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The No Child Left Behind education law offered the promise of improved schools and better prepared students in a competitive world. Yet after a decade on the books, President George W. Bush's most hyped domestic accomplishment has become a symbol to many of federal overreach and Congress' inability to fix something that's clearly flawed.

Dozens of protesters were arrested on the campus of UC Berkeley, where university police moved in to break up an Occupy Berkeley encampment.

The study found that removing soda only prompted students to buy sports drinks and other sugar-laden beverages instead.

Education writers rarely examine high school sports, but something is happening there that might help pull our schools out of the doldrums.
In the last school year, a new national survey found that 7.7 million boys and girls took part in high school sports. This is 55.5 percent of all students, according to the report from the National Federation of State High School Associations, and the 22nd straight year that participation had increased.

More and more schools are seeing the benefits of equipping their students with tablet computers.

Stores are trying everything they can think of to disguise the fact that you're going to pay more for clothes this fall.

Ah, back-to-school season. The rustling of leaves, the squeak of new sneakers, the reassuring sound of chalk on a blackboard. Wait, does anyone still use chalk? And if they do, is it emitting some sort of toxic dust that's dooming our children to a life of bad health and environmental despair?

Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers....

A building at Boston College has been evacuated after reports of a chemical explosion inside a classroom.

Schools are responding to concerns that high-stakes testing and competition for college have fueled a grind that does little to raise achievement.