A study posted on HealthyToys.org last week tested about 1,500 toys for toxins. About a third registered significant hazards, with lead in 20 percent. Even zealous parents got a shock: Some items from manu...

A few years ago, my daughters and I were searching for sand crabs on a white-sand beach near Monterey. A group of sixth graders descended on us, clad in the blue trousers and pressed white shirts of their paroc...

We can now add colleges and universities to the list of victims of the financial crisis. The stock-market collapse has badly eroded endowments, forcing schools to suspend capital projects, freeze hiring, rethin...

Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers...

For more students nationwide, the grading alphabet ends at "D," as school districts eliminate policies that allow children to be given failing marks.At public schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., high school student...

Shiloh Adventure Camp's 2009 Summer Camp program during the months of June and July will be held at Long Point Park located on the Indian River Lagoon about 2 miles north of the Sebastian Inlet and South o...

Digital Publishing Corp. today announced the launch of www.NewChristianVoices.com, a new and unique online destination for Christian humor, inspiration and opinion. The non-denominational Christian humor and li...

British parents looking to see their children in a traditional Christmas play are fuming after a school decided to cancel the performance because it conflicts with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, the U.K.&#...

The explosive growth in the global population could be curbed significantly if teenage girls in the developing world were given the opportunity of completing a secondary school education, says a leading expert ...

A mother told how her daughter's 16th birthday party descended into an "absolute horror show" when about 300 people gatecrashed her luxury home after it was advertised on Facebook.   One hundred peop...