Education

A North Dakota school board has nixed reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before each meeting — deciding it didn’t align with the district’s values. The Fargo School Board voted 7-2...

WASHINGTON — Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution, joining Justice Neil Gorsuch at a...

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Native Americans in Massachusetts are calling for a boycott of a popular living history museum featuring Colonial reenactors portraying life in Plymouth, the famous English settlement founded...

The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the country, recommended a book about two cheerleaders who protest by taking a knee during the national anthem. The reading suggestion...

Angel Hope looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges. But on this...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The prosecutor seeking to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case: terrifying witness accounts;...

A North Carolina school district has taken a controversial step to increase security in the wake of recent school shootings that have happened across the country. On Friday, Madison County...

Down a sandy, unpaved road in rural Kandahar province, children curiously peer out from the colourful, rusted metal gates of their fortress-like mud homes that stand tall against a barren...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are expected to walk through the still blood-spattered rooms of Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Girl Scout and avid reader. A trombone player who loved movies and basketball. A straight-A student who loved Irish dance and was looking forward to...