New MLA Handbook seeks to make citing sources from a variety of media easier and more commonsensical.

Many academics spend their time telling students not to use Wikipedia in their coursework, but one university has taken a different approach.

As high school seniors endure the grueling springtime ritual of college admission decisions, the state auditor on Tuesday released a report affirming the frustrations of many California families:

Could September see the delivery of the second historic international climate change deal in less than 12 months?

The most common grade is A -- at all kinds of colleges. But while grade point averages are increasing at four-year institutions, that's not the case at community colleges.

Evidence that Australia's Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record has renewed calls for the UN to list it as "in-danger".

University of Maryland says it will not release records related to a study linking a specialty chocolate milk to faster concussion recovery until an internal board has completed a review of the issue ...

A year ago, Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, moved to revoke the tenure of and fire a controversial professor for statements he made about a graduate instructor, with her name, on his blog.

About 90 kindergartners and first-graders at Portland Elementary could graduate high school with as much as $5,000 to put toward higher education, thanks to a new college fund announced Monday.

Accreditor approves Purdue's new competency-based bachelor's degree, which blends technical disciplines with the humanities ....