EDUCATION

Penn State University removed the statue of late Coach Joe Paterno outside the Beaver Satdium Sunday, after president Rodney Erickson said it has become a source of division and an obstacle to healing in the school and elsewhere.

When The Princeton Review releases its annual list of America's best party schools, Pennsylvania State University is usually on it. The same university administrators who facilitated a sexual predator were at the helm when Penn State was named the No. 1 party school in 2009, No. 3 in 2010, and No. 7 in 2011.

Penn State University's board of trustees has accepted the resignation of Steven Garban, the man who chaired the board when the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal broke.

Penn State Board of Trustees Chairman Karen Peetz, responding to a damning report on the Jerry Sandusky scandal, said Thursday the board accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred.

Ammons was recently given a vote of no confidence by the school's board of trustees and has been criticized for mishandling the school's anti-hazing policies.

Some members of a Miami school board said Michelle Obama, who is looking to recruit volunteers Tuesday, isn't supposed to use a school for political gain.

Although Florida's school prayer bill -- technically known as an inspiration message law -- technically went into effect on Sunday, state officials say only one school district has even considered implementing the law.

The Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal evidently has not hurt Penn State's fundraising as the school said alumni helped raise more than $208 million this year -- the second-highest amount ever.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill offering relief to millions of American college students. The measure will keep the interest rate for subsidized federal loans at 3.4 percent. The law will benefit about 7.4 million college students.

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The NEA is losing revenue and could lose hundreds of thousands of full-time teachers by 2014. Some believe this could affect its political influence.

Some of the students who bullied bus monitor Karen Huff Klein have apologized to her, but they will still face punishment as soon as next week. In the meantime, a fund for the woman has raised half a million dollars

Students who bullied Greece, NY, bus monitor Karen Klein earlier this week are under investigation by the school district and the police.

If the University of Virginia's faculty senate had its way, Rector Helen Dragas would resign and ousted President Teresa Sullivan of would be reinstate.

Ten private U.S. colleges and state university systems announced plans on Tuesday to be more upfront about the costs of higher education, including detailing the monthly loan payments students would face after graduation.

Wearing the black face-covering veil favoured by Saudi women, Maha Mazyad looked through leaflets for prospective jobs with some of the Islamic kingdom's largest companies at a recent career fair in Riyadh.

Democratic candidates backed by wealthy advocates for charter schools squeaked past rivals backed by teachers unions in two California state assembly primary races on Tuesday, highlighting a bitter split in the Democratic Party over education policy.

The title of youngest doctor is about to go to Sho Yano, as the 21-year-old will earn his medical degree this week from the Illinois school.

Students at Dalian University of Technology in China are under fire - literally -- with school officials after a graduation photo of a group throwing their hats up in the air with a building burning as the backdrop went viral online. The graduates are seen in the photo unfazed by the dormitory which appears to be engulfed in a plume of smoke in the background while wearing their gowns and throwing their caps in the air.

Cassandra Garcia, an eight-year-old student in Arizona, was humiliated when her teacher gave her an award in front of the whole class. But why would a third grader become so upset over an award? According to Garcia's mother, Christina Valdez, the award her daughter received was the Catastrophe Award for having the most homework excuses.

The 22-year-old promising student journalist died Saturday in car crash in Massachusetts just days after graduating from Yale

The education reform agenda Mitt Romney unveiled during a Wednesday speech to the Latino Forum in many ways appears similar to the Obama administration's agenda, but there are a few key differences.

Ted Kaczynski, Harvard class of 1962, can't make the 50th reunion -- he's in federal prison for life, as the Unabomber. But he still managed to submit an entry for the alumni report.

President Barack Obama returned to Joplin, Missouri one year after it was ravaged by a deadly tornado, emphasizing the importance of community in the face of adversity at the city's high school commencement Monday evening.

Junior members of Congress subscribing to either the far-left or far-right usually spoke with the least complexity, according to the Sunlight Foundation.

New York?s suburban and upstate voters Tuesday are determining the future of their property tax rates and could also weigh on the standing of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

To contrast President Obama's commencement speech at Barnard College, Fox & Friends offered its own speaker on Tuesday morning.

Want a degree from Columbia University, but can't afford the absurd tuition? Do you own a mop, are not disgusted by with cleaning toilets and can spare a dozen years of your life? Gac Filipaj, a 52-year-old refugee from the former Yugoslavia, spent the last 12 years working as a janitor at Columbia while also taking classes at the Ivy League school -- and didn't pay a penny in tuition. He graduated on Sunday with honors from the university.

Senate Republicans sustained a filibuster of a Democratic bill to keep some student loan rates from doubling to 6.8 percent in July.