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Drinking by American college students results in some 1,400 student deaths and 70,000 cases of sexual assault each year, a study released Tuesday says.

Cheating is a shortcut and it's a pretty efficient one in a lot of cases.

A hard-fought but indecisive victory, complaints about scoring and a breathless high court drama -- familiar elements of the latest presidential campaign and Winter Olympics -- worked their way into the annual high school battle of the brains.

Leaders of the United States' Roman Catholic schools can recite a daunting list of challenges -- tight finances, teacher retention, shifting demographics.

Move over, football and basketball stars. Now chess players are also being offered scholarships as colleges look to world-class chess play to try to enhance their public image.

Three elementary schools will be closed for poor performance, the first time such a drastic step has been taken in seven years of reform efforts in Chicago's public schools.

When Jeffrey Levy finished college in December, he figured by spring he'd be commuting to a new job on Wall Street, earning $40,000-plus a year and celebrating his financial independence by looking for his own apartment.

The nearly 16,000 students competing for spots in Duke University's next freshman class had to answer an unusual question: Did you get help on your application essay?

Ohio's Wesleyan University has strict policies banning plagiarism, sexual harassment, hazing and alcohol abuse. Last month, it banned something new: sexual affairs between professors and their students.

What do you get when you mix a cadre of crashing cymbals, booming bongo drums, piercing brass instruments, dancing musicians and swirling color? The answer: Blast!, a concert that assaults the senses as much as it entertains.

Harvard University, hurt recently by prominent defections and a public dispute with its team of black scholars, said on Sunday it had landed former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin as a member of its governing board.

Nearly 15 years before Gerica McCrary was born, recently integrated Taylor County High School stopped sponsoring a prom. Parents and students set up their own -- one for blacks and one for whites.

For the Gay-Straight Alliance at Stratford High School, progress can be measured in the hallways: These days, only some of its posters get torn down.

Harvard University, addressing concerns about grade inflation, is considering restoring a B as the average grade, and clarifying the meaning of each A on transcripts.

Parents with questions about reading, school discipline, special education or other education matters will have access this week to free, anonymous advice from a school principal or psychologist through a special toll-free number.

While admitting they made mistakes, members of a school board refused to reverse their decision to force a teacher to change the grades of students she had failed for committing plagiarism.

Talks ended late Thursday between representatives of striking Los Angeles school bus drivers and management, but there's still no resolution in the three-day-old walkout.

Community leaders looking to boost test scores at nine elementary schools have begun offering a new incentive for current and future teachers: help buying a house.

A proposal to name a new school after an area resident who died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has split the community and school board.

Jennifer Mullins has visions of the perfect prom dress.

Paying $90,000 for a prescription may seem steep, but it's a bargain to pay the person that fills it -- at least that's what CVS Pharmacy is paying for one graduating senior at Duquesne University.

Forty-two of the city's low-performing middle and elementary schools are to be turned over to for-profit companies and universities as part of the nation's largest school privatization plan.

Salaries for the nation's teachers just barely kept pace with living costs in the 1990s, rising 31 percent to about $43,000, the nation's largest teachers union said Monday.

President Bush on Wednesday praised a retired Army colonel who made education a second career and became the 2002 teacher of the year.

Debbie Godfrey likes the school where her son Dylan is a first-grader. She is comfortable with the teachers and the principal in the small brick building tucked into a quiet suburb near her apartment.

The principal at T.R. Smedberg Middle School held meetings last week for parents to discuss their children's scores on standardized tests. There were four meetings in all, with separate gatherings for whites, Asians, blacks and Hispanics.

They know how to use a credit card at the mall, yet many high school seniors mistakenly think they won't have any liability if the card is stolen and a thief runs up charges.

When the school year begins this fall, 3,000 to 5,000 schools nationwide probably will be declared failing by states, which would make their students eligible for federally paid tutoring or transportation to other public schools, Congress was told Tuesday.

An estimated 1,400 college students are killed every year in alcohol-related accidents, according to a study released Tuesday -- a study that researchers call the most comprehensive look ever at the consequences of student drinking.

Teen-agers feel safer and more at home in smaller schools with evenhanded discipline policies and teachers who can maintain control, the results of a new study suggest.

Julie Weddell finished in last place when she ran for a seat on the Wagner School Board two years ago, and her aunt did not fare much better when she tried last year.

Fearing a lawsuit, a school board in a small Colorado town unanimously voted against teaching creationism in science classes.

The University of California has decided to pull its students out of Israel, becoming the latest university to reevaluate its study abroad programs as violence escalates in the Middle East.

The University of North Carolina is dropping its early decision admissions program, becoming the first major U.S. university to end the increasingly controversial policy, officials said.

Hundreds of disenchanted teachers are preparing to flee 70 city schools that are to be privatized or otherwise transformed under sweeping reforms planned for the fall, union officials said Friday.

The family behind the Wal-Mart empire gave $300 million to the University of Arkansas on Thursday, said to be the largest gift made to a public university in the United States.

Students at West Virginia University say a policy that establishes free expression areas at seven locations on campus is unconstitutional and limits free speech and assembly.

Skirting a federal policy, Yale University will become the fourth college in the country to reimburse students who lose financial aid because of convictions for drug possession.