It began as an ordinary night in a quiet South African town - two students driving home after spending time together. But in the shadows, four men waited for their chance. What followed was a violent ...

Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an admissions requirement five years ago? Now arrives the dispiriting result: Many freshmen at one of its ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, stopped him in his tracks. Reading the words back to himself, Dave Robbins, a ...

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The U.S. Department of Education released two new proposed priorities for competitive grant-making on Thursday, shedding more light on what initiatives the administration plans to champion—just as it ...

The bad news keeps coming from America’s K-12 schools. Last week it was the dismal results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and a report Tuesday documents more evidence of ...

The sort of violence that took the life of a Ukrainian refugee, Iryna Zarutska, on a light-rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, last month is impossible to make sense of. But that doesn’t mean ...

High schoolers in the United States last year earned their lowest marks on reading and math in two decades, according to “The Nation’s Report Card,” released on Sept. 9. The test, also known as the ...

Two MTA workers were injured in a pair of random assaults less than a week apart — and their attackers remain on the loose, police said Wednesday. The latest attack unfolded early Tuesday morning when ...