All the headlines from our Education Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 26 2013 // In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They’re also meeting the armed school resource officer who will be...
Aug 22 2013 // The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) has appointed Richard “Gordy” Bunch, president and CEO of The Woodlands Financial Group, to its Insurance and Risk Management Center’s Advisory Council serving the...
Aug 22 2013 // Electronic Arts Inc. won a court ruling that puts on hold claims accusing the company of profiting from using likenesses of college athletes in its video games.The ruling by a federal appeals court in San Francisco will...
Aug 20 2013 // In one football practice, some players may take several hits, while others take a few big blows.For coaches and trainers, keeping track of it all can be difficult. “A lot of times when we’re on the field,...
Aug 19 2013 // Pennsylvania State University agreed to settle the first of 31 suits filed in the sex-abuse scandal involving ex-football coach Jerry Sandusky, with about 25 more set to settle, lawyers in the resolved case said.The...
Aug 18 2013 // A ruling by a Florida appeals court on Friday has reduced a $10 million damage award to $200,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
Aug 16 2013 // The College of Business at Colorado State University is a step closer to launching a program to train students in the insurance and risk management fields thanks to a $150,000 gift from the IMA Foundation.The Enterprise...
Aug 8 2013 // An Arkansas school district that trained more than 20 teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns on campus through a program that faces questions over its legality was wrong to make secret the names of the employees,...
Aug 6 2013 // West Virginia University has reduced its workers’ compensation costs by about $600,000 and is looking for more ways to save money.WVU Office of Risk Management head Mike Ganso tells The Dominion Post that the effort...
Aug 2 2013 // Earthquakes never occur when needed so a team led by Johns Hopkins structural engineers is shaking up a building themselves in the name of science and safety.Using massive moving platforms and an array of sensors and...
Aug 1 2013 // The University of Central Oklahoma has been selected as a co-host of the 2014 National Tornado Summit.The summit serves as a forum for national and state experts to meet and recommend new policies to improve emergency...
Jul 30 2013 // A former student accused of shooting his roommate in an off-campus apartment has sued the University of Southern Mississippi, alleging that it violated his rights by expelling him and tampering with his files. According to...
Jul 30 2013 // Property insurance premiums have skyrocketed for Pine Belt school districts. Some have had problems just finding a company to insure them.Lamar County School District Superintendent Ben Burnett told the Hattiesburg...
Jul 29 2013 // Ex-Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier and two other former officials will be in a court hearing today on whether they must stand trial for hiding information tied to the Jerry Sandusky sexual-abuse...
Jul 23 2013 // Dartmouth College and the University of Southern California are under investigation by the U.S. Education Department for their responses to campus sexual harassment and misconduct.The department’s Office for Civil...
Jul 22 2013 // A tornado packing 110 mph winds hit Ursuline College in northeast Ohio early on July 20, collapsing a wall of the school’s athletic center and damaging other buildings but causing no injuries, officials said.The EF1...
Jul 18 2013 // After a massive fertilizer plant explosion devastated the rural town of West in April, local teachers and administrators did what they could to help the community cope with a disaster that killed 15 people and wrecked...
Jul 16 2013 // The University of Washington will pay $15.2 million in a medical malpractice judgment after a mistake caused a debilitating brain damage to a girl in 2008.The sum ordered a King County judge is one of the largest medical...
Jul 15 2013 // Pennsylvania State University said it approved settlement offers to some victims of Jerry Sandusky, the former assistant football coach convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys.The offers will be made to some people who made...
Jul 2 2013 // The Social Security numbers of about 4,500 past and present Montana State University employees may have been accessible to others because of a computer virus, school officials said.The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported that...