Spellings: Do NCLB exams tax the testing industry?

(AP) -- Education Secretary Margaret Spellings summoned executives from testing companies and the College Board to a meeting Tuesday that focused on industry practices in the wake of a high-profile scoring error on the SAT college entrance exam.

Suit claims illegal use of recruitment database

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Defense Department is violating the privacy of millions of high school students nationwide with a detailed database it uses for military recruitment, a federal lawsuit filed Monday claims.

Maryland teacher named teacher of the year

WASHINGTON (AP) -- She may have just 15 students in her Maryland kindergarten class, but the students Kimberly Oliver teaches represent nearly every continent on the globe.

School board reinstates controversial program

UPPER ST. CLAIR, Pennsylvania (AP) -- An internationally recognized academic program has been reinstated by a school board two months after it was abolished for a curriculum that critics called anti-American and anti-Christian.

North Pole students return to classes

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Students were encouraged to return to North Pole Middle School Monday with the assurance that police would patrol the halls following the weekend arrest of six seventh-graders suspected of plotting a deadly attack.

College president's gains overshadowed by scandal

HOUSTON (AP) -- As president of Texas Southern University, Dr. Priscilla Slade was building a legacy -- nearly doubling enrollment, constructing new academic buildings and overhauling the financial aid system.

Education chief to look at kids left behind

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is pledging to scrutinize a loophole that allows states to exclude nearly 2 million student test scores under the No Child Left Behind Act.

No Dollar Left Behind?

(AP) -- Lew and Sharon Goldfarb went looking for a way to make some extra cash and help kids learn, too. They found both in President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act.

Diverging views on 'No Child' expectations

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Setting high expectations for students has become such a priority that Congress passed a law about it. Now schools must make sure all children succeed in math and reading, no matter what their language barrier or level of poverty or support at home.

Congress promises scrutiny of test scores

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional leaders and a former Bush Cabinet member said Tuesday that schools should stop excluding large numbers of minority students' test scores when they report progress under the No Child Left Behind law.

Students march in support of illegal immigrants

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Waving U.S. and Mexican flags, hundreds of high school students descended on the Colorado Capitol Wednesday for a rally in support of illegal immigrants.

NYC to recruit teachers using housing subsidy

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City plans to use housing subsidies of nearly $15,000 to recruit much-needed math, science and special education teachers to some of its toughest schools.

Philanthropist donates cruise ship to colleges

WARREN, Rhode Island (AP) -- Three colleges will share an unusual donation from a local philanthropist -- a 175-foot cruise ship that has been plying the Mississippi River.

China to train U.S. teachers in Chinese language

NEW YORK (AP) -- Calling Chinese "an important tool for the rest of the world," China's education minister announced a plan Wednesday to help train hundreds of U.S. educators in the language.

Law raises fears of more school segregation

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- Betty Sternberg is in charge of two school systems. One, scattered throughout the state, is rich and white. The other, isolated in seven large towns, is poor and minority.

'No Child' loophole misses millions of scores

Laquanya Agnew and Victoria Duncan share a desk, a love of reading and a passion for learning. But because of a loophole in the No Child Left Behind Act, one second-grader's score in Tennessee counts more than the other's.

Buckets used as bathrooms in school lockdown

INGLEWOOD, California (AP) -- A principal trying to prevent walkouts during immigration rallies inadvertently introduced a lockdown so strict that children weren't allowed to go to the bathroom, and instead had to use buckets in the classroom, an official said.

Students' ID numbers e-mailed to classmates

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) -- University of South Carolina officials are advising students to watch their credit reports after the Social Security numbers of as many as 1,400 students were mistakenly e-mailed to classmates.

Students cut class to march for immigrants

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- About 1,200 mostly youthful marchers paraded through downtown Portland, Oregon, Friday, demanding a more lenient U.S. immigration policy.

Omaha school district to split along racial lines

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- In a move decried by some as state-sponsored segregation, the Legislature voted Thursday to divide the Omaha school system into three districts -- one mostly black, one predominantly white and one largely Hispanic.