EDUCATION

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.

Paterno slipped on Saturday, according to a report, and fractured his pelvis. He was admitted to the hospital the next day, a person close to the Paterno family told the Associated Press.

At Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, Virginia Tech officials and local law enforcement met with the press to disclose all the information they had on today's horrific shooting, including a timeline of the killings, whether the second victim may have been the shooter, and connections to the infamous 2007 massacre. Read live coverage of the conference here.

The Virginia Tech shooting suspect is still at large, and university officials are preparing a press conference to address the media as State Police search the campus and surrounding areas. Watch video footage of the immediate aftermath of two killings, and find out where to watch live coverage of the VA Tech shootings.

he op-ed came on the heels of a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed almost two dozen people in mid-July.

The Virginia Tech shootings, which have claimed two lives so far, comes the same week that families who lost loved ones in the 2007 massacre moved to prosecute the school for its slow response time to Seung-Hui Cho's shooting spree four and a half years ago. As State Police search for the shooter, rumors that the two cases are linked remain unsubstantiated.

Women are attending and obtaining degrees from U.S. colleges and universities at a pace exceeding that of men. On some co-ed campuses, the girls outnumber the boys by a ratio of almost three-to-one.

A study has found that approximately one-third of British children do not have their own books at home.

An upstate New York high school suspended an unspecified number of students last week following the police department's closure of the bullying-suicide case of gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer.

Sesame Street has made its way to Afghanistan. Television executives in the country are hoping that the show -- which enjoys popularity around the world -- will help educate its young population.

To the staff and parents of Mystic Valley Charter School, Kevin Hogan is the chairman of the school English department and crew team coach. Never did they think he would have moonlighted under the porn name Hytch Cawke.

The death of a Florida A&M marching band drum major last week is leading to possible legal actions coming from multiple sides.

The high school senior has sparked a debate on the limits of First Amendment free speech in public schools, when a joking Twitter post landed her in the principal's office, pressured to write a dictated apology to Gov. Brownback. Sullivan's right to tweet has been backed by news sites, but as social media blurs the line between public and private, the Kansas school district may stick by its decision.

Florida A&M's famous marching band has been suspended following the death of Drum Major Robert Champion. A probe is being conducted to see if hazing had anything to do with Champion's death last weekend.

Twenty current and former students in Long Island have been implicated for cheating on college entrance examinations.

Until the Lincoln Unified School District finishes investigating claims that Heidi Kaeslin's been making money on the side by working on pornographic Web sites with a retired police officer using one of its laptops, the 35-year-old California teacher will be on paid leave, The Record reported Wednesday.

The alleged UC Berkeley gunman who was shot and killed by campus police after brandishing a loaded gun on campus was student at the school.

Former porn star Sasha Grey wants to continue her involvement with Read Across America.