education issues

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Jacob Holmberg of Coudersport, Pa., was named to the SUNY New Paltz dean’s list for the spring 2024 semester. Students must earn at ...

Jordan T. Pavlock of Smethport has been named to the dean’s list in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters for outstanding scholar...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — After three basketball players were charged with raping a teammate in an apparent hazing incident, a Tennessee high school h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With his emotional plea for America to embrace some gun control, President Barack Obama on Thursday thrust the contentious issue to ...

VERONA, Va. (AP) — With the nation already on edge after the attacks in California, a teacher's lesson on Islam in Virginia's Bible Belt sparked an an...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The mother of a Sikh middle school student accused of threatening to detonate a bomb at his Texas school is asking police to d...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When it comes to assessing threats, schools in New York City and Los Angeles likely have more experience than most other districts ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation's second-largest school district shut down Tuesday after a school board member received an emailed threat that raised fe...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in which a mentally troubled young man killed 26 children and educators, ser...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. urged students, staff and faculty at his Christian school to get a permit to carry...

CHICAGO (AP) — The University of Chicago canceled all classes and activities scheduled for Monday on its main campus following an online threat of gun...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that's 10 percent black in two years, it will li...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Efforts are underway at the University of Missouri to address the racial tensions that led to demonstrations by students, a strik...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty was arrested Wednesday, authorities sai...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — There was no outward warning that a quiet 18-year-old would burst into a university classroom and slash fellow students over a di...

MERCED, Calif. (AP) — A construction worker who ran into a California university classroom to break up what he thought was a fight was hailed as a her...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina sheriff says he acted swiftly but carefully in firing a school resource officer caught on video flipping a disr...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a steady string of mass shootings and a revival of the political fight over gun control, Americans are slightly more likely th...

DALLAS (AP) — The recent arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a possible bomb led to widespread ridicule of...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amid the bloodbaths of 21st-century America, you might think that there would be a lot of research into the causes of gun violence, an...