Boston Globe

Since World War II, if not before, it has been assumed that children were more likely to graduate from college than their parents. Now, those generational gains appear to have stalled.

With the numbers of homeless across the state on the rise, local school officials are scrambling to provide services and absorb costs for an expected surge in homeless students.

The five-year legal battle over the Lowell school district's firing of three teachers for failing an English fluency test goes on

It's an age-old predicament: Caffeine-fueled college students cramming for exams and writing papers until the crack of dawn, then skipping or snoozing through classes. Sleep deprivation has long been considered a rite of passage, a point of pride even.

Some parents will need to look beyond the school buildings targeted for closure or consolidation in order to see the ambitious goals of Boston's school superintendent.

THERE ARE conflicting reports about the state of the public education system in Massachusetts. National data indicate that students are achieving at the highest levels in the country, yet the state Department of Education says that one out of every two public schools in the Commonwealth "needs improvement," and 75 percent of the middle schools and 277 public schools need

OXFORD, Miss. - Two generations ago, bullets flew and tear gas canisters exploded among the magnolias as segregationists fought federal authorities over the court-ordered admission of the first black student to the University of Mississippi.

Walk-to-school movement afoot across Mass.
NEWTON - They gathered on the corner with their book bags and lunch boxes, more than a dozen children chatting and kicking leaves as they waited for their trip to school.

The appointment of a "21st Century Skills Task Force," which will review curriculum frameworks on which the MCAS tests are based, raises the question of what the governor expects of schools.

WATERBURY, Conn. - Waterbury officials are expanding a program that requires the parents of chronically truant public school students to appear before a probate judge.

THE GREATEST SIN that any Red Sox owner can commit is to allow a star player to move to New York. From Babe Ruth to Johnny Damon, these defections are greeted with howls of outrage from the fans and columnists of Red Sox Nation

The state's two-year effort to create universal access to preschool has so far provided more than 100 programs with new classroom materials, computers, or teacher bonuses but has done little to expand access, according to a report being released today.

Local officials are looking for ways to deal with the aging Franklin High School, but say they don't believe the town's taxpayers would be able to foot the entire bill for a proposed $100 million renovation or a $130 million new high school.

Amherst College's freshman orientation is an eight-day extravaganza, an array of activities from mountain hikes and whitewater rafting to cooking and ballroom dancing. Tufts University's six-day calendar of events runs 35 pages, a smorgasbord of coffee klatches, carnivals, and scavenger hunts.