More Students Taking On Burden Of College Tuition
The responsibility of paying for college is shifting; it's falling more now on students and their families, as state funding declines.
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The responsibility of paying for college is shifting; it's falling more now on students and their families, as state funding declines.
With orange ribbons and quiet reflection, the University of Texas at Dallas community today paused to remember two men who died Saturday working to build their campus.
Although more than half the states are now exempt from the toughest requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind" education law, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said his goal remains to help Congress fix the law, not to sidestep the stalled overhaul effort.
A science teacher from the Eagle Mountain-Saginaw Independent School District has been accused of having an improper relationship with a male student.
Helicopter parents, impatient trustees, overworked professors, entitled athletics boosters and deeply partisan lawmakers with little cash to spare. It's enough to make people wonder why anyone would want the job of college president.
Teenagers aged 13 to 17 are more likely to start smoking cigarettes or weed on an average day in June and July than any other month in the year, according to study results.
Teachers and parents say they don't know why Texas public schools have the lowest percentage of special education students of any state in the country.
Fire damaged the Creative Arts Theatre & School in Arlington on Wednesday. Flames actually destroyed the stage area where kids perform at the children's community theater.
According to a new study, one-fourth of teens admitted to having sent a sext, and 76.2 percent of teens who were asked to send a sext admitted to having had sexual intercourse.
Former Argyle school board member and current middle school principal Wendee Long has been indicted for allegedly making a video recording inside a high school girl's locker room back in February.
Disciplining children with physical punishment such as spanking, shoving or slapping may raise their risk for developing mental health problems when they get older, new research suggests.
Early Monday morning Mike Miles told CBS 11 News he's excited to get to work at the Dallas ISD. The school districts new superintendent arrived at DISD headquarters around 6 a.m. for his first "official" day of work.
Interested in free school supplies for your child? Learn about Dallas's Back to School Fest on August 2 and how to register for it.
Thousands of North Texans are painfully familiar with the issue of student loan debt. Now, students drowning in debt at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) are getting some extra attention.
Hundreds of school districts across the state have been complaining about the new State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) test, but some business leaders continue to defend it.