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IOWA CITY, Iowa – Under pressure to cut costs, state universities and lawmakers across the nation are going after one of the oldest traditions in the academic world: the professor’s cherished...

ATLANTA – The number of so-called “dropout factory” high schools in the United States has declined since 2002, translating into at least 100,000 more students getting a diploma, a new report...

LONDON – Hundreds of British students angry about planned tuition increases clashed Tuesday with riot police on the snowy streets of London as part of nationwide protests against the measure. No...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – When his professors drone, Dan Kautz whips out his phone.Kautz, a senior at Wilkes University, might send a text message to someone across the room – “I can’t wait to get out of...

SEATTLE – Every year, American schools pay more than $8.6 billion in bonuses to teachers with master’s degrees, even though the idea that a higher degree makes a teacher more effective has been...

NEW YORK – The new chancellor of the nation’s largest public school system attended Catholic schools as a child, sent her children to a private boarding school and lists her service on a...

Fort Lewis College students are the first undergraduates in the state to have the opportunity to major in public health. Professors say the major provides students a new way to contribute to the...

LOS ANGELES – Four years ago, Francis Parkman Middle School was spiraling downward with plummeting enrollment, abysmal test scores and notoriety for unruliness. Then teachers stepped out of the...