Youth & Education

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is looking for momentum as Republicans caucus and vote in three states on Tuesday: Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. And dissatisfaction with front-runner Mitt Romney in Missouri could point to a potential opportunity for President Obama in the fall.

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A teacher's aide at P.S. 243 in Crown Heights was arrested by the F.B.I. Monday night on charges that he sexually abused and videotaped students at the school, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case.

Application deadlines for financial aid like grants, scholarships and student loans are just around the corner. But many students may need help getting their paperwork in order. Host Michel Martin speaks with Adrianna Badillo. She's the director of Gear-Up, a program designed to guide low-income students into higher education.

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The parade and tribute to the Giants' Super Bowl victory is likely to draw thousands of students -- and maybe a few teachers? -- to the celebration in Lower Manhattan, and though every day of school is important, it will be difficult for many to resist.

Some schools are giving students the option of designing their own major.

What rules, if any, do you think should govern how companies collect and use personal and aggregate data?

How did The New York Times characterize the 2012 Super Bowl ads?

Can you use context clues to find the best antonym for the word "crystallized"?

On Feb. 7, 1984, the Challenger space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk during the STS-41B mission.

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The entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates, the Los Angeles school superintendent said Monday night.

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The Los Angeles Unified School District announced the move to parents after two teachers at Miramonte Elementary School were arrested last week on accusations of sexually abusing children.

This word has appeared in one New York Times article in the past year.

Tired of tuition increases within the cash-strapped University of California system, a group of students has suggested eliminating tuition entirely. Instead, they propose graduates pay the system a percentage of their income over the subsequent 20 years.

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In academia, questions are left unanswered and nothing gets done. That is how it should be.

Around this time last year, we published a post called "100 Ways to Celebrate the 100th Day of School With The Times." To go with it this year, as the 100th day of school rolls around for many, we've created a crossword on the same theme.

Martha C. Merrill, dean of admission and financial aid at Connecticut College, advises against a senior slide, no matter how much you may feel you have earned it.

The Chester Upland School District — a small, mostly minority district outside Philadelphia — is on the verge of going broke. State budget cuts and mismanagement by both local and state leadership have put the district in such financial straits that teachers and some other employees agreed last month to work without pay for the rest of the school year. A judge ordered the state to advance Chester Upland $3 million, but that will only keep the schools open for a few weeks.

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International students make up a higher percentage of incoming students at state schools than in the past, and pay a disproportionate amount of tuition.

Pedro Noguera resigned from the State University of New York Board of Trustees, citing concerns that the institution, which authorizes charter schools, was pursuing a political agenda to increase the number of charters, rather than a mission to develop experimental schools. In an open letter, he explains his decision to step down, writing, "Whether it was intended or not, in many cases charter schools are contributing to a more inequitable educational playing field."