Gov. Sarah Palin vowed that a McCain administration would allow all special-needs students the choice of attending private schools at public expense.

After years of skyrocketing test scores, a school in Charleston, S.C., is the subject of a fraud investigation.

Education experts say findings of relatively stable college affordability is outdated, and that colleges will be forced to raise tuition substantially because of the current economy.

The number of children entering New York City public schools gifted programs has dropped by half this year.

Barack Obama calls for a $4,000 tax credit, while John McCain would try to coax colleges to slow their rate of tuition increases.

Cardinal Edward M. Egan has criticized a plan to give an award to the Supreme Court justice Stephen G. Breyer because of the justice’s support for abortion rights.

John McCain’s vice-presidential pick has energized the handful of young women who show up to meetings of the campus Republicans at Wellesley.

With the help of the largest gift ever to the City University of New York, the school will move into a new $135 million building on Third Avenue.

Hunter’s plan to build a new school of social work has inspired welcoming reactions in East Harlem, an area that usually greets such news with loud opposition.

Many college students are enthusiastic about John McCain, but they are repeatedly outgunned by legions of young Obama backers.

SUNY Binghamton has seen a roughly 50 percent increase in applications so far this fall, largely due to its price tag, which is well below most competitive private colleges.

Pelham Memorial High School added 17 electives courses this year, allowing students to pursue specialized interests that once were relegated to after-school clubs.

Graduation rates in New Jersey and elsewhere have become a measure of the larger community outside the school and whether civil servants are doing their job.

An elaborate $80 million system that was supposed to be ready in September has been unavailable, and 21 principals have turned to a program created at a Brooklyn high school to track progress.

The woman who prosecutors determined falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape maintains her claim in a memoir.

Two former professors sued last year, claiming they had been forced out after uncovering financial and ethical wrongdoing.

More than 90,000 of New York City’s elementary school students — roughly 20 percent — missed at least a month of classes during the last school year.

The College Board unveiled a new test that it said would help prepare eighth graders for rigorous high school courses and college.

Free bikes or bike-sharing programs have cropped on campuses nationwide, aimed at reducing traffic and parking shortages on campus and improve community building.

Families of victims of the mass shootings at Virginia Tech last year met with university officials to ask questions about their response to the killings.