A survey of high-school children in Scotland has shown that pupils who experience positive and inclusive social environments in schools are less likely to take up smoking.

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.

Parents in Wisconsin say don't recite The Pledge Of Allegiance in any language other than English.

The BBC has reported that over 1200 schools will be fully or partially closed by the national UK teachers strike on Thursday. 43 schools in Norfolk are expected to be closed, while in Bolton, 56 schools are expected to be fully closed.

Police say five boys arrested at gunpoint over yesterday's rampage at a western Sydney school have been remanded in custody because they treated the attack as a joke.

Thousands of teachers across New South Wales will stop work at 9:00am (AEST) today to oppose new school staffing policies.

Five teenage boys face 101 charges over a rampage at a western Sydney school yesterday that left a teacher in hospital and 17 children injured.

U21Global, the world's premier online graduate school, has announced the appointment of Nick Hutton as its Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 April 2008.

The Victorian Government has revealed the locations of two new selective entry secondary schools.

A group of Turkish education experts will be visiting primary schools in the region this week [11 to 15 February] to gather information about Bristol University’s science engagement activities. It is hoped that the fact-finding exercise will help them develop their own outreach programmes to take back and employ in primary schools in rural parts of Turkey.

The bad weather, snow and freezing temperature, especially in West Michigan, have slowed down life particularly by school closings in MI.

The education world is under more scrutiny than ever before. Reports, political platforms, test result comparisons, and various articles in newspapers and magazines all criticize a field that just a generation or so ago was considered an unabashed American success.