Fire safety education and smoke alarm installation programs are under way in Sumter and Lake City, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced recently.

27/08/2008 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría will launch the 2008 edition of OECD’s annual Education at a Glance at a news conference at 11.00 a.m. on 9 September 2008 in Paris.

Revelations that the 17-year-old daughter of Republican vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin is pregnant highlight the difficulties of getting American teens to just say "No," experts say.

Hispanic students continue to score below their non-Latino counterparts on statewide tests, prompting education initiatives to improve scores and slow a high school dropout rate that is higher than any other ethnic group in Idaho.

Franklin Smith had a wife and an infant son when he convinced a recruiter in Biloxi, Miss., that he wanted to be a Marine. For the recruiter, bringing in a family man like Smith was a dropout risk - even greater than recruiting someone with a criminal...