Several Catholic high schools have been closed by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for a variety of reasons. Two Roman Catholic high schools in Philadelphia are being closed permanently because their enrollment is down. Another high school, Archbishop Carroll High School in Philadelphia, is only closed temporarily. An outbreak of the swine flu has forced the school to close for the rest of the week.

“There are three key ways home schoolers are positively impacting the US economy, and we should be paying close attention to this growing population,” says Josephine Nicholas, Chief Operating Officer of Published Daily, a new startup tech company whose aim is to help professionals better communicate and market to their networks.

With the Taliban-era ban on girls from attending school still fresh in the minds of Afghans, the country's education system can already boast that nearly 40 percent of students are girls. Since the authorities opened the way for private investment into Afghanistan's education system nearly two years ago, more than 300 private schools have opened, from Kabul to remote provinces.

Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students.