All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2018 // Investigators say 10 students and their school bus driver were injured when the vehicle was broadsided by an 18-wheeler on a Central Texas highway.The Texas Department of Public Safety says nobody was seriously hurt in the...
Oct 26 2018 // A crash between an Alabama school bus and a passenger vehicle has killed one person in the vehicle and injured 11 on the bus.State Police Trooper Cpl. Jimmy Harrell tells AL.com 31-year-old Amanda Nicole Hubbard died in...
Oct 24 2018 // Mississippi State University officials say no one was hurt by a fire in a dormitory room.The fire happened Sunday night on the third floor of Oak Hall on the Starkville campus. The university said in a news release Monday...
Oct 23 2018 // A trauma research team has developed a profile of commonalities among communities where mass shootings have occurred that includes a shortage of mental health professionals, a relative lack of socialization opportunities,...
Oct 23 2018 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday said it had ordered Transdev North America to immediately stop transporting school children in Florida in a driverless shuttle, as the testing could be putting...
Oct 23 2018 // Jurors have awarded $25 million to the parents of a University of Florida student who was run over and killed by a garbage truck near campus. The Gainesville Sun reports that an Alachua County jury awarded $12.5 million...
Oct 18 2018 // This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic.Ten years ago, CoreLogic® (at the time, EQECAT) introduced the use of global Atmosphere-Ocean-General-Circulation Models (AOGCM) for insurance-oriented assessments of...
Oct 17 2018 // An Oklahoma school bus that hydroplaned on a wet road and crashed in Central Texas last month, injuring nearly everyone on board, was traveling at an unsafe speed for the conditions, according to a Texas Department of...
Oct 16 2018 // For 35 years, Ruth D’Eredita tried to dismiss her former professor’s behavior — the way he touched her, groped her and kissed her. But last year, as dozens of women came forward to share similar encounters...
Oct 15 2018 // The Springfield, Missouri, school district has reached a settlement with a longtime secretary who claimed in a lawsuit that the district tried to fire her because of her age. The Springfield News-Leader reports the...
Oct 11 2018 // North Carolina’s public school officials expect damage from Hurricane Florence to well exceed school losses after Hurricane Matthew two years ago, a Department of Public Instruction official told the state’s...
Oct 10 2018 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has hired Boyce Morin as vice president of University Health Plans, the firm’s specialty division focusing on the design,...
Oct 9 2018 // When flood waters rise, more data helps better predict and monitor changing conditions. Soon there will be an app for that.The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Smart and Connected Communities $1.5 million grant...
Oct 4 2018 // Concussions plunged in Ivy League football after the kickoff line was moved to thwart what might be the game’s most dangerous play, according to a study published Monday.The aim of the 5-yard move was to have more...
Oct 2 2018 // West Virginia University says it has banned five fraternities from campus for at least 10 years. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports Alpha Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Sigma Kappa, Sigma Chi and Theta Chi can no...
Oct 1 2018 // Harvard, the nation’s oldest university, must go to trial to defend a lawsuit claiming it discriminates against Asian-American applicants.A Boston federal judge’s rejection Friday of requests by both sides for...
Oct 1 2018 // An industry publication recently published an article that said insurance is “the new kale” because the one-time ignored garnish today is sought after as a healthy must-have in the form of everything from...
Sep 28 2018 // Shortly after last year’s shooting massacre on the Las Vegas strip, Ohio Gov. John Kasich convened a panel to explore possible reforms to state gun laws.A Republican, Kasich wanted to be sure its members clearly...
Sep 24 2018 // An athletic trainer at a Montana high school sexually abused at least 18 student athletes decades ago under the guise of boosting their athletic performance, according to a newly filed lawsuit.The deception was aided by...
Sep 21 2018 // Want the best results out of your employees? Then be nice to them.New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to employees almost always pays off, especially when...