Michelle Obama is spreading some holiday cheer, surprising students and teachers of an elementary school in Washington with a gift of $100,000, computers and a new basketball court courtesy of TV host Ellen DeGeneres.
The principal's voice piped through the PA system at Wilbur Cross High School with a startling announcement.
When Angela Walker went through her son's school folder, she was shocked to find what the fifth grader had been working on in class.
If House Republicans thought a panel of legal experts opining upon the impeachment for eight hours might drag Wednesday, they underestimated Professor Pamela Karlan.
In 2019, Impact Your World told you about dozens of people and nonprofits making a difference in their communities -- from those fighting to stop rainforest loss and bird extinction to setting up safe spaces for sex-trafficking victims.
Along a short hallway on the upper floor of Decatur Presbyterian Church in Atlanta, a blue banner stretches across the wall, packed with scrawled messages of thanks and words swelling with appreciation.
An elementary school art lesson meant to encourage students to explore activism resulted in a First Amendment violation when the teacher censored students' Black Lives Matter posters, the ACLU claims.
In a small overcrowded classroom in Pwani village, rural Kenya, Peter Tabichi teaches his students science.
Two floors beneath the headquarters of Iraqi Military Intelligence, at the end of a red-carpeted corridor, two doors swing open to reveal a museum of cold, calculated and deliberate horror.
At Syracuse University's wellness center, it's hard to find a clear path these days to even take a step. Students often cover nearly every inch of the entry hall -- sitting on the floor, talking, eating meals, doing homework, sometimes spending the night.
Thousands of Indiana teachers are turning the state Capitol into a sea of red as they demand better pay and more funding for public schools.
A Maryland high school teacher is facing assault charges following a fight with a 17-year-old student that was caught on camera, according to court documents.
The scenario played out in Kaitlin Holt's mind many times before a 16-year-old student shot himself after killing two classmates and wounding three others at Saugus High School in Southern California.
The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school.
The impact of impeachment faces a test on Tuesday as Kentucky voters head to the polls to select their next governor.
A high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave in California after he wore blackface to school on Halloween, according to the Milpitas Unified School District.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that he found he "was absolutely and completely at ease with death" after doctors told him in 2015 that his cancer had spread to his brain.
Some 300,000 Chicago students returned to their schools Friday after an 11-day teachers' strike ended with a deal that will make
More than 25,000 Chicago teachers will return to school on Friday after an 11-day strike in the nation's third-largest school system ended, with a tentative deal ensuring millions of dollars to reduce class sizes and bring more nurses and social workers on campuses.
A former high school principal in Boca Raton, Florida, was fired on Wednesday as a result of emails he sent to a student's parent in April 2018 that appeared to cast doubt on the historical truth of the Holocaust.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday blamed Washington overreach, high-paid school administrators and layers of bureaucracy for American students' lower scores on the Nation's Report Card, pointing to the scores as proof that the United States
The Chicago Teachers Union believes it has reached a tentative agreement, and says it is prepared to vote on it Wednesday night if Mayor Lori Lightfoot and officials agree to make up the instructional days lost during the strike.
Turns out, Jimmy Carter will be teaching Sunday school in Plains, Georgia, this weekend.
Just two weeks shy of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an election in the east German state of Thuringia has highlighted the deep divisions still gripping the country.
