National Headlines

A single mother herself, Veronica Scarborough knows how hard it can be to make ends meet. That’s why she gives out dozens of snacks every day to needy students.

Nowadays, if you're a teenager who's good at video games there's a lot more to be had than just a pot of virtual gold. There's college scholarships, tournament money and high salary jobs. Today, more than 170 colleges and universities…

A lot more middle school students may be traveling to Mars or navigating the open seas on ancient ships to study math following state endorsement of a Taos company’s digital animation and video curriculum. MidSchoolMath LLC has developed a comprehensive…

Parents and guardians of Denver public schoolchildren will soon get a message from the school district: If you have firearms in your home, it’s important to store them safely. The Denver school board on Thursday passed a resolution in support…

Black, Hispanic, and rural students have a harder time getting mental health support in school, according to a new survey of thousands of students who took the ACT. Even in schools that offer mental health services, students are not always…

Walk into any K-5 classroom in Illinois’ Rockford Public Schools and there’s one thing you’re guaranteed to see: kids playing with Legos. While it may look like unstructured free time, kids in Rockford are actually hard at work when the…

Christina Potenzone went to graduate school to become a science teacher. Though many new teachers feel overwhelmed when they enter a classroom, Potenzone said she felt wholly underprepared to meet the steep challenges of her seventh graders when she landed…

A black Texas high school student won't be allowed to return to school or attend his graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks, his family says. Deandre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu in Southeast…

The District of Columbia trailed behind most of the country in 2008 in offering students a chance for success. It's now No. 7, the nation’s most improved in that time.

Denver Public Schools board members voted unanimously Thursday to require all district schools to provide at least one all-gender bathroom. It won’t necessarily require new construction, since most schools have a single-stall restroom for faculty that could be opened to…

Michigan should invest more in low-income students, rural students and vulnerable students rather than focus on increasing across-the-board, per-student funding, a nonpartisan research and education advocacy group announced in its latest report on Thursday. The Education Trust-Midwest’s new report says…

In a bid to reclaim district buildings so he can expand the school system, Newark’s superintendent wants to boot a charter school from its rented space and potentially to take back properties that his predecessor sold. The district plans to…

As most students at the school are leaving, a second wave trickles in. They're part of a public school experiment: evening classes. The flex students are on the same track as their daytime peers.

A new 41-country study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development finds that students’ career expectations are stuck in the last century.

In a case with potentially profound implications, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready to invalidate a provision of the Montana state constitution that bars aid to religious schools. A decision like that would work a sea change in…