EDUCATION

Robert Pimentel has been charged with eight counts of continuous sexual abuse and seven counts of lewd acts.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is in search of a pet grizzly cub that escaped from its home.

The Louisiana Science Education Act specifically names evolution among the topics singled out for supplemental critiques, along with global warming and cloning.

The finback whale that beached itself in Queens on Wednesday is not expected to survive.

A Los Angeles jury awarded a California boy $6.9 million in damages stemming from a sexual abuse case.

The Confederate flag was once part of the tradition at Hays High School in Buda, Texas. That tradition will be no more after the Hays School District voted to ban the Civil War imagery from school property in a 5-2 vote on Monday.

Canadian parents are upset that the Amanda Todd anti-bullying video is being shown in classrooms.

Students from the East Asian and certain European countries outdo those from the other parts of the world in mathematics, science and reading comprehension, according to a set of global studies.

This article will help you get acquainted with Founders Day, which celebrates an important milestone in black history.

A sizable school grant is expected to be awarded to a group of student atheists, reflecting a shift in cultural attitudes toward nonbelievers.

The United States was ranked 17th in an assessment of the education systems of 50 countries.

About 58,000 of New York City's 1.1 million students did not go back to school on Monday, either because their schools were too damaged to be used, or in some cases, because they've been playing host to storm evacuees.

Yoselyn Ortega, the NYC nanny charged with murdering two children in her care, told police she resented her employers.

An unofficial ritual turned into a brawl at the Air Force Academy. The brawl occurred on October 25 and left 27 cadets injured.

Halloween and hurricanes are a frightening combination, and it appears the Frankenstorm might just wash away everyone’s trick-or-treating in the U.S. Northeast.

China has been rocked by two separate teacher abuse incidents. In one case, a teacher was caught on camera abusing her kindergarten students over a ten-minute time span, the second case involved a teacher posting photos online of her abusing her students, including one photo where she is pulling a student by his ears off the ground.

Brian Jones, a former Florida A&M University band member charged with the hazing death of band member Robert Champion was sentenced to two years of probation and six months of community control on Monday.

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.