Educators in the United States have long discussed increasing the instructional time offered in public schools, either by shortening summer vacation, offering classes on Saturday mornings, adding time to the school day — or by a combination of the three. A common complaint is that the public ...

Some six years after the NCAA warned members to get serious about graduating student-athletes or lose scholarships and face a postseason ban, here's the list of Division I schools that have been sent to sit in the corner at tournament time: Centenary. If Education ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men's college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn't go over well with the NCAA and coaches preparing for ...

President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to "a well-rounded education," Education Secretary Arne Duncan says. Reading and math are important, but so are social studies, science, the arts and recess, Duncan said Monday ...