EDUCATION

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.

The chairman of the Delhi Charter School claims school officials did not realize it was illegal to force pregnancy tests on female students.

The school's official policy, which has been in place for years, requires female students suspected of being pregnant to submit to a pregnancy test.

This time it is a 9-year-old boy, who is on a mission to save his city and wants to contribute to its betterment. Joshua Smith went all out on a hot summer Monday and sat outside his house with an aim to raise $1,000 which would go towards the benefit of Detroit, which continues to suffer from economically difficult times. Way beyond his anticipated goal, he raised over $3,000 selling lemonade.

The Milton Hershey School has decided to allow an HIV-positive student to attend, after the Pennsylvania school initially rejected the teen’s application because of his illness.

If we could just educate the next generation on how to eliminate poverty or war, we could then use that savings from our federal budget to fund more education for the following generations.

Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the University of Southern California have teamed up to develop a think tank in order to find bipartisan solutions to environmental problems, economic policies, political reform and other issues that affect the general public, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Forbes gave Princeton University the highest grade for its 2012 list of America?s Top Colleges, the magazine?s annual ranking of the nation?s higher education institutions. The list, featured in the Aug. 20, 2012 issue, is compiled for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP).

University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan's resignation and subsequent reinstatement are being used as material for a UVA course this fall that will tackle the brief but turbulent period in the school's history.

The NCAA said Sunday it will hold a news conference Monday morning to announce what were described as “corrective and punitive measures” against Penn State.

Penn State University removed the statue of late Coach Joe Paterno outside the Beaver Satdium Sunday, after president Rodney Erickson said it has become a source of division and an obstacle to healing in the school and elsewhere.

When The Princeton Review releases its annual list of America's best party schools, Pennsylvania State University is usually on it. The same university administrators who facilitated a sexual predator were at the helm when Penn State was named the No. 1 party school in 2009, No. 3 in 2010, and No. 7 in 2011.

Penn State University's board of trustees has accepted the resignation of Steven Garban, the man who chaired the board when the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal broke.

Penn State Board of Trustees Chairman Karen Peetz, responding to a damning report on the Jerry Sandusky scandal, said Thursday the board accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred.

Ammons was recently given a vote of no confidence by the school's board of trustees and has been criticized for mishandling the school's anti-hazing policies.

Some members of a Miami school board said Michelle Obama, who is looking to recruit volunteers Tuesday, isn't supposed to use a school for political gain.

Although Florida's school prayer bill -- technically known as an inspiration message law -- technically went into effect on Sunday, state officials say only one school district has even considered implementing the law.

The Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal evidently has not hurt Penn State's fundraising as the school said alumni helped raise more than $208 million this year -- the second-highest amount ever.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill offering relief to millions of American college students. The measure will keep the interest rate for subsidized federal loans at 3.4 percent. The law will benefit about 7.4 million college students.

Our teachers need your help, especially when this economy is so uncertain.

The NEA is losing revenue and could lose hundreds of thousands of full-time teachers by 2014. Some believe this could affect its political influence.

Some of the students who bullied bus monitor Karen Huff Klein have apologized to her, but they will still face punishment as soon as next week. In the meantime, a fund for the woman has raised half a million dollars

Students who bullied Greece, NY, bus monitor Karen Klein earlier this week are under investigation by the school district and the police.

If the University of Virginia's faculty senate had its way, Rector Helen Dragas would resign and ousted President Teresa Sullivan of would be reinstate.

Ten private U.S. colleges and state university systems announced plans on Tuesday to be more upfront about the costs of higher education, including detailing the monthly loan payments students would face after graduation.

Wearing the black face-covering veil favoured by Saudi women, Maha Mazyad looked through leaflets for prospective jobs with some of the Islamic kingdom's largest companies at a recent career fair in Riyadh.

Democratic candidates backed by wealthy advocates for charter schools squeaked past rivals backed by teachers unions in two California state assembly primary races on Tuesday, highlighting a bitter split in the Democratic Party over education policy.

The title of youngest doctor is about to go to Sho Yano, as the 21-year-old will earn his medical degree this week from the Illinois school.

Students at Dalian University of Technology in China are under fire - literally -- with school officials after a graduation photo of a group throwing their hats up in the air with a building burning as the backdrop went viral online. The graduates are seen in the photo unfazed by the dormitory which appears to be engulfed in a plume of smoke in the background while wearing their gowns and throwing their caps in the air.