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Last year it was impossible to make spring break plans one month before the vacation. Today, college students can not only book a holiday to a warm destination, but they can also get a good deal.

From car chase scenes to underwater action to computer-generated images, movies practically demand that viewers suspend their disbelief. But those special effects can sometimes be so awe-inspiring, they lead to a single, logical question.

A billionaire philanthropist will give $500,000 to a different urban school district each year to pay for college scholarships as rewards for school programs that improve student achievement.

A teacher's plan to feed three unwanted puppies to boa constrictors during a high school biology class was stymied after complaints from some parents and tears from some students.

Kathleen Carter says that when she became chairman of the education department at historically black Delaware State University in 1995, she found herself facing more than the usual administrative hassles.

President and Mrs. Bush visited an Alexandria elementary school Wednesday to thank the students for raising money for Afghan children and to promote two programs to help schoolchildren in the war-torn country.

President Bush called for education reforms Tuesday that treat the nation's teachers like the professionals they are, in terms of salary, working conditions and general support for the sacrifices they make.

In a move that could affect high school seniors nationwide, the head of the College Board is proposing major changes to the SAT I in an apparent effort to hold on to its biggest client, the University of California.

Most parents of college students get plenty of campus-related information -- newsletters, solicitations, the inevitable bills. But if the student fails a slew of courses, attempts suicide or is hospitalized after a drinking binge, mom and dad may be kept in the dark.

ZIP! The Bulgarian actress, her manicured nails painted a deep red, points to the fourth-grader with the long pony tail. Woodrow Wilson, the girl responds, looking at a picture held by her neighbor.

The state school board, struggling to come up with new science standards, heard during a packed hearing from backers of evolution and from those who believe life must have been designed by a higher power.

Overview: CNN Student News correspondent Michael McManus talks with Dr. Natalia Vandenberg, an entomologist at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Investigate the stages of gradual and complete metamorphosis. Have students identify local habitats and insects in those habitats and determine how insects make a living in the given habitat.

Harvard University janitors have been offered a 16 percent pay increase following a living wage campaign that included a three-week student occupation of administrative offices.

The company that provides Internet service for the state's largest online charter school is pulling the plug because the school is behind in its payments.

The teachers who strip-searched third-grade students looking for $5 in missing lunch money face dismissal, schools Superintendent Bernard Taylor said.

Columbia University teaching assistants vote this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers. Resident assistants at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have already agreed to unionize.

First lady Laura Bush said Thursday that America's teachers are often underfunded and underprepared and then enter an environment where they're left to sink or swim.

He was proclaimed the greatest genius to ever grace the Earth. With a purported IQ of 298, he was taking college classes when most children his age were starting grade school.

A troubled online charter school accused of failing to educate its 2,000 students will be allowed to stay open under an agreement reached Thursday with the Pennsylvania Education Department.

On the bulletin board outside the office of Piper High School principal Mike Adams, newspaper clippings herald the school's athletic success and student achievements.

Several parents are seeking the removal of three members of a school board that reversed a science teacher's decision to give zeros to 28 students accused of plagiarism on a botany project.

Edison Schools Inc., a for-profit company, is getting a leading role in revamping the troubled Philadelphia school system.

Ham Hutchinson is reveling in the past and loving it.

High school students can end the nerve-racking wait for SAT scores a week early, but it will cost them.

When Schools Superintendent Edwin Coyle wanted to find out where some of his students were sleeping, he did what a suspicious spouse might -- he hired a private investigator to tail them.

At 38 students, Dame Forbes' sixth-period chemistry class is so big her students can't even squeeze into the laboratory. She must split the class in two, sending half to the library for a related project, while the other half uses the lab. They switch places the following class.

Ari Kitzman has a new look for this gig: a pointy blond Mohawk. He sits down at the drums and hammers out a pounding solo that gets the crowd roaring.

A 16-year-old honors student expelled for having a bread knife in his truck can return to his high school, officials said Thursday.

When John Davin got acceptance letters from seven colleges, he weighed their financial aid offers and then asked his top two choices if they could do better.

Returning to campus after a semester in Italy, what immediately struck Syracuse University student Marni Landis was the flag.

A system that bases billions of dollars in education aid on the number of pupils getting free or discounted lunches is encouraging schools to inflate the figures, the Bush administration says.

To help combat obesity in children, Texas will reinstate mandatory gym class in elementary schools, seven years after it was phased out to allow more time for academics.

Insects pollinate our flowers and trees, they produce bounty like silk and honey and continue the ecological cycle. Too bad they have a public relations problem.

Taylor Hess says the 10-inch bread knife found by a school security guard in the bed of his pickup was accidentally left behind from a box of personal belongings owned by his ailing grandmother.