Abilene ISD missed the state's yearly performance marks on reading and math. The Texas Education Agency's "Adequate Yearly Progress" progress is measured on TAKS scores, graduation rates and attendance.

A Christchurch Women's Prison inmate celebrated her graduation from a parenting course by having sex with her partner in a prison toilet.

An estimated 11 D.C. public school students are dropping out of the system each day and will fail to earn their high school diplomas, putting the city's graduation rate more than 10 percentage points below the national average, according to a new report

DOHA • The small things that you do will have a big impact in the world. This was what Ray Lane, the keynote speaker, told the graduates during the inaugural graduation of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, at the Education City yesterday.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Some leaders presented a plan they hope will prevent crime by reducing the school dropout rate. They want money put into pre-kindergarten programs to get children interested in education.