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Teachers in the Hamtramck school district have to take their smoke breaks off school property, even after hours.

Reading and math scores are rising for black students across the country, but not enough to close the gap between them and their better-scoring white peers, an Education Department report released Tuesday found.

Black-white student achievement gaps in reading and math are smaller in Virginia than in Maryland, according to a federal analysis released today that illuminates how states compare on a key measure of racial academic disparities.

A FAILURE to collect information about the cause of death in those rare cases when an overseas student dies in Australia leaves educational institutions exposed to media speculation and damaged reputations, an expert warns.

CQU, once the most aggressive player in the degrees for visas market, is running out of cash due to a change in skilled migration rules

The achievement gap between America's black and white students is now widest in Northern and Midwestern states, according to the federal data.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor tells senators that her oft-criticized comment was meant 'to inspire' minority lawyers and law students. 'I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judging,' she says.

In a move seemingly engineered by the 'leadership' of the failed No On 8 campaign (most notably Equality California), a group of civil rights organizations released a joint statement Monday not-so-subtly stating that 2012 will be the year they go back to the ballot to repeal Prop 8. The move angered many in the LGBT community, where the overwhelming majority of people believe that the issue should be back on the ballot in 2010.

(Kansas State University) Sparsely stocked libraries, scarce and expensive software, and even a lack of materials in students' native languages are barriers to training plant pathologists in resource-poor regions.

Minnesota has always been a progressive place. I was excited to find the article, Minnesota Adult Students Present Before Audience, on a blog created by CSD, Communications Service for the Deaf. In June, CSD hosted the first annual Student Profile night in Minnesota's Deaf Adult Education program. It sounds like the evening was resounding success. Enrollment in the class includes adults from countries like Zimbabwe, Romania and China, and the U.S. All come from various educational backgrounds. While enrolling in Adult Basic Education (ABE) classes can be daunting, the one characteristic shared by each student is their fearless pursuit in learning the English language. Students used technology to present their personal stories: the Internet, Publisher, PowerPoint, and video equipment. It was the first time in front of an audience for many of them. ?Technology in the classroom attracts learners to classes to build skills in reading, writing, and ASL,? said ABE Lead Teacher Jessaly