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If humans shoved off this planet for a deep space expedition lasting two centuries, would their descendents be able to speak intelligibly with those left behind?

Using a $30 million gift from the head of online auction site eBay, Princeton University will substantially expand its undergraduate ranks for the first time since it began admitting women.

In a movement that gained momentum with the after-September 11 surge in patriotism, several states have passed or are considering legislation to post the motto In God We Trust in schools.

The head of Harvard's black studies program, Henry Louis Gates Jr., said he will decide this summer whether he will follow a colleague to Princeton University.

Bob Jones University, the fundamentalist Christian school that banned interracial dating up until two years ago, is recruiting minorities in hopes of shaking its racist image.

Katrina Brown was busy raising a family and working full-time as a manager for the Long Island Rail Road. But deciding she needed more, Brown enrolled in an online master's degree program two years ago with the University of Phoenix.

A proposal in President Bush's budget Monday to give a tax credit for private school tuition has revived a long-simmering dispute over using public funds for private or religious schooling.

Bob McCollum's celebration of his 76th birthday last January was interrupted when a woman burst through his door with horrific news.

President Bush's proposed federal budget would end an aid program that gives states $67 million for needy college students, potentially affecting 1.2 million recipients, say state officials who vow to save the program they've rescued many times before.

William Hoffman started his college search in 10th grade. By the start of his senior year last fall, he knew his first choice was Harvard. The school even sent him a letter, encouraging him to apply.

Jodee Zalar has a 3.6 grade average at Wittenberg University, studied in England and has completed several internships.

Jillian Alexander felt the joy of being admitted to Johnson & Wales University even before completing her application. The teen-ager simply gave her transcript to a recruiter from the private school in Providence, R.I., and soon heard those golden words: You've been accepted.

Test-takers tackling the GED face a new challenge -- a revised, tougher exam that its designers say is more reflective of what is being taught in the nation's high schools.

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Ohio has become the latest battleground for conservative groups that want alternative theories to evolution to be taught in classrooms.

Two women who know something about starting new careers -- first lady Laura Bush and first lady-turned-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- joined to put in a plug Tuesday for recruiting teachers by luring mid-career professionals from other fields.

Students in Tennessee will be among the first in the nation to use new textbooks detailing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

State lawmakers pushed to expand Florida's first-in-the-nation statewide school voucher law, while a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the 3-year-old law was put on hold Wednesday.

The history of teaching math in America parallels the development of many elegant inventions: the smooth metal slide rule, crystal-clear plastic protractors, disposable graph paper.

Many of Afghanistan's schools are destroyed, most trained educators have not taught in two decades and textbooks are virtually nonexistent.

Two members of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals were accused of embezzling at least $100,000 from the 207-year-old student group for drugs, a party and entertainment equipment.

Harvard University President Lawrence Summers says the university will raise the wages of its lowest-paid workers, an issue that sparked campus protests last year.

For Roberta Kitchen, the national debate over school vouchers is more about the education of her 11-year-old daughter than entrenched arguments over separation of church and state.

Responding to the post-September 11 burst of patriotism, state lawmakers around the country want to put the Pledge of Allegiance into more public schools.

The cartoon in Elena Rodriguez's office shows a librarian at her desk behind a nameplate that reads Search Engine.

Makeovers, basketball, scuba diving, lowfat cooking lessons and yoga -- that's how teachers at a high school spent their work day. And they got paid for it.

The group lining the sidewalk in the tranquil neighborhood weren't young fans camping out for tickets to the new Star Wars movie. They were parents trying to get their children into one of 30 precious pre-kindergarten spots in the capital's only bilingual elementary school.

The Supreme Court upheld the common schoolroom practice of having one student grade another's work, ruling Tuesday that such paper-swapping does not violate federal privacy law.

As her 13-year-old son struggled with attention deficit disorder, Jeanette Troche was frustrated that his Philadelphia public school couldn't provide the needed help.

Accelerated high school courses in math and science cover a smorgasbord of material too quickly and superficially, sacrificing students' in-depth understanding of a few important topics, a new government study said.

High school teacher Christine Pelton wasted no time after discovering that nearly a fifth of her biology students had plagiarized their semester projects from the Internet.

The push is on to drop the SAT I as a University of California admissions requirement, and a key faculty committee has proposed developing new entry exams tailored to state curriculum.

At Wednesday night's 44th annual Grammys, females dominate top categories including best new artist, song of the year and the R&B field.