EDUCATION

Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest known survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, died in Poland on Sunday. He was 108.

The bomb threat shuttered Texas State University for nearly two hours as a bomb squad from Austin was dispatched to the college.

Harvard, in association with MIT and Cal Berkeley, is launching the edX program--a free online program that aims to improve access to high-quality education and revolutionize the way the world learns.

LSU officials sent out another round of text messages Monday afternoon urging students and staff to stay away from the campus, until further notice.

The Chicago Public Schools will be closed both Monday and Tuesday, as the majority of the 800 members of the Chicago Teachers Union's House of Delegates who gathered Sunday voted to continue the CTU's first strike in 25 years.

A professor at American University has found herself in the middle of a controversy after she decided to breast-feed her child while teaching her class. Adrienne Pine, who teaches “Sex, Gender, and Culture” at the Washington D.C. school, is being criticized for breast-feeding her baby in front of 40 students.

The Chicago teacher strike that has led to about 400,000 children being left out of schools is likely to continue for the second day, Tuesday, as the striking Chicago Teachers Union and the school district officials failed to reach an agreement till late night Monday.

The twin towers of New York's World Trade Center destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001 were designed by Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki. Just before he started work on it, he designed Robertson Hall, home of the Woodrow Wilson School, on the Princeton University campus. which has an uncanny resemblance to its former associates.

Film and TV actor, director, scholar, novelist, Galaxy Note spokesman and lip-syncher James Franco may be adding defendant to his ever-expanding repertoire.

The Iranian regime has good reason to restrict young people's access to education, regardless of gender.

Number of top grades falls, even though general pass rate rises for 30th year in a row.

Brazilian lawmakers have approved a bill that reserves half of the spots in the country's prestigious federal universities for racial minority graduates of the public school system in a bid to provide them with equitable access to the higher education.

The chairman of the Delhi Charter School claims school officials did not realize it was illegal to force pregnancy tests on female students.

The school's official policy, which has been in place for years, requires female students suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy test.

This time it is a 9-year-old boy, who is on a mission to save his city and wants to contribute to its betterment. Joshua Smith went all out on a hot summer Monday and sat outside his house with an aim to raise $1,000 which would go towards the benefit of Detroit, which continues to suffer from economically difficult times. Way beyond his anticipated goal, he raised over $3,000 selling lemonade.

The Milton Hershey School has decided to allow an HIV-positive student to attend, after the Pennsylvania school initially rejected the teen’s application because of his illness.

If we could just educate the next generation on how to eliminate poverty or war, we could then use that savings from our federal budget to fund more education for the following generations.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the University of Southern California have teamed up to develop a think tank in order to find bipartisan solutions to environmental problems, economic policies, political reform and other issues that affect the general public, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Forbes gave Princeton University the highest grade for its 2012 list of America?s Top Colleges, the magazine?s annual ranking of the nation?s higher education institutions. The list, featured in the Aug. 20, 2012 issue, is compiled for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP).

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan's resignation and subsequent reinstatement are being used as material for a UVA course this fall that will tackle the brief but turbulent period in the school's history.

The NCAA said Sunday it will hold a news conference Monday morning to announce what were described as “corrective and punitive measures” against Penn State.

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.