Junior members of Congress subscribing to either the far-left or far-right usually spoke with the least complexity, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
New York?s suburban and upstate voters Tuesday are determining the future of their property tax rates and could also weigh on the standing of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
To contrast President Obama's commencement speech at Barnard College, Fox & Friends offered its own speaker on Tuesday morning.
Want a degree from Columbia University, but can't afford the absurd tuition? Do you own a mop, are not disgusted by with cleaning toilets and can spare a dozen years of your life? Gac Filipaj, a 52-year-old refugee from the former Yugoslavia, spent the last 12 years working as a janitor at Columbia while also taking classes at the Ivy League school -- and didn't pay a penny in tuition. He graduated on Sunday with honors from the university.
Senate Republicans sustained a filibuster of a Democratic bill to keep some student loan rates from doubling to 6.8 percent in July.
A high school principal has resigned after stories surfaced claiming that she created a fake Facebook account to keep an eye on her students.
Today begins Teacher Appreciation Week 2012, and that means honoring your teachers with a special gift or some other token of appreciation.
Jeremy Lin couldn't speak to Stuyvesant High School's senior class, but the injured New York Knicks point guard did the second best thing: make a YouTube video with words of wisdom for the graduates.
Members of the military have reportedly been targeted by for-profit college recruiters, due to federal educational benefits they receive via the Post-9/11 G.I. bill.
April 27 marks not one but two highlights of the school year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge: the last day students can drop out of classes without having them appear on college transcripts, and the yearly Piano Drop. Watch it here.
The student loan debate continues in Washington as the House plans to vote on a bill Friday that would keep interest rates at 3.4 percent for subsidized Stafford loans, instead of increasing to 6.8 percent on July 1.
An elementary school teacher at a Prince Rupert, British Columbia school has been banned by school administrators from displaying a certain quote from Dr. Seuss' children's story Yertle the Turtle. The teacher, who has not been named, was told that she would be disciplined for exhibiting the quote I know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we too should have rights, on her clothing and on her vehicle on school property.
President Obama, relating his and the First Lady's experiences with student loans, told a crowd of college students that he's been in their shoes.
Matt Weaver, a college junior running for president of the student government at California State San Marcos, is being investigated by the FBI for election fraud, as they suspect he hacked 700 voters' passwords and IDs to change the electronic polling results.
Stacie Halas, a Southern California teacher, who was fired Wednesday night for acting in a pornographic film, will now fight against the school board's decision seeking her dismissal, her attorney said.
The intense smell of pot that usually blankets a popular quad at the University of Colorado-Boulder on April 20 was replaced by the smell of fish-based fertilizer Friday morning.
Sometimes anything is possible. A seven-year-old girl born without hands has won a penmanship award and a $1,000 prize for being able to write by manipulating a pencil between her forearms, the Associated Press reported.
A California school district has fired science teacher Stacie Halas for performing in a pornographic film under the pseudonym Tiffany Six.
What could Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein have in common with a four-year-old? They all pretty much share the same IQ. Heidi Hankins, a four-year-old from the U.K. has a 159 IQ. The 159 IQ is only one point below Einstein and physicist Stephen Hawking.
Violence, acid attacks and now poisoning. Extremists will try anything to keep girls from seeking an education in Afghanistan.
As India takes small steps toward overhauling its lumbering higher-education system, U.S. colleges and universities want a part of the action. Now a new chapter is being written and the authors are the Obama and Singh administrations.
A 9-year-old Washington boy, who accidently shot his 8-year-old classmate in an Armin Jahr Elementary school, wrote an apology to her as she left hospital Tuesday.
Former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader Sarah Jones Monday pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a 16-year-old boy and tampering with the physical evidence in the case.
Oikos University was shocked by an on-campus shooting Monday morning. Here are 5 things you need to know about the Christian school.
Emergency Medical Services workers are investigating a drunk driving simulation where a Texas paramedic poured human blood onto a high school student’s leg. The incident occurred at a March 9 program called Shattered Dreams at Vandegrift High School in Austin Texas.
Students planning to enroll in California state colleges and universities may be asked to declare their sexual orientation from next year on application or enrollment forms, in an effort to gauge the size of the LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender) population.
As prom night is nearing, teenage girls are in for an unpleasant surprise as high schools across the U.S. are now enforcing a prom dress code for their students.
There's an alarming trend in America’s public schools, and it involves indoctrinating our children, rather than educating them -- one force-fed, left-wing ideological lesson plan at a time.
In an effort to crack down on cheating during the SAT and ACT college entrance exams, The College Board announced on Tuesday that all students taking those tests will soon be required to provide their photo IDs on their applications.
A New Jersey middle school banned its sixth through eighth grade students from hugging due to inappropriate behavior.
