Sophisticated software holds promise for making the grading of student essays more efficient — and it wouldn’t entirely replace human teachers.

Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with “value.”

Massively open online courses, or MOOCs, do not currently lead to any widely recognized credential.

UN's vision for one deal to save the Earth is in peril as countries bicker over phrasing of clauses and key terms in the draft text

LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm. Within the last week, these three companies reported password leaks affecting millions of users ...

It wasn’t your typical class, with half the students convicted felons and the other half honors undergrads. See what brought this unlikely group together.

Pratibha Patil wakes to the sound of trumpets and horse-backed riders in the cobbled courtyard of her magnificent palace in New Delhi, she walks on a treadmill, prays at her private

The various legislative proposals designed to keep student-loan interest rates from doubling in July are now so loaded to the gunwales with ifs, ands, or buts that the whole boat is in danger of sinking.

Female buyers are seen as a huge growth market for the motorcycle industry, which has been in a sales slump for three years.

Prepaid college tuition plans are no longer the surefire solution they once seemed to runaway tuition costs.