EDUCATION

Stacie Halas, a Southern California teacher, who was fired Wednesday night for acting in a pornographic film, will now fight against the school board's decision seeking her dismissal, her attorney said.

The intense smell of pot that usually blankets a popular quad at the University of Colorado-Boulder on April 20 was replaced by the smell of fish-based fertilizer Friday morning.

Sometimes anything is possible. A seven-year-old girl born without hands has won a penmanship award and a $1,000 prize for being able to write by manipulating a pencil between her forearms, the Associated Press reported.

A California school district has fired science teacher Stacie Halas for performing in a pornographic film under the pseudonym Tiffany Six.

What could Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein have in common with a four-year-old? They all pretty much share the same IQ. Heidi Hankins, a four-year-old from the U.K. has a 159 IQ. The 159 IQ is only one point below Einstein and physicist Stephen Hawking.

Violence, acid attacks and now poisoning. Extremists will try anything to keep girls from seeking an education in Afghanistan.

As India takes small steps toward overhauling its lumbering higher-education system, U.S. colleges and universities want a part of the action. Now a new chapter is being written and the authors are the Obama and Singh administrations.

A 9-year-old Washington boy, who accidently shot his 8-year-old classmate in an Armin Jahr Elementary school, wrote an apology to her as she left hospital Tuesday.

Former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones Monday pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy and tampering with the physical evidence in the case.

Oikos University was shocked by an on-campus shooting Monday morning. Here are 5 things you need to know about the Christian school.

Emergency Medical Services workers are investigating a drunk driving simulation where a Texas paramedic poured human blood onto a high school student’s leg. The incident occurred at a March 9 program called Shattered Dreams at Vandegrift High School in Austin Texas.

Students planning to enroll in California state colleges and universities may be asked to declare their sexual orientation from next year on application or enrollment forms, in an effort to gauge the size of the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender) population.

As prom night is nearing, teenage girls are in for an unpleasant surprise as high schools across the U.S. are now enforcing a prom dress code for their students.

There's an alarming trend in America’s public schools, and it involves indoctrinating our children, rather than educating them -- one force-fed, left-wing ideological lesson plan at a time.

In an effort to crack down on cheating during the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, The College Board announced on Tuesday that all students taking those tests will soon be required to provide their photo IDs on their applications.

A New Jersey middle school banned its sixth through eighth grade students from hugging due to inappropriate behavior.

Yet another New York City teacher was arrested for sexually abusing a student, as cases of similar standing continue to mount. The Brooklyn gym teacher could easily be the 15th city Education Department employee to be convicted of criminal charges this year, according to NY Daily News.

Are you a confused parent who is struggling to admit your child in a pre-Kindergarten program? If yes, just log on to Manhattan's leading neighborhood news source DNAinfo.com, to get a proper guidance and help.

Schools will be able to opt out of serving pink slime in school lunches starting in the fall, according to the USDA.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan will open the London Asian Film Festival 2012 along with British comedian and writer Meera Sayal. The nine-day festival, hosted by Tongues on Fire, will be held in multiple venues in London from March 16 to 24.

Taylor Swift topped all music acts with earnings over $35 million, according to Billboard's Top 40 Money Makers list.

Stacie Halas, a science teacher at Richard B Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard, was reportedly identified as porn star Tiffany Six by her students.

With the popularity of flesh-eating zombies rising, a school in Michigan has decided to take advantage of the peaked interest in students. Michigan State University is offering a social work class called Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse: Catastrophes & Human Behavior.

The number of black and Latino students admitted to one of New York City's elite high schools has increased by 14 percent since last year, according to recent statistics released by the Department of Education. Admittance to these specialized schools including institutions such as Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the Bronx High School of Science and the High School of American Studies at Lehman College, is based on the results of a single standardized test distributed amongst prospective ...

Thousands of students marched in cities across Spain on Wednesday to protest the latest government austerity measures.

The teenager, who is believed to be behind a shooting Monday in a cafeteria of Chardon High School, Ohio, that killed one student and injured four others rarely spoke about his tumultuous family life.

The family of T.J. Lane, the teen suspected of opening fire in the cafeteria of a suburban Cleveland high school, killing one student and wounding four others in the Ohio shootings, has sent their condolences to the family of Daniel Parmertor, the slain student.

The death of Joanna Ramos, the young girl who died on Friday hours following an after-school fight, has been ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. Coroner's Lt. Fred Corral on Monday told The Associated Press that the girl, who was reportedly 10 or 11 years old, died of blunt force trauma.

President Barack Obama reiterated that his support for post-high school education goes beyond four-year college degree programs.