A recent poll from the Associated Press found about half of Americans feel public schools are doing only a “fair” to “poor” job of educating the nation’s kids. About three-fourths ...

Everyone knows boys are smarter than girls when it comes to math. Right? Well, not so fast. Apparently no one told today’s girls.Research recently published in the journal Science suggests that whatever g...

More and more youth are attending high school online, experts say. In fact, about 506,000 students took public school classes using the Internet or two-way video during the 2004-05 school year, according to the...

They say college often is wasted on the young. Now some high schools are encouraging graduating students to take a year off before plunging into another four years of school. Earlier this year, schools in seven...

GodTube, the evangelical Christian answer to the omnipresent video-sharing site YouTube, recently snagged a $30 million investment from London’s GLG Partners, bringing the site’s overall value to ab...

So texting still probably isn’t as dangerous as, say, cliff diving. Still, the popular communication pastime is risky in its own way: According to Britain’s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, texti...

Nathan Schwartz, 20, trumped a pack of 15,000 contestants and won this year’s Texting Championship in New York City, a competition sponsored by cell phone manufacturer LG.Contestants had to type messages ...

The city of Lynwood, Ill.—a suburb of Chicago—has a message for its citizens: Pull your pants up.Lynwood recently declared anyone who shows more than three inches of underwear in public is in viol...

With gasoline now $4 a gallon in most parts of the country, many American teens have forsaken the time-honored pastime of cruising.Police officers say they see more teens hanging out at malls and movie theaters...

With the price of gas and food skyrocketing, you’d think it’d be nice to hear about something going down in cost. Well, yeah—if that “something” wasn’t us.The Environmental ...