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The Los Angeles Unified School District announced the move to parents after two teachers at Miramonte Elementary School were arrested last week on accusations of sexual abuse.

In academia, questions are left unanswered and nothing gets done. That is how it should be.

Some schools are giving students the option of designing their own major.

What rules, if any, do you think should govern how companies collect and use personal and aggregate data?

How did The New York Times characterize the 2012 Super Bowl ads?

Can you use context clues to find the best antonym for the word "crystallized"?

On Feb. 7, 1984, the Challenger space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk during the STS-41B mission.

Martha C. Merrill, dean of admission and financial aid at Connecticut College, advises against a senior slide, no matter how much you may feel you have earned it.

When a college education is critical in today’s economy, a national discussion on how to make public institutions more affordable is long overdue.

Pedro Noguera resigned from the State University of New York Board of Trustees, citing concerns that the institution, which authorizes charter schools, was pursuing a political agenda to increase the number of charters, rather than a mission to develop experimental schools. In an open letter, he explains his decision to step down, writing, "Whether it was intended or not, in many cases charter schools are contributing to a more inequitable educational playing field."

Fifty-five high school students from the five boroughs and Westchester County were quizzed on Saturday about their knowledge of the brain. When the New York City Brain Bee at Columbia University was done, Danling Chen, a junior at Staten Island Technical High School, pulled off a win by correctly naming the chemical energy source of cells. The answer: ATP.

Around this time last year, we published a post called "100 Ways to Celebrate the 100th Day of School With The Times." To go with it this year, as the 100th day of school rolls around for many, we've created a crossword on the same theme.

Grading instructions with sample answers suggest that the bar to pass the New York State English Regents exam is surprisingly low.

International students make up a higher percentage of incoming students at state schools than in the past, and pay a disproportionate amount of tuition.

Should the government get tough to protect unpaid interns, or are internships a win-win?

Smith College has developed two programs through its Center for Work and Life to help students engage more effectively on campus and teach valuable skills for life after college.

At the University of Washington, 18 percent of the freshmen are foreigners, and each pays about three times as much as students from Washington State.

Student Opinion | Tell us how you feel about spending time by yourself.

6 Q's About the News | What was the final score of the Super Bowl?

Can you find the probability that recent tests for cesium in rice were negative, if given the percentage of farms that tested positive, the number of farms tested and the number whose crops exceeded the current safety level of radiation in food?