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The maker of the ACT college entrance test will no longer mark the scores of disabled students who are given extra time as special, following the lead of its rival SAT exam.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said this week that the bulk of the war-torn country's annual budget needed to be spent on health and education and the defense and interior ministries would have to cut back to help out.

The state has filed an appeal with the Arkansas Supreme Court challenging a judge's ruling that the state's public school funding formula is unfair and provides inadequate resources.

The scores of SAT exams taken by disabled students who needed extra time will no longer be flagged, or pointed out to colleges and others looking at the results, The College Board says. Advocates had said the practice violated federal law.

School officials in the small town of Jeannette have tried to cut next year's budget to the bone by forgoing new band instruments, limiting sports equipment purchases and slashing spending on textbooks in half.

When Wanda Morsell's two older children needed help last year keeping up with schoolwork, the mother of three enrolled them in summer school.

If you are a high school student thinking about college, consider this: Someone with a bachelor's degree earns nearly $1 million more over his or her lifetime than a high school graduate.

If going online with your home computer is like turning on the tap for a glass of water, getting on the Internet this fall at Case Western Reserve University is going to be like opening a fire hydrant.

Concerned about stories appearing in the campus newspaper, a dean at Governors State University telephoned the printer one night with some instructions.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has chosen the onetime head of the Justice Department's antitrust division to run New York City's faltering, 1.1 million-pupil public school system.

Three foundations suspended funding to Pittsburgh's public schools, accusing school leaders of bickering, distrust and chaotic decision making.

Law school applications are up dramatically -- the biggest increase in at least two decades -- as more young people are deciding the job market out there is just too rough.

The first word of trouble at the Groton School came with an unexpected speech by a popular student at a school assembly. His allegations of rampant sex abuse by other students shocked the elite boarding school, and tremors are still being felt three years later.

For the past 14 years, Lisa Armstrong has been teaching the literature of the Holocaust to students at St. Thomas Aquinas High School, a Catholic private school in Overland Park, Kansas.

President Bush is justified in being concerned about Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's relentless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, the Democratic chairman of a Senate committee said at the start of two days of hearings.

Zach Galvin makes a good living teaching English, drama and public speaking in Natick, Massachusetts. But high living costs make it hard to make ends meet in the Boston suburb.

Students in 8,600 schools that have failed to meet learning standards, or 9 percent of U.S. public schools, can choose to go to better schools in their districts this fall, the Education Department said Monday.

When the lifeguard job Matt McClelland had lined up for the summer didn't work out, he wasn't crushed.

North Carolina threw out the disappointing results of a statewide writing test for schoolchildren Thursday, in part because the exam wasn't written clearly enough.

The city's new education chief says Edison Schools Inc.'s help is no longer needed to streamline the school system's bureaucracy.

One of the three Piper School District Board members criticized by parents for mishandling a plagiarism controversy has resigned.

A university student broke into her school's computer system and gave herself passing grades in three courses, police said.

Descendants of a couple who donated what has become a $600 million endowment at Princeton University have sued the school in a bid to transfer the money to another university.

By the time students in Norfolk, Virginia, see special education teacher Charlene Christopher, they're usually in fourth grade. Most haven't learned to read very well.

Princeton University admissions officers who snooped into a Yale University Web site 18 times in April apparently accessed the account of Lauren Bush, the president's niece.

Family members and dependents of people killed or disabled in the September 11 terrorist attacks will receive college scholarships under a bill signed Friday by Gov. George Pataki.

Dozens of students were told to undergo AIDS and hepatitis tests after their teacher had them share a needle to draw blood during science class, a school official said Thursday.

Officials at a South Dakota school confined students to their classrooms for several hours while a police dog toured the rooms, sniffing children as young as 6 to check for drugs, according to a lawsuit filed against the school.

A suspended teacher convicted of sexually assaulting eight students on school grounds has been sentenced to 80 years in prison.

The way Kay Johnson sees it, if public school parents want to send their children to private schools, that's fine. She adds one detail.

High school students will soon have to roll up their sleeves and write an essay when they take the SAT. Not surprisingly, their English teachers are smiling.

Gregory Spon was a drafting student at Pittsburgh Technical Institute when he decided to move on to a four-year college and earn a bachelor's degree in engineering or architecture. He got a nasty surprise.

The former head of Chicago's school system has been selected to lead Philadelphia's troubled schools and oversee the nation's biggest attempt at privatizing public education, his spokesman said Tuesday.

Last fall, with a GPA of better than 4.0, a 1300 on the SAT and a stint as a varsity golf player and student mentor, Jack Graham applied to the University of California campuses of Berkeley, San Diego and Santa Barbara.

University of California regents raised tuition for out-of-state and foreign students Thursday over objections that the increase may conflict with a policy that gives some illegal immigrants an in-state tuition break.

The U.N. Children's Fund announced this week that there has been a massive return of Afghan children -- both boys and girls -- to schools around the country since they reopened earlier this year after the fall of the Taliban.

Dozens of citizens on Wednesday debated the accuracy of hundreds of history textbooks the state is considering purchasing for its public schools.

The United States, in dire need of more science and mathematics teachers, should persuade those with doctorates in these disciplines to pursue careers in education, an independent panel of scientists said on Tuesday.