Education News

Most French cities have elected to postpone until 2014 a new government plan for an extra half-day of elementary school, the Education Ministry confirmed Friday.

Activists trying to halt the planned closure of 15 D.C. public schools filed a lawsuit Friday in D.C. Superior Court, arguing that the closures disproportionately affect poor, minority and disabled students.

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Mr. Nabrit was a longtime lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund who argued for school integration at the Supreme Court.

A third-grade teacher’s 2010 choice to aid a state investigator helped lead to the indictment Friday of a former superintendent and 34 others in a vast alleged cheating scheme.

A multimillion-dollar budget crunch in Fairfax County schools next year might force an unsustainable workload on the mental-health clinicians who help students cope with stress, anxiety and emotional crises, administrators said.

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Famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson is scheduled to make the commencement speech at Johns Hopkins Medical School in May but he suggested on Friday that he would withdraw if students don't want him to because of recent remarks he made slamming same-sex marriage.

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The outspoken Michelle Rhee appears to be uncomfortable talking about where her children go to school in Nashville. Public or private? And why does it matter?

Her reluctance is detailed in this Los Angeles Times piece by Michael Mishak headlined, "Michelle Rhee, 'a public school parent?' " Mishak reports that Erin Shaw, a spokesman for Rhee's StudentsFirst anti-union organization, told the Times, "She is a public school parent." Based on that, the paper reported in an earlier story that her daughters attend public school in Nashville, where their father, Kevin Huffman, works as state commissioner of education. Rhee's husband is Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson.

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Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Brown and Penn were more selective when admitting the freshman class of 2013.

Now that college acceptance and wait-list offers are out, a college counselor offers a list of what should — and shouldn’t — happen next.

Basic information can substantially increase the number of low-income students who apply to, attend and graduate from top colleges.

The darkness and claustrophobic atmosphere of battlefield trenches across Europe during World War I recently was relived by h -More-