An attorney for the family of an Anne Arundel County 7-year-old suspended from school after being accused of nibbling a pastry into the shape of a gun says he met with school officials Wednesday in an attempt have the student's suspension expunged, b ...

Anything but college to try to get a job. College no longer guarantees success or even a good enough job to pay back student loans. Thanks, but no thanks, some high school grads are starting to say to higher education. Instead, some are starting thei ...

Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after me ...

Guess who sends her kids to private school when they reach high school age? That's right: longtime public-school parent-activist Leonie Haimson. Fine by us. Like any parent, she's entitled to do what's best for her children - and private schools by a ...

WASHINGTON -- Before job-seekers fill out an application for work making foam products for the aerospace industry at General Plastics Manufacturing Co. in Tacoma, Wash., they have to take a math test. Eighteen questions, 30 minutes, and using a calcu ...

Educators accused in a massive cheating scandal at the city's public schools began turning themselves in Tuesday, some facing bonds of $1 million or more. The 35 defendants were indicted Friday on 65 counts, including racketeering, making false state ...

Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin - who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard - now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University's School of Social Work, The Post ...

IPSWICH -- John Gillis has two students at the middle school who have worked hard to make the honor roll this year, but they won't be able to attend the school's annual honors night to celebrate their achievement. That's because the school administra ...

A state senator told colleagues Wednesday that a bill to prohibit school systems from suspending children who make gun gestures or have objects that look like a gun is needed because "this has gotten out of hand." Sen. J.B. Jennings filed his bill af ...

The Pasco School District has overturned the suspension of a 6-year-old boy who talked about his toy guns at school. Mike Aguirre's son Noah, a first-grader at James McGee Elementary School, was sent home Feb. 28 after another student told their teac ...