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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The movement to raise the minimum wage across the U.S. gained ground Wednesday with the huge University of California system anno...

LONDON (AP) — A British university disclosed Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Suspended Subway pitchman Jared Fogle's foundation, which encourages children to avoid the same obesity he experienced in college,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is trying again to pass a GOP-led rewrite of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law, with conservatives aiming to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama dearly wanted to get the government in the business of rating colleges and universities based on value and af...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that lab...

The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not. So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — While the Common Core education standards provoked political backlash and testing boycotts around the country this year, the stat...

BEIJING (AP) — Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A 21st-birthday party thrown by a group of visiting Irish college students turned tragic early Tuesday when the fourth-floor b...

DALLAS (AP) — James Boulware told family members that he had foreseen a deadly Japanese tsunami and the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting in his d...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — High school students in northwest Washington grieved two classmates who were killed when an SUV jumped a curb and plowed into...

WASHINGTON (AP) — James Billington, the librarian of Congress who has led the world's largest library for nearly three decades and brought it into the...

“Dancing feels awesome.” “It makes me feel active and healthy, and it’s a great way toget yourself out there.” “I just love it so much!” These are jus...

Imagine 1,000 pieces of art inone exhibit venue. No, it’s not the Carnegie Museum of Art.Try the Barnes & Noble store in CranberryTownship where in Ma...

A group of teachers from EvansCity Middle School ran the half-marathonin this year’s Pittsburgh Marathonin honor of someone they admire. Principal Mar...

Now more than ever, there is agreat deal of focus on healthy eating,especially in the face of scary obesitystatistics and a turn toward ‘clean eating....

As a health and physical education teacher, Jeremy Smail knows the discipline it takes to finish a task. It’s the same kind of attitude many U.S. Mari...