EDUCATION

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.

To win the Nobel Prize takes scientists years longer than a century ago.

Many students surveyed justify cheating by saying that everyone cheats, survey finds.

Idaho became on Thursday the first U.S. state to require two online courses for high school graduation when state officials approved the requirement.

The 2011 federal exam shows U.S. students still lag behind other countries in math scores despite improvements, while reading scores have dropped. Education Secretary Duncan places blame for low literacy on No Child Left Behind, which encourages test inflation and has failed to close the achievement gap between white and minority students in America.

Ranking magazine takes MCATs and grade point averages into account too heavily, medical school deans fear.

Michael Ellsberg IB Times interview.

Stacy Schuler, an ex-Ohio school teacher, on Thursday was convicted of having sex with five students and sentenced to four years in prison. Schuler, 33, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, was convicted of sexual battery, after an Ohio judge rejected her insanity defense in which it was also argued that the teenage boys took advantage of her.

Two high school students were in custody on Tuesday as suspects in the previous day's shooting of a 15-year-old classmate at Cape Fear High School in North Carolina.

Thousands of Americans gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to dedicate a memorial to the nation's foremost civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The ceremony was postponed from a date in August, due to Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene.

Study shows trends in sexual activity in teenagers.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed the second half of the two-part California Dream Act on Saturday, which will make undocumented immigrant students in California eligible for state-funded financial aid for college.

New Muppet friend coming to Sesame Street to teach about hunger.

Study suggests that students who discuss their drinking habits on Facebook may have problems.

America has on its priority list to build its students' skills in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math, also known as STEM. But which schools are actually mastering teaching in these areas? The U.S. News & World Report for the first time released a list ranking math- and science-specific high schools.

University of Michigan to invest more than $70 million in sustainability initiatives.

Seven New York teenagers were arrested for participating in a cheating scheme that allegedly paid a college student thousands of dollars to impersonate as high school students and take the SAT for them.

The USDA has recalled 40,000 pounds of ground beef meant for school lunches in Georgia due to possible E. coli contamination.

Kolajo Afolabi, the Harvard graduate student who went missing on Wednesday, was found dead after suffering a fatal head injury during a morning run.

Study shows that teenagers who have frequent dinners with family less likely to do drugs.

Study shows that exercise may help teenagers quit smoking.

Nazca Lines, the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world are one of the mysteries to which man has still not found answer. Imprinted on the surface of the desert pampa sand are about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from the air.