb threats evacuate campuses

Tens of thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday after telephoned bomb threats prompted officials to warn

Photos: New school lunches put to the test

Students give mixed grades to the extra carrots and apples - and fewer fatty foods - mandated by new federal rules.

Prof. breastfeeds in class, students react

There is a new debate going on at American University in Washington, DC. Students are divided on whether it was appropriate for a professor to breastfeed her

Ex-prof pleads guilty to killing Ala. colleagues

An ex-professor pleaded guilty Tuesday to fatally shooting three colleagues and wounding three others at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, court

Chicago teacher strike poses test for unions

The unions are taking a major stand on teacher evaluations, one of the key issues in the Chicago dispute. If they lose there, it could have ripple effects

Dozens of teachers picket at Chicago school HQ

Dozens of teachers and union officials are picketing outside Chicago Public Schools' downtown headquarters.

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