EDUCATION

The prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) begins registration for its first free online course today. The school, which announced its online initiative MITx back in December, will allow students to take the electronics course, 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics at www.mix.mit.edu.

Kohl's Department Stores has introduced Kohl's Cares Scholarship Program which will award more than $420,000 in scholarships and prizes, ranging from $50 Kohl's gift cards to $10,000 scholarships, to more than 2,200 young volunteers who have made a positive impact on their communities.

Michelle Obama spiced things up in Dallas Friday as she judged a cooking competition with “Top Chef’s” host Tom Colicchio and White House chef Sam Kass.

President Barack Obama announced Thursday that 10 states have been exempted from certain requirements of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, allowing them the freedom to determine their own methods for raising education standards.

A teacher's aide at Miramonte Elementary has been accused of sending love letters to an 11-year-old boy. The woman, who has been identified as Areceli Luisjuan has sent at least three letters to the then-fourth-grader in 2009. One such letter read when you get close to me, even if you give me the chills I like that. Don't tell anybody about this! The letters were signed from Sad Girl but the mother of the student immediately discovered who the letters were truly from.

Stanford University researchers might have come up with the idea of making a electric car highway, in which magnetic fields could transmit electrical currents on highways, charging cars while they drive.

Martin Springer, 49, was hauled yesterday from his Los Angeles classroom and arrested on suspicion of fondling two girls over a three-year period.The latest incident follows the arrest of Mark Berndt, 61, a veteran third-grade instructor who was arrested on Monday and charged with 23 counts of lewd acts on children. He remained jailed on $23 million bail, officials said.

Susan G. Komen said Friday they wouldn't be cutting funds to Planned Parenthood after all, but supporters of the women's health organization are still giving generous donations.

Claremont McKenna College, a prestigious liberal arts school in California, has admitted inflating the SAT exam scores of students in order to boost its standing in national school rankings.

Almost every year, colleges accidentally send acceptance letters to students who never really got in. Apologies are usually immediate, but the emotional damage is already done.

Singer Nancy Sinatra may have had boots made for walking, but she never attended Pottstown Middle School.

A free college education is unheard of these days but Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, is giving $106,000 worth of education to its students for free. Here's how to get the free liberal arts education.

President Obama revealed a new college affordability plan Friday that would increase federal grant money available in low-interest loans.

Homeland actress Claire Danes received a very high honor on Thursday: She was awarded Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year title in a wacky ceremony with all the pomp and hilarity you'd expect.

Two Hampden-Sydney College students are suffering from serious burns, after a fire blazed through a campus residence early Wednesday morning.

Are Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney the same? Vice President Joe Biden thinks so, and a side-by-side comparison of their positions shows more similarities than differences.

Normally, signs warn drivers to slow down for SCHOOL X-ING. But on one street on the Lower East Side, they are warned about SHCOOL X-ING. The embarrassing typo has gone unfixed since last summer.

Salman Rushdie will not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival after authorities warned the controversial author he was a potential target of assassins at the event, following threats of protests from Muslim groups at his planned appearance.

A stampede of students desperate for college admission in South Africa has led to the killing of one woman and the injury of several others when the University of Johannesburg opened its gate on Tuesday. The students who were involved in the stamped were all hoping they could secure one of fewer than 1,000 last-minute seats available for the incoming class.

One woman was killed on Tuesday when prospective students waiting outside the University of Johannesburg in South Africa stampeded to get into the school's admissions office.

Sydney Spice’s Racy Photo Included in School’s Yearbook: Parents, Students Unhappy

Colorado-based Durango High School has now agreed to include the revealing photo of a high school senior in the yearbook after initially refusing to do so.

In New Hampshire public schools, parents can now request an alternative curriculum for any lesson plan they object to, a move that critics believe undermines educators and disrupts classrooms.

An independent college in Scotland, sponsored by the Dubai royal family and whose stated aim is to promote multiculturalism, has sacked its Principal - Professor Malory Nye, 47. They have alleged discriminatory practices on grounds of racial and religious bias as the reason for their dismissal.

James Marshall Reilly, author of the newly published Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a Life, does a Q-and-A with the International Business Times.

Lauren Weinberg, the Arizona University student who was stranded for nine days in her car under a heavy snow coat, was released from the hospital on Thursday.

Several of the states that are applying for relief from provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law have submitted proposals that lack detail and evidence that they will produce substantive reform, according to a new report.port.

More Americans are ending up never getting married -- in 2010, 72 percent of U.S. adults had been wed at least once, down from 85 percent in 1960.

When Tyra Batts, the only black student on a girls' high school basketball team in Kenmore East, N.Y. heard the chant 1-2-3-N****r, she couldn't believe it had been a team tradition for years. When Batts confronted her teammates about the racial slur, they shrugged it off as a joke. Now Batts has gone public, her team is suspended, and tensions are high.