This is not the first time Catherine Pitt is able to put "high-school graduate" on her resumé. But it is the first time the 51-year-old British immigrant has been recognized for it.

Riverview School District faculty and school board members are torn on deciding whether or not graduation competency exams would be a positive step for the district and Pennsylvania.  read more »

Gov. Rendell has picked Joseph Torsella, the president and chief executive officer of Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, to head Pennsylvania's State Board of Education.

AUSTIN — State Board of Education members agreed today to move ahead on a proposed rule that would allow high school athletes to receive twice as much credit toward graduation as allowed under current state requirements.

Graduation rates are one of the main factors considered when determining the quality of universities, but they remain a work in progress for many higher education institutions. One criticism of the graduation-rate calculation in universities is that tr