More students from state schools
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The proportion of UK undergraduates from state schools has risen, official figures show.
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Children make more progress in England's grammar schools than in comprehensives, figures show.
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Several schools have sharply increased tuition to match colleges they consider their rivals, while also providing more financial assistance.
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Parents worried about secondary school places are paying for extra tuition, says report.
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A technology known as an audience response system is spreading to public and private schools across the country.
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The truancy rate of pupils in England's secondary schools has increased again this year, according to government figures.
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The number of secondary pupils in England playing truant has gone up 40% over the past five years.
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By Nicole Stricker, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 28--School cooks, janitors and bus drivers got a little legislative  love Tuesday when they were added to the public education funding bonanza.
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Elementary and middle schoolers posted solid gains in math and more modest improvements in reading in national test results released Tuesday.
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Hoping to prevent the loss of children, a few schools have begun monitoring student movements using technology similar to that used to track livestock and retail shipments.
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Pupils at four primary schools are being given the choice of starting lessons at different times of the day.
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Half a million American children take classes online, and many are attending virtual public schools that are competing with local districts for public funding.
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A growing number of endowments at the nationâs independent schools have become so big that trustees have hired full-time money managers.
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More people want to be students in the UK this year - with a 78.8% increase among the new EU states.
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For years some of the more competitive girls' basketball teams in the state have come out of the Merrimack Valley Conference.
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By Pete Bosak, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.  Jun.
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The proportion of primary school pupils with English as a second language has risen by 73% in a decade.