In a new wave of global outsourcing, personal chores are moving offshore, and this is leading to some daunting challenges, both economic and cultural.
Some administrators are pushing back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
School systems that say they cannot afford to privately educate disabled children are clashing with parents.
The Supreme Court is likely to take up the issue again soon, with nationwide implications.
Prompted by school shootings across the country, a growing number of elementary schools have been trying to paint a friendlier face on America's day for celebrating mischief.
Some teachers in France have been angered by what they say is presidential interference in the classroom in reaction to a plan to commemorate an anti-Nazi hero.
A school committee's vote to provide prescription contraceptives at its clinic is drawing fervent support and ardent opposition in Portland.
The nation's schools have made "considerable improvements" in nutrition, fitness and health over the last six years, according to a new government survey.
School officials around the country have been scrambling this week after several cases of staph infection, some of which have led to the death of students.
The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents.
Rider education courses designed by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation emphasize the mental commitment that counterbalances the physical act of riding a motorcycle.
Some states are being overwhelmed by growing numbers of schools that cannot satisfy the No Child Left Behind law's demands.
The state is making thousands of fifth- and sixth-graders retake a part of its standardized writing test because a newspaper article revealed the topics of two questions.
President Bush tried Tuesday to prod Congress into reauthorizing his biggest domestic achievement, the 2001 No Child Left Behind education law.
It's time to rein in the test zealots who have gotten such a stranglehold on the public schools in the U.S.
For those who attempt it, the doctoral dissertation can loom on the horizon like Everest, gleaming invitingly as a challenge but often turning into a masochistic exercise once the ascent is begun.
The U.S. needs a wholesale transformation of the public school system from the broken-down postwar model of the past 50 or 60 years.
In an era when software matters more than steel, Olin College wants to produce technologists with soul.
Colleges want diversity. Students want diversity. There's just this little problem with the law.
Two new research papers offer evidence that there is a growing happiness gap between men and women.
John Edwards laid out a proposal to overhaul the education system on Friday, saying that poor children attend schools that are "separate and unequal."
The drive by a revitalized Russian Orthodox Church to weave its tenets into the education system has prompted a backlash.
The door remains closed to Nalini Ghuman, an assistant professor who is British and who had lived and worked in this country for 10 years before her exclusion last August.