EDUCATION

Nazca Lines, the most outstanding group of geoglyphs in the world are one of the mysteries to which man has still not found answer. Imprinted on the surface of the desert pampa sand are about 300 hundred figures made of straight lines, geometric shapes and pictures of animals and birds - and their patterns are only clearly visible from the air.

Researchers have discovered in the Middle East thousands of lines similar to the Nazca lines in Peru. The structures discovered in the desert are visible only from the air, and were never seen before. The discovery was made with the help of satellite-mapping technologies and an aerial photography program in Jordan.

Federal prosecutors on Friday charged a Staten Island couple who bled more than more than $2.5 million in government funds from a food program meant for financing nutritious meals for preschoolers.

The National Blue Ribbon School award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools based on students' academic excellence or for the schools' progress in closing achievement gaps, especially among disadvantaged and minority students

University of California tuition may increase by up to 16 percent each year for the next four years if the system doesn't get more state funding, according to a long-term budget plan released Wednesday.

The U.S. News and World Report's Rankings of the Best Colleges for 2011

Joshua Robb, 8, ran away from his school on Monday.

The latest top colleges list contains a lot of the usual suspects at the top -- schools with names most people would recognize; however, the broader field contained considerable ranking changes.

College-bound students and admissions officers, take note: U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings for 2012 on Tuesday, offering the latest snapshot of the higher-education hierarchy.

Academy of Natural Sciences discovers predatory fish fossil.

At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an open sewer caught fire and sent a wave of flame through a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, police said on Monday.

According to the study done by the researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine, the medical schools spend very less time teaching students about the health issues facing the LGBT community.

Kansas State University has gone green, releasing EcoKat, the first eco-friendly college mascot, highly criticized by students.

The effects of Hurricane Irene have not been as dire as expected, but the storm did wreak havoc on universities throughout the Northeast, many of which shut down part or all of their campuses or postponed student move-in dates.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said less importance given to computer science in the British education system is holding the country’s digital media economy.

Six schools in Louisa County will reopen the day after Labor Day.

The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) has filed a lawsuit on Friday against the new law that prohibits teachers from being Facebook friends with their students.

Nearly 300 students from Irene-Wakonda School District in southeastern South Dakota will no longer have Friday classes, as the schools here have adopted a four-day school week for reducing costs and dealing with state budget cuts to education.

A college degree is seen by the public as a credential women need more than men to make it big, despite a soaring price tag, a new Pew Research Center survey indicates.

Mandatory sex-education classes are returning to New York City public schools for the first time in nearly 20 years, New York City officials say.

One person died, and at least nine have fallen sick after consuming infected strawberries picked at a farm in northwestern Oregon.

Investigators comb woods, homes for clues in shooting that killed 7 people.

This week is the peak time for spectacular Perseid meteor showers, one of the northern hemisphere summer night sky's most spectacular attractions. But sadly, the spectacular even will have full moon for competition.

A professor at Chestnut Hill College dove over a second-floor railing inside a building on campus during his class, killing him, police say.

Cancer classes offered by American Cancer Society.

A piece of space shuttle Columbia, which was disintegrated on re-entry over the Texas state on February 1, 2003, has emerged as the Texas lake dried up because of drought.

Testimony from 122,000 college students yields the nation's best party schools

A report from the conservation organization WWF said that some 1,060 new species have been found on or near the island of New Guinea between 1998 and 2008.

A new poll result suggests that almost half of the America's population is dissatisfied by God's performance, if God exists.