All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 20 2019 // In the dreary archives of a Newark, New Jersey, courthouse, Ronald Motley found a treasure map.It was an evidence log, a detailed inventory of documents and other exhibits that had been used in an injured worker’s...
Dec 17 2019 // A lawsuit filed by a Dartmouth College student against the school who was seriously injured during baseball practice has been settled, the college said Monday.Last year, Colton French said in federal court documents that...
Dec 10 2019 // The University of Oklahoma is asking to be dismissed from a sexual assault lawsuit against a former OU vice president.The motion filed Tuesday says the university is immune from the claims by Levi Hilliard that allege...
Dec 6 2019 // A woman who says she was kicked out of a North Carolina nursing school a month before graduation in retaliation for accusing a supervisor of sexual harassment is suing in a case supported by the Time’s Up movement...
Dec 2 2019 // A Kentucky school district plans to sue electronic cigarette companies for creating what it says is an epidemic of nicotine addiction affecting student health and school learning environments. News outlets report the...
Nov 18 2019 // The workforce is faced with a generation gap. Baby boomers are retiring at the rate of 10,000 per day. Generation X and millennials each have a smaller pool of people than baby boomers. Generation Z is now the largest...
Nov 18 2019 // A Southern California school district will pay $28.5 million in damages after a boy with special needs was hit by a car and severely injured while under the supervision of school personnel, attorneys said.A judge...
Nov 13 2019 // What’s in a name?In one case, a new name – one with all the sex appeal that “insurance” can add to a title – has people like Framroze Virjee, president of California State University Fullerton,...
Nov 13 2019 // Fire rescue officials say a half dozen elementary school students in Florida suffered minor injuries when the school bus they were in was involved in a crash with a car.Orange County Fire Rescue tweeted Monday morning that...
Nov 12 2019 // Picturesque, and at times, worrisome.The Muskingum University dam in OHio holds back what locals call “College Lake” on the campus of the private liberal arts college. Perched directly over the inlet to the...
Nov 8 2019 // A Southern California school district will pay $28.5 million in damages after a boy with special needs was hit by a car and severely injured while under the supervision of school personnel, attorneys said.A judge...
Nov 7 2019 // Two-thirds of Texas registered voters believe climate change is happening, but their urgency about it varies considerably, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.Less than a quarter of voters —...
Nov 6 2019 // New legislation in Oklahoma that allows law enforcement to use cameras on school buses to track down drivers who illegally pass stopped buses went into effect on Nov. 1.House Bill 1926, by Rep. Dell Kerbs (R-Shawnee) and...
Nov 5 2019 // The San Francisco startup that invented the groundbreaking Juul e-cigarette had a central goal during its development: captivating users with the first hit.The company had concluded that consumers had largely rejected...
Oct 28 2019 // Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies.In states where medical marijuana is legal, students...
Oct 28 2019 // The University of Louisville Athletic Association will pay Papa John’s founder John Schnatter $9.5 million over 51/2 years in a settlement to terminate the pizza chain’s naming rights to Cardinal Stadium.The...
Oct 25 2019 // A Miami university bridge that collapsed and killed six people last year showed significant design errors and should have been more carefully monitored by the state government because of the project’s complexity,...
Oct 18 2019 // The Waukee, Iowa, school district has settled the last of three lawsuits filed by former employees who alleged they were retaliated against for exposing wrongdoing by the district’s former chief operating officer.The...
Oct 15 2019 // A new research project getting under way around Tuscaloosa aims to document how people react to severe weather.The University of Alabama says research sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and...
Oct 11 2019 // The University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM) will create an Endowed Chair in Risk Management and Insurance position in the College of Business and Social Sciences with $585,000 in funding that stems from the dissolution of...