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Higher education is taking a bigger chunk out of the annual income of American families, according to a new report released by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

The Bush administration is pushing rule changes to encourage more single-sex classes and schools, marking a significant change in the U.S. government's 30-year policy prohibiting gender discrimination in public schools.

California may become first state to force nearly all public schools to drop American Indian team names and mascots such as Redskins, Chiefs and Apaches.

A deadline looms Saturday that could ignite a smoldering conflict over academic freedom between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and theologians at the nation's 235 Catholic colleges and universities.

The Citadel passes another milestone this week with the graduation of its first black female cadets six years after the state military college opened its gates to women.

Overview: The National Hurricane Center is bracing for a busier than usual storm season this year. Have students identify causes and components of hurricanes and determine the factors that strengthen and/or lessen their intensity. Have students examine the relationship between wind direction and temperature and determine how it influences hurricane development.

Foreign language classrooms across the country are growing increasingly silent. Instead of tackling French, German or other more commonly taught languages, students are learning to speak with their hands.

A joint project of three federal agencies has closed down 11 companies accused of defrauding students and their families in college scholarship scams.

Texas A&M regents named former CIA director Robert Gates on Saturday as the sole finalist for university president.

Shenaz Abreo knew she and her fellow seniors couldn't donate the typical fountain or benches as their parting gift to Northwest Missouri State University -- not after September 11.

Harvard University will soon require eyewitnesses, physical evidence and other independent proof before investigating sexual assault claims.

Some Harvard University professors and students are angered by a new policy for investigating student sexual misconduct and want more debate, even though the faculty unanimously approved the change last week.

Between the day Hunter Southerland applied to West Point and the day he was accepted, the United States was attacked.

If money buys good public schools, New Jersey and New York are buying the best, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which said both states spend more than $10,000 per student each year, far above the $6,835 national average.

More than 3,700 seniors at eight San Fernando Valley high schools cannot take part in graduation ceremonies unless their future plans include college, military service or trade school.

At first, Tomasa Galeana got strange looks from her classmates at Thomas Edison Elementary School.

The planned commencement speech of an American Muslim student is sparking a protest from some Harvard University students, who want the speech to condemn terrorism.

California's public schools are in shocking disrepair, with almost one-third of teachers saying they lack enough books for children to do homework and almost as many reporting classrooms crawling with cockroaches, rats and mice.

As a Pennsylvania school district tries to settle whether the deaths of six students since December are connected, Dawn Batdorf is anxious for reassurance.

The European Union has agreed to recognize Russia as a market economy -- a key step on the road to entry into the World Trade Organization.

The Bush administration is moving to provide local educators with more freedom to establish single-sex classes in U.S. public schools with plans to amend a 1972 law targeting gender bias in education.

In the final week before finals, University of Connecticut students are getting a lesson in the boundaries of free speech thanks to a sexually explicit student-run TV program that women find degrading.

After slowly and deliberately working his way through a mountain of words, a Colorado seventh-grader spelled prospicience -- meaning foresight -- to win the 75th Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.

Hands planted firmly in his pockets, Pierre Nicholas Thompson stood at the microphone, leaned back and easily spelled chinoiserie to survive the first round of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.

Just before taking a test, senior Katie Marco often says a short, silent prayer for success.

Last summer, Tracey Lomrantz was a paid intern for a New York law firm. This year, with a stack of rejections from journalism internships on her desk, she figures she'll wait tables.

Students who go straight from high school to college and, after studying at their parents' expense, leave the same campus four years later with a degree are now a minority at the nation's four-year schools, a new study says.

Most school shooters felt bullied or threatened by someone else just before they went on a rampage, a study by the Secret Service finds, with virtually all shooters having difficulties coping with a relationship or a falling out among peers.

School shootings may loom large in the public's mind, but school board members have bigger problems -- only one in nine says school violence is a major concern.

A teacher was charged with arson after allegedly grabbing a newspaper from a student who was reading in class and setting it on fire, police said.

After a year of critical standardized tests, the results were in. For Simonton Elementary School principal Betty Robinson, they were not good.

A 13-year-old girl survived a case of alcohol poisoning after drinking 4 to 5 ounces of tequila on her middle school playground.

High school seniors have a poor grasp of U.S. history, with less than half able to identify or explain the Monroe Doctrine, Nat Turner's rebellion or the Bay of Pigs invasion.

They're a class of three in a tiny school tucked so deep into the West Virginia mountains that a shortcut to a neighboring town is a gravel road through a dense forest.

Makers of the SAT and the ACT college admissions tests would rather switch formats than fight the powerful University of California's demands for change.

A college class devoted to Bill Clinton's presidency will be offered in his native state next year and a Republican will teach it.

Seventh-grade teacher Diana Weehuizen Beltran's classroom is decorated with a map and several travel posters from Spain, and her students ask questions about the island of Mallorca, where her husband's family has a restaurant.

The Bush administration backed away on Tuesday from a proposal to curtail a popular student loan program, saying it would look at other ways to save money after Democrats charged that the plan would make it more expensive for millions of Americans to attend college.

Words that champions correctly spelled to win each of the 74 National Spelling Bee competitions.

Anne Martindell's quest for a diploma took several detours since the day in 1932 when she arrived for her freshman year at Smith College in a chauffeur-driven car with her trunks packed by a French maid.

Calvin McCarter, the youngest competitor in a field of 55 youthful geography experts, won the National Geographic Bee Wednesday.