EDUCATION

When Tyra Batts, the only black student on a girls' high school basketball team in Kenmore East, N.Y. heard the chant 1-2-3-N****r, she couldn't believe it had been a team tradition for years. When Batts confronted her teammates about the racial slur, they shrugged it off as a joke. Now Batts has gone public, her team is suspended, and tensions are high.

Paterno slipped on Saturday, according to a report, and fractured his pelvis. He was admitted to the hospital the next day, a person close to the Paterno family told the Associated Press.

At Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, Virginia Tech officials and local law enforcement met with the press to disclose all the information they had on today's horrific shooting, including a timeline of the killings, whether the second victim may have been the shooter, and connections to the infamous 2007 massacre. Read live coverage of the conference here.

The Virginia Tech shooting suspect is still at large, and university officials are preparing a press conference to address the media as State Police search the campus and surrounding areas. Watch video footage of the immediate aftermath of two killings, and find out where to watch live coverage of the VA Tech shootings.

he op-ed came on the heels of a series of bombings in Mumbai that killed almost two dozen people in mid-July.

The Virginia Tech shootings, which have claimed two lives so far, comes the same week that families who lost loved ones in the 2007 massacre moved to prosecute the school for its slow response time to Seung-Hui Cho's shooting spree four and a half years ago. As State Police search for the shooter, rumors that the two cases are linked remain unsubstantiated.

Women are attending and obtaining degrees from U.S. colleges and universities at a pace exceeding that of men. On some co-ed campuses, the girls outnumber the boys by a ratio of almost three-to-one.

A study has found that approximately one-third of British children do not have their own books at home.

An upstate New York high school suspended an unspecified number of students last week following the police department's closure of the bullying-suicide case of gay teen Jamey Rodemeyer.

Sesame Street has made its way to Afghanistan. Television executives in the country are hoping that the show -- which enjoys popularity around the world -- will help educate its young population.

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.