Fyi

A survey of education progress in the 50 states and District of Columbia gives the United States an average grade of C across a broad range of categories.

The deluge of credit card offers on campuses nationwide -- with pitches in person, by phone and e-mail, has some college students and their schools looking for ways to stop the flood.

Overview: How is the United States treating the Taliban and al Qaeda detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? Direct students to learn more about the Geneva Conventions and their stipulations for the treatment of prisoners of war. Discuss perceptions of the detainees' treatment. Have students determine how a leadership structure amongst the detainees might impact both the detainees and the guards at Gu...

Dozens of e-mail messages telling Harvard University applicants whether they had been admitted never arrived last month after America Online interpreted the messages as junk e-mail.

Black studies programs sprang up by the score on college campuses following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. But more than 30 years later, professors say they still must defend their field.

A rare 17th-century book in Latin has been returned to a Penn State library 57 years after it was last checked out. The good news is there won't be any late fees.

Don't tell Rocco Ferretti that standardized tests are ruining education.

Authorities raided the headquarters and campuses Thursday of a school that lost its charter last week because of allegations of financial mismanagement.

Students at some public universities are finding bigger bills awaiting them after winter break: Their schools took the rare step of raising tuition in midyear to offset state funding cuts.

Tom Goldstein, dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for five years, has announced plans to step down in June.

Overview: What will be among President Bush's top priorities during the State of the Union address? Discuss the role of Congress in the budgetary process and why it is important for the president to have the support of Congress. Direct students to analyze past State of the Union addresses and examine how they reflected the political, social and economic events of the times in which they w...

Faculty at the University of South Florida have voted to protest the firing of a Palestinian professor whose alleged links to terrorists affected campus safety and alumni donations.

The family of a student who committed suicide at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by setting herself on fire filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday accusing MIT administrators and counselors of negligence.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder welcomed a New York City high schools delegation to Berlin last week in preparation for the visit of 1,000 students the German leader invited after the September 11 attacks.

Germans, proud of philosophers and writers such as Nietzsche and Goethe, have long assumed their schools were among the best in the world.

Harvard President Lawrence Summers and renowned black scholar Cornel West smoothed a dispute over Summers's commitment to diversity that had raised the specter of defections among Harvard's African-American studies faculty, a university spokesman said on Friday.

Nestor Hrycenko would love the chance to score for a high school soccer team, but homeschooling has kept the 16-year-old sidelined.

Overview: President Bush is seeking an increase in the budget for the National Park Service and the National Wildlife Refuge System. Have students identify the impact of increased wildlife funding and energy exploration on the U.S. environment and its people.

When Michela Grunebaum entered kindergarten last September, her race was one of the main factors used to decide which school she would attend.

A federal judge said Thursday he's ready to approve a settlement in Mississippi's long-running college desegregation case if the legislature assures him it supports the $500 million pact.

A federal judge has ruled that the saying of grace before dinner at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is unconstitutional.

A year ago, it might have taken Robert Collins months to fix the peeling floor tiles at a school in the nation's second-largest school system.

School district officials are removing principals and teachers at four troubled schools after state audits found inadequate teaching, weak leadership and buildings marred by graffiti.

They explore the old Boeing 727 plane as any group of students on a museum field trip might. They punch buttons, try out the passenger seats and pretend they're about to take off on a long journey.

Despite a budget crunch, Maine is sticking with its plan to put a computer into the lap of every seventh- and eighth-grader in the state.

Some school officials say the big improvements in education envisioned in a bill signed by President Bush come at too high a price for most states and school districts, given their shrinking budgets.

First lady Laura Bush swiftly dispensed with the eerie memory of her Senate debut Thursday and, under the approving gaze of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, delved into the dynamics of early childhood learning.

Lawrence Summers was touring the Harvard University athletic fields in September when he saw a group of linemen lunging for the football. Without warning, Summers -- in suit and tie -- jumped into the middle of the drill, got the ball and began running the show.

Oregon's top education chief was accused Tuesday of more than 1,400 ethics violations for allegedly using government cars and telephones for personal business.

In a crowded Clemson University classroom, students in baseball caps and gray-haired retirees leafed through handouts on the first day of class as they contemplated the legacy of September 11.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- When best-selling historian Stephen Ambrose was accused of stealing material for his books, Andrew Erdlen seethed.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and four U.S. senators who toured the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Sunday said they are satisfied with the treatment of Afghan war detainees housed there.

An elementary school's group hug has been certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records.

Administrators in the Olentangy school district spent the summer debating whether to require lockdown drills in their nine schools. The September 11 attacks helped them make up their minds.

Police removed an inert bomb from a high school science fair and school officials suspended the teacher who allegedly assigned the project to a student.

The City Council has rejected a private school's request to build a new campus on the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains after two years of debate about growth in a community that prizes its small-town way of life.

The city's takeover of a troubled public school district is unconstitutional, a state court ruled Thursday.

A new study being released Monday on the skyrocketing cost of higher education says only five states have four-year public colleges that low-income students can afford without financial aid.

More girls fail to attend British secondary schools than is shown in official figures, and schools are not equipped to help them with their problems, a study published on Wednesday said.

In the 1960s, 3,800 students roamed the halls of Most Blessed Sacrament Parish Elementary School. This year, the number is down to 170 and about two-thirds aren't Catholic.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide if private colleges can be sued for giving out personal information about students, like allegations of sexual assault.

Cadets who are married or expecting newborns will be required to leave the state-supported Virginia Military Institute under a new policy set to take effect Monday.

When hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, editors at the Weekly Reader were in a quandary.

Cornel West has no shortage of battles in his path.

Opponents of Milwaukee's religious school choice program asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn its landmark 1998 decision upholding the program's constitutionality.

A women's legal group has called on Virginia Military Institute to rescind a new policy requiring married or pregnant students to leave the school, saying it discriminates against female cadets.