A new study suggests that people who don’t finish high school are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or dementia later on.     The study, actually conducted in F...

    Last year, the three largest beverage companies in the United States (Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Cadbury Schweppes) announced they were removing high-calorie drinks from schools–a move widely ...

They say there are no atheists on the battlefield. Some youth leaders apparently hope that extends to the digital battlefield, as well. Churches and youth groups are utilizing Halo 3, the über-popular vid...

    Everyone knows a good education is expensive. But preschool?Believe it. A year at Los Angeles’ Center for Early Education costs $15,400. Tuition for Washington D.C.’s Sidwell Friends...

With teens spending $179 billion in 2006–up 13 percent over the year before–retailers are growing increasingly enamored with youth and their oodles of uncommitted cash.     According to...

    Politicians often advocate lotteries as ways to augment funding for education, and more than half of the 42 states that run lotteries funnel lottery cash to their schools. But education gets bar...

Remember how controversial all those Harry Potter books were? Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) said the books “deeply distort Christianity in the soul before it can grow properly.&rdqu...

    Congress made some sweeping changes this month to college–aid programs, injecting new funding into federal grants and withdrawing some support from private lenders.     Congre...

    High schools, hoping to curb their students’ propensity to drink at extracurricular events, are snatching up breathalyzers in record numbers. One manufacturer reports that high school orde...

    An artificial intelligence researcher says that humans and robots could be an intimate part of our lives in the next few decades–with an emphasis on intimate.     “My fo...