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Sunil Tripathi had been the subject of an incorrect rumor that he was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.    

US - CA - Los Angeles, Position Title:  Manager of Student Success Program – AA Dean’s Office To establish and oversee Student Success Center and develop online component for Summer Skills and devel

US - DC - Washington, The School of Communication at American University, Washington, D.C., welcomes applications for a tenure-line faculty position in gaming communication at the rank of associate or full professor. D

The Meridian Public Charter School is a well-regarded institution serving students in preschool through eighth grade on 13th Street between V and W streets in Northwest Washington. Nearly all of its 531 students are black or Hispanic. Eighty-seven percent are from low-income families. The student body’s reading and math proficiency rates are about 15 percentage points above the city average.

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New York City must defend school employees sued for hitting students even though the behavior violates their employment rules, the state's top court ruled Thursday.

Former Washington Post managing editor Philip Bennett will become director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University starting in July.

Bennett, who for the past two years has been managing editor of the PBS television program “Frontline,” was an editor at The Post from 1997 to 2009. He served as the newsroom’s second-ranking leader in the last four years of that period.

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US - PA - Salem, The successful candidate will have eight years of management experience in an education-related organization which included responsibility for each of the following: a) development of program rules an

Are you an NCSS Member who is looking for ways to get involved with the organization? Consider applying to an NCSS Operations Committee! NCSS Operations Committees perform many of the vital functions of the organization, including carrying out board-mandated tasks, duties, and policies. For more information, and to apply, visit: http://www.socialstudies.org/getinvolved/committees This year's deadline for applications is Monday, May 6. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate --> Read More

Strong gusts near a rural Williamsburg airport might have played a role in the plane crash that killed a two-star Air Force general and his wife last week, airport officials and family members said.

Maj. Gen. Joseph D. Brown IV, 54, and his wife, Sue Brown, 52, had traveled from their home in the District on Friday to visit Brown’s father, Joseph D. Brown III, a doctor with a private practice in Williamsburg. It was a trip the couple had made many times in the family’s single-engine Cessna 210, but airport officials said winds gusting to 35 mph might have caused the plane to stall and spin out of control just before an attempted landing.

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With the National Candidate Reply Date arriving on May 1, a director of college counseling advises students to look beyond statistics and go with their guts.    

For more than a generation, educators and policymakers have been agonizing about America’s achievement gap, the persistent chasm in academic performance between poor and privileged children.

A new book and a national campaign launched Thursday says the country must pay equal attention to the “opportunity gap” — which exists when poor and minority students and English-language learners lack the same access as affluent students to skilled teachers, quality curriculum and well-equipped schools.

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Do you think people under the age of 18 are mature enough to make life-or-death decisions on their own? Which of these things do you think constitute life-or-death decisions? Why?