Education

83.2 percent of high school seniors graduated in 2018, the state's highest graduation rate on record, state officials said Tuesday. While racial gaps narrowed, they remained wide.

As students around the globe participate in Earth Day, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds 55 percent of teachers don't teach or talk about climate change and 46 percent of parents haven't discussed it with their kids.

"We're changed," said Dawn Anna, whose daughter was among the students killed at the school in 1999. "Our hearts have giant holes in them. But our hearts are bigger than they were 20 years ago."

Since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, a generation of American children has learned how to hide from a potential shooter. But there's little data on what kinds of drills work best.

The study tracked thousands of students who experienced housing instability while in grades 9-12, and found they were less likely to graduate, got lower scores on college placement tests and were less likely to take advance placement or college-credit classes.

Lauren Cartaya and her older brother, Zach, were at Columbine High School in 1999 when two students opened fire. At StoryCorps, they remember that day and discuss the effect it has had on their lives.

A researcher from the University of Minnesota has identified a virus associated with a disease that can cause sudden paralysis in children.

Programs are developing ways to help students get hands-on experience and a better shot at jobs or internships after school.

APM Reports documentary "Old Idea, New Economy: Rediscovering Apprenticeships."

Giannulli and Loughlin are accused of paying $500,000 in bribes arranged by admissions consultant Rick Singer to get their daughters admitted to USC as crew recruits, despite not being rowers.

A divide is forming -- between those who have student debt and those who do not. What does it mean for the future?

A Wisconsin middle school gym teacher has been placed on indefinite leave while district officials look into claims that she separated students in one class by race and assigned the black children to research games that enslaved children played.

Economists Louis Johnston and Chris Farrell talk about money, work and life.

College students from 23 universities competed for a national title in the growing sport of drone racing.

What was once limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed into so-called essay mills on the Internet, becoming a global industry.

"Full House" star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and 14 other parents were hit Tuesday with a new money laundering charge in the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme.

The "Desperate Housewives" star and the other parents will admit to charges in the scheme, which authorities say involved rigging standardized test scores and bribing coaches at such prestigious schools as Yale and Georgetown.

For-profit Argosy University once trained roughly a fifth of Minnesota's licensed psychologists. Its sudden closing has left students stranded and local mental health leaders worried about how to meet an already widening demand for psychologists in Minnesota.

Since he was sentenced for assault three years ago, Christian Burch has edited the prison newspaper, tutored fellow inmates and sold graphite portraits he drew while earning an art certificate.