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By Julie Schmit, USA TODAY

By TAMAR LEWIN - After the collapse of the emirate’s economy, American schools’ outposts there are having trouble attracting enough students to survive.

 

The abolition of GCSEs and a return to the leaving certificate of the 1950s would stop the academic rot, writes Ken Boston.

By SAM DILLON - The Department of Education, preparing to give hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, estimated how long it should take each state to prepare its proposal: 681 hours.

Two students collected 217 samples they encountered daily and found mislabeled food and at least one surprise: hot dogs actually made of beef.

Crowded classrooms mean fewer student needs are met, they say

Gov. David Paterson is calling on school districts to dip into their multimillion-dollar reserve accounts to soften the blow of budget cuts.

Rank 2009 among the most challenging years for Rhode Island's three public colleges. Record-high enrollments, big jumps in tuition and fees and diminished state support made 2009 a tough one for public higher education.

The title of the blue, orange and white artwork -- a combination of paint and broken glass on canvas -- is "I Will Survive."

For more than 120 years, Bryn Athyn College was content in its role as one of the smallest schools in the nation.

Yemeni University students are dependent on handouts sold by the professors as reference materials rather than other learning materials such as books or internet websites, says a recent survey on university education.

Florida is taking part in a high-stakes competition with the other 49 states to bring up to $700 million in national education funding to the state.

Idalia Fernandez announced Tuesday she will resign from the position she has held since 2007.

Mr. Fischer led Baltimore to become the first large American city to integrate its public schools and brought reform to Teachers College of Columbia University as its dean and president.

School mergers might divide neighbors or drain the life out of towns left without schools, but they don't hurt students, new University of Northern Iowa research shows.