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Public schools in Jackson, Miss., will no longer be allowed to handcuff students to poles or other objects, under a settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center reached in U.S. District Court. Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center,...

Public schools in Jackson, Miss., will no longer be allowed to handcuff students to poles or other objects, under a settlement with the Southern Poverty Law Center reached in U.S. District Court. Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center,...

Under Michigan's new teacher tenure law, teachers in Detroit Public Schools were sent layoff notices and must go through a rehiring process. But that process violates contracts within the Detroit Federation of Teachers, so the union might file a lawsuit, Michigan Radio reports.

Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.

Quebec's generous social services date back to sweeping reforms in the 1960s, a period of intense nationalism. Yet many Quebecers look back at the "Quiet Revolution" with regret over one unfulfilled promise: free higher education.

(Reuters) - The Jackson, Mississippi, school district has agreed to stop shackling students to fixed objects, after it was sued for handcuffing pupils to railings and poles at a school for troubled children, officials said on Friday. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued Jackson Public Schools in 2011 over its treatment …

Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline.

The widow of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy has called on Boston College Law School graduates to use training from their Catholic education to work for justice.

A U.S. clampdown on visas for instructors at China's flagship cultural program overseas has incensed Beijing, with state media pouncing on it as an attempt by Washington to frustrate Chinese global ambitions.

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney decried President Barack Obama as beholden to the nation's teachers' unions and unable to stand up for reform, he glossed over four years of a relationship that has been anything but cozy.

House budget panels approved Thursday large portions of their blueprint for North Carolina state government spending next year that restore funds to the public schools but leave intact many cuts to other agencies already approved last year.

    If you were a child in the District of Columbia school system (51st in state rankings for academic achievement, first for school violence), you and your parents probably greeted the election of Barack Obama with great joy. If someone had suggested to you then that the president would attempt to torpedo the scholarship …

COMMENTARY | According to Reuters, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken time from his economic offensive against Democratic president Barack Obama to open a new front in the intense 2012 presidential election: Public schools.

For Ohio high school teacher S. Alexander Cooke, the end result of college shouldn't be about the employment waiting after graduation.

FIRST PERSON | As a teacher, I wonder about my students after they graduate. Most attend college, but others become successful business owners and trade workers without college. College's importance depends on one's career choice.

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel overseas next week for the first time in more than two decades to attend an economic forum in Bangkok, her party said on Thursday.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by Britain's prestigious Oxford University, her alma mater announced Thursday.

FIRST PERSON | As a ninth grade AVID teacher in Davis, California, a huge part of my job is preparing freshmen for admission to the college of their choice. I help them plan their high school schedules to make sure they have their admission requirements satisfied. They register for and complete the PSAT, set up College …

FIRST PERSON | For the first time ever, more people 25 and over with some college education are unemployed than those who only hold a high school diploma. While this may seem shocking to some, as a former high school teacher, and current community college professor, I am not surprised to see these statistics.

More high school students are enrolling in math and science classes and seeking online learning opportunities. Fewer want or are able to find jobs while in school.

Hawaii's teachers union has approved a new contract that members overwhelmingly rejected earlier this year.

(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Education is investigating whether the University of Montana responded promptly and appropriately to at least 11 reported rapes and sexual assaults at its Missoula campus since 2010, a spokesman for the agency said on Wednesday. The investigation coincides with the opening on May 1 of …

More than 5,000 Louisiana students in 33 parishes can get new taxpayer-funded voucher slots at private schools this fall, under a law pushed by Gov. Bobby Jindal that created a statewide voucher program.