The secret to learning from a robot, as discovered by two Japanese researchers, is to have it appear weak and feeble: Shizuko Matsuzoe and Fumihide Tanaka at the Universit...

Is college worth the cost? Earlier this we...  ...University released a report about how education levels impact employment prospects:...  ...1.6 million. Those with some college education or an Associate’s degree have recovered...

If you think about it…school really only needs to teach people how to use Google. bit.ly/MrllJe @imadepoopstoday— Team Twaggies (@twaggies) August 7, 2012...

Can we boost a teacher's academic...  ...it away if they fail. Thanks to education reformers such as former D.C. schools chancellor...

Got a C+ in chemistry? Most people would tell you to try and study harder nex time, but not in this case: a high school student and his mom are suing the school district over a C+ grade he g...

Straight A's and a 4.50 GPA, accepted to Stanford with an engineering internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to boot but that's not enough for some parents. No, they wanted their dau...

Many students can't wait to be don...  ...l and took menial jobs to pay for the education and just made a point of getting more degrees and...

Randall Munroe knows how hard it is these days to select your college major. He wrote a little song about it ...well, he wrote a comic about it that you can sing to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-...

Passing the national exam is so competitive in China that students resort to finding an edge - any edge - that can help them pass. This photo, purportedly of high schoolers given "amino acid"...

Ah, kindergarten. You may remember it as a "happy land of building blocks and singalongs," but not anymore. In this interesting article over at The Boston Globe, Patti Hartigan...