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A strange and hardy terrestrial microorganism can grow in atmospheric and soil conditions that resemble Mars, suggesting that life could thrive on the red planet, according to scientists.

A decade after Hurricane Andrew struck southern Florida, Joanna Munoz can't forget it. She relives it, every single day.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is very unhappy with the various military plans and options that generals and admirals have presented him on how to deal with Iraq, sources told CNN Thursday.

For many students, going back to school each fall can be a time of mixed emotions. New teachers, new buildings and new social cliques can cause the happiness of being back among friends to be tainted by anxiety.

For a college student, the mystery of who will be a dorm roommate can add a lot of extra anxiety to the prospect of starting school. So, a Georgia university is among the first in the United States to provide a roommate match-matching service in which students handpick their dorm mates and rooms online.

The trials and tribulations of television's favorite dysfunctional crime family, The Sopranos, are set to be yanked from New Jersey's mean streets and dissected alongside Shakespeare at a Canadian university.

Scores dipped for the high school class of 2002 on the ACT college entrance exam, breaking a five-year streak during which results remained unchanged, the test maker said Wednesday.

The maker of the United States' second-most widely used college entrance test, the ACT, says it will include an optional essay on its exam which students can take depending on the admissions requirements of the colleges where they're applying.

Leaders of a school boycott told parents Saturday to send their children back to class, saying the protest got state and district officials to listen to their complaints about board elections and school conditions.

The stock market's long slide has had a punishing effect on the Buchanan family college fund.

At Vernon Hills High School, the new football stadium will bear the name of a paint maker and the $80,000 scoreboard will be sponsored by a computer company.

About 60 percent of the people on the staff at Columbine High have left since the school became the site of the nation's deadliest school shooting in 1999.

A public interest group sued a suburban Dallas school district Thursday over a policy banning employees from sending e-mail containing religious messages.

Students who violate the dress code at Easley High School are given something new to wear: T-shirts with the words Tomorrow I will dress for success.

The Education Department announced this week that it will investigate how Edison Schools Inc. obtained its contract to run 20 low-performing Philadelphia schools.

Overview: Ten years ago, the residents of Homestead, Florida faced Hurricane Andrew, now known as the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Some of Andrew's economic and social costs are still evident in Dade County. This article will help students understand the long-term effects major hurricanes have on lives and property. Have students investigate the scientific formation of hurricanes and t...

On a heat-seared thoroughfare outside the five-story Shenzhen Book City, a dozen men are handing out tiny pink business cards to the pedestrians streaming past.

Faced with parents who want biblical creationism taught in the classroom, Georgia's second-largest school district is considering a policy that could open the door to disputed views about the origin of life.

Aaron Karo follows a basic writer's rule: Stick with what you know.

Black and gold banners proclaiming 100 Years of Excellence remain on lamp posts throughout the Grambling State University campus a year after the historically black school's centennial.

High school students who use drugs should be treated and counseled, not simply suspended or expelled, according to a new guidelines from the Bush administration.

August 27, 2002

Los Angeles County school officials voted Tuesday to ban the sale of soft drinks to its 735,000 students amid worries about increasingly overweight children being fed junk food in their schools.

Hoping to combat childhood obesity, the nation's second-largest school district is expected to ban the sale of soft drinks at its 677 campuses.

A second bad year for the economy is driving up tuition and fees on many public four-year campuses as state revenues decline while costs keep escalating.

R.J. Agee says the University of Missouri-Rolla is a great place, no matter what you read about it.

Traditionally, teachers' raises have been linked to years in the classroom or extra coursework completed. But critics say it's time to change that system, and tie teachers' pay to performance.

High school students who participate in teams and clubs or who seek school parking permits can be tested randomly for drugs, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Monday.

Computer-based versions of the Graduate Record Examination will be suspended in four Asian countries after a yearlong investigation uncovered Asian-language Web sites with answers to the test.

SAT math scores among college-bound students this year hit their highest level in more than three decades, according to a College Board report, which noted that the math gender gap is closing as females' scores rise closer to those of males.

When students do not show up for class at the KEY Academy, a public charter school for fifth- and sixth-graders, principal Susan Schaeffler has been known to get in her car and find out why.

The nation's two largest teachers unions are at odds over a psychologist's advice on how to talk to children about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

With sexually active students on their campuses and the Vatican unswervingly opposed to premarital sex, America's Roman Catholic colleges face difficult choices on such sensitive matters as condom use and unwanted pregnancies.

With little time to spare, baseball negotiators who talked through the night reached a tentative agreement on a labor contract that averted a strike threatened for Friday.

In some school bathrooms, Tom Keating discovered it was easier to find the toilet paper hanging from the ceiling than the roll. In others, the toilets were chronically backed up, obscenities were scrawled on the walls and cigarette butts littered the sinks.

Most Americans oppose the use of public funds to help parents send their children to private or church-sponsored schools, according to a study released Tuesday.

Almost 50 years after state-sponsored school segregation was outlawed, American public schools are becoming increasingly divided by race, even as minority populations increase nationwide, according to a new report.

When terrorists struck on September 11, teachers across the country had to field question after question from classrooms of anxious students.

In response to a federal appeals court ruling, the University of Georgia announced a new admissions policy Wednesday that doesn't consider race.

Weekly Reader, an institution in public schools for a century, announced it will devote its September issues to helping teachers and students commemorate the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks.